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Canon R6II | RF 135mm f/1.8 Olympia, Washington #photography "Cognitive Synergy", a sculpture by William Frymire.

Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think this is the best image I've seen with this stock: all the colors are on display with some nice smooth gradients between them in areas. Makes it feel more "real."

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nikon FM3A | Nikkor 105mm f/2 | Kentmere 100 Lacey, Washington 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography #football "Line Work"

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nikon FM3A | Voigtlander 40mm f/2 | Portra 400 Lacey, Washington 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography Untitled

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Canon R6II | RF 135mm f/1.8 Olympia, Washington #photography Untitled

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Successful expression isn't necessarily artistic, that's just being intelligible. An artist is the generative agent of a creative act that expresses. No amount of input from a non-generative participant entitles them to creative credit, that belongs to the intelligence that actually made the image.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kind of a double fumble since the fireweed seems to me more subject than accent. My fumbling aside, it's a great image and I think fireweed is cool, haha.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I meant "always"! Man, fumbled the keyboard on that one. I feel like there are half a dozen places I have to disable auto-correct on my phone.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fireweed almost makes a great accent in photos.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Calling AI a tool while offloading the generative burden to it and crediting the work to the prompter is only possible due to AI's lack of personhood. With a human, that's criminal. Equating a prompter to a director of a collaborative work is, again, just lowering the bar to create false parity.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because it attempts to muddy the waters. Gen AI is Gen AI. Regardless of how much interaction one has via interface, the AI is the creative agent. A commissioner may have long or short conversation with the artist, but it doesn't change who the agent of the piece is.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sure, lower the bar enough and anything is a "skill". Lowering the bar doesn't make a better argument, though. Instead, it attempts to elevate a simple rote task, writing a phrase for an AI, to an artistic/creative one. This doesn't follow any more than a commissioner taking credit for a piece.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The question is one of creative provenance, not whether a thing was done or produced. Asking someone or something to do something for you isn't a skill, it's rudimentary language and it certainly doesn't qualify as a creative act. Credit belongs to the creative agent, the doer, not the requester.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe there is a functional difference between dodging, burning, or manual retouching/modification and generative add/remove: the former entails an artist continuing to use their skill and faculties to realize their vision, the latter is asking software to solve the artistic conundrum for you.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I never understood the appeal of generative add/remove. It seems to take away all the appeal of photography as an art practiced out in the world. The world is the way it is when you make an image and we choose how we work with that. If we're just going to AI it away, why bother going out to shoot?

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Canon R6II | RF 135mm f/1.8 #photography #dog "Pooch Under Porch Light"

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nikon FM3A | Voigtlander 40mm f/2 | Ektar 100 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography #caturday Untitled

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Correction: RF 135mm f/1.8

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Canon R6MkII | EF 135mm f/1.8 Olympia, Washington #photography Travis Pond's sculpture, "The Chimera": A part of the Percival Plinth Project. Photo uses inverted colors AND Tones to create a tonally correct image, using negative colors.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Canon R6II | RF 24-70 f/2.8+9 Stops ND+CPL Tumwater, Washington #photography #longexposure "A Dream of I-5"

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's only marginally related, but your predicament instantly reminded me of the Twilight Zone episode, "Time Enough At Last." Reading enthusiast survives the apocalypse and is finally able to do all the reading he could ever dream of, but immediately busts his glasses. The stuff of real nightmares.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was really surprised how well the deep blue tones and halation accented the waterscape concept. Azure seems cleaner to me, though some people say it has narrower dynamic range. DR aside, I think Azure will do whatever this is doing, but better given its--to me--more pleasing color balance.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nikon FA | Voigtlander 40mm Rescaled Lomography Turquoise Deschutes River, Washinton 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography #landscape "Deschutes"

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Much appreciated and thanks for the heads up about Simon. You're right, he has some killer shots!

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks, Pete! I redscaled a few rolls last year and never got around to the project. Seeing you killing the game with Azure made me pull them out of the freezer. Prob mess around with what I have left of the stock and then use what I learn on some Azure--which I think has better colors, overall.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nikon FA | Voigtlander 40mm f/2 Redscaled Lomography Turquoise Tumwater, Washington 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography #landscape Untitled

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

True that. Prob why I never snagged a roll of old Aerochrome. It's days are just too long passed. I don't think there is any level of preservation that will have anything remaining out there making images like the ones we remember. Glad we still got some few more years of 400H bangers, though.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm not a painter, but I used to draw and ran into the same issue larger pieces. Honestly, I run into it with photos as well. End of year, I print enough to fill a couple albums, all 4x6 or 8x10, but for as much as I want to print more, I can't justify it.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great shot and that cyan layer in the 400H really adds that last little bit to make the colors sing. Feel any pressure with 400H in the camera or just enjoying it while you have it?

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nikon FM3A | Nikkor 100-300mm | Delta 400 Yelm, Washington 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography @ilfordphoto.com Untitled

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nikon FM3A | Nikkor 100-300 f/5.6 | Delta 400 Yelm, Washington 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography #fridayfavourites Untitled

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nikon FM3A | Nikkor 105mm f/2 | Delta 400 Yelm, Washington 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography #fridayfavourites "We Were Soldier"

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Because the subject's color are distinct from the background, I actually think it works a bit better, it's easier to parse, in color.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hard to do a reflection shot that catches the eye these days, but you nailed it. Colors and their gradient kill, too. Nice shot, Gav.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nikon FM3A | Voigtlander 40mm f/2 | Delta 400 Olympia, Washington 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography #fridayfavourites @ilfordphoto.com "A Port for All Vessels"

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Less scanning and editing at least... right?

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've wanted a PROGRAF for years, but can't justify it, plus I do all my prints at the end of the year-not a printer maintenance friendly approach. I've used Graphic Communications in Oly, with great results, but they use FTP to receive files, which I'm not crazy about. Nations Photo Lab is good too.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Mamiya 7 | 80mm lens | Delta 3200 Yelm, Washington 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photograph #fridayfavourites Untitled

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nikon F6 | 24-70mm Nikkor G | Kentmere 400 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography #fridayfavourites @ilfordphoto.com "Looking Out at Me, Looking In at You"

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yeah, it is. Some of the most scenic I think.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It was indeed. Def worth getting out there for.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Truer words, never spoken.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Much appreciated, Peter. It doesn't happen often, but it's nice when you feel like you really captured a piece of what you saw on the mountain.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nikon FM3A | Voigtlander 40mm f/2 | Portra 400 Goat Rocks Wilderness, Washington 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography #landscape Untitled

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nikon FM3A | Nikkor 105mm AF DC | Kentmere 100 Lacey, Washington 🎞️ #believeinfilm #photography #fridayfavourites Untitled

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

True, nobody really knows what's outside out frames.

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Travis Croy @tcroy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not me. I can't think of another place in the frame to put it, that doesn't make it look worse. The bulk of the subject is where it needs to be compositionally and the edge isn't cutting anything off. Works for me. Still interesting to think about.

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