Field day:
Stanford University are developing camera -110205.html”>light field photography; which will apparently mean we will be able to switch the depth-of-field focus of an image, long after it was captured, using simply software. But there’s no sign – yet – of a sensor able to evaluate your image against an in- camera
database of the compositions used in “great photography”. Don’t laugh; basic automatic face-recognition technology is already inside the mass-market Adobe Photoshop
Elements v4.0, albeit only at the level of recognising basic face-shapes. How long before some bright spark decides to apply the principles to some basic picture-composition analysis? Future amateur photographers may be able to download a “Cartier-Bresson module” for their “Hot or Not? v1.0” Photoshop
plug-in, giving their image a “1-to-10” aesthetic judgement when compared to a database of the compositions and dark-light spacings of Cartier-Bresson ‘s best pictures. As Cartier-Bresson once said of photography: “Il n’y a que coincidences” (‘there are only coincidences’). Could software detect some repeating patterns in those coincidences?


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16 Jun 2006 at 19:40
[…] A while ago I blogged about the possibility that in future software could award your latest photograph a score from 1-to-10, based on how closely your composition resembled the ‘visual signature’ of a master photographer. Now, someone’s developed something very similar that works for music, or so they say (it’s not available for download, although doubtless there will be clones soon). They say: “It breaks songs down into 30 or so component parts including rhythm, melody, harmony, beat, cadence, timbre, pitch, and gives each a number. What they have found is just about all hit songs, no matter what genre, fit the same pattern.” […]