So here’s the photo that was removed by mods today. This is Mel at the top of her cat tower that has a climb through bottom and she is holding on through the bottom and the top this photo was taken with an iPhone 16 Pro. It’s too bad. The mods do not recognize a real photo compared to AI #caturday

  • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    first off, beautiful cat.

    secondly, you’ve clearly doctored the image. focus blur just doesn’t look all blobby like that. what software did you use to touch it up? that may indicate why it was flagged as fabricated.

    edit - it looks a bit like the ‘depth of field’ feature that some samsung phones have. was it something like that? (i’m not being combative or accusatory just in case i sound that way - i just want to help if i can provide another valid perspective)

    • Jumi@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I took a few photos of my friend and her family a while ago with her iPhone and the photos looked like that too, very focused on the family and a blurry background.

    • four@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That would be my guess as well. The fake depth of field makes it look more fake. It’s probably a built-in feature of the iPhone, maybe even enabled by default. This one is actually pretty good for a fake, the border is pretty sharp, but, for example, it blurred the whiskers when it shouldn’t

      Anyway, my verdict is that it’s a real kitty and it deserves real smooches!

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      This is portrait mode on a smartphone. Pretty common photo manipulation, potentially done automatically without their knowledge even.

      • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Definitely a bokeh effect. Shallow DOF would still have captured the whiskers.

        But I don’t doubt it’s a ‘real’ photo. I don’t generally like the iPhone portrait mode because of its artificial DOF. I mean, unless I’m going for that — but it’s tricky because it pulls nonsense like the above photo.