Topic for this collection was “landscapes dominated by clouds,” with a style intent of film photography. For these three images I did an extensive amount of editing in Photoshop, trying to see how far I could push them beyond the basic foundation that Midjourney provided. When using Midjourney I struggle constantly with two things: resolution and detail (without AI artifacts). To achieve both, these images were output from Midjourney as both Creative and Subtle upscales, and then combined to get the best parts of both and fed into Gigapixel to upscale to 4x. And then Photoshop ensued — lots and lots of Photoshop. Each image took between 8 and 12 hours to fully process (admittedly time-boxed for the sake of science). The verdict on whether or not these feel sharp and naturally detailed will have to come from the viewer.
Ultra-realistic film photography capturing an immense dust storm rolling across a red desert with massive dust clouds mixed with cirrus and wall clouds and fog. Bright daylight with open desert with saguaro cacti in the foreground. Hasselblad photography shot on Kodak Portra 400 35mm film with cool colors and low contrast natural light. Use blue and cyan and purple and gold colors. --no lightning --ar 7:3 --style raw --stylize 1000 --v 6
