John sat down beside the old horsetrack. The sound of clacking hooves had dissapeared months ago, along with the voices of people. He watched the clouds passing by at unnatural speed, churning and changing colors. Whatever it was that had brought this mysterious and sudden plight upon humanity, had a cruel ironic beauty in it. Maybe today his batch would finally show the promised effect. He stared at the jar. This must be it. The final remedy promised in the scrolls and books he had studied for so long. The sweet tea to heal them all and end this beautiful madness. He filled a cup … and drank it.
Sweet dolla tea from McDonald’s - I drink that.
Looks like AI slop upscaling on the background. Might be some sort of in-camera post processing.
There’s either a line of tall, single, white posts down the middle of the brown patch of dirt, or the distance fence posts got extended somehow.
yeah the background is fucky, like a sharpened blur effect or something
That’s some weird bokeh. What lens is this?
A small jpg with normal bokeh that was then fed into an AI “upscaler” that is desperately inventing details.
My guess is it’s digital processing, phones are increasingly baking it into certain photo modes.
It usually doesn’t look like that though.
Some weird or really old lenses can have effects like this though.
Da fuck is a bokeh? Sounds like a typo
Photography word for the out of focus bits. The design of the lens, shape and quantity is aperture blades, maximum aperture size, distance to the subject, all kinds of stuff make the blurry bits different. Phones often try to fake this with a portrait mode setting.
Ah, im assuming it is a word of non-english origin then. I’ll look it up, curious of the pronunciation
Iirc it’s Japanese but morphed to stop people pronouncing it boak
The bokeh makes no sense at all, it’s either added by a (terrible) smartphone software or, of course, good old AI slop.
