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Fashion Photography, Starting Out

Fashion photography offers you the opportunity to live an exciting lifestyle, while traveling all over the world. Fashion photography can be found in magazines, on the internet, on the television and other forms of media. The marketing industry is now packed with fashion models selling a number of concepts and products by various companies, and all these photographs have been taken by a fashion photographer. The glamour and the glitz aside, the world of fashion photography consists of very long preparation hours, and you also need to possess certain skills in order to be successful.

To those new fashion photographers, the industry may seem like the perfect place to begin all the exciting adventures that will take you all over the world. However, the fashion photography industry doesn’t only consist of meeting beautiful models and famous people, or just taking pictures. You should know that for every successful and famous fashion photographers, there are many more that spend a number of years waiting to have their first big photo shoot. Because of this long wait, there are many persons who ultimately give up while others continue pushing forward until they become successful. If you are interested in fashion photography, you should bear the following tips in mind.

You first need to take time to learn the industry of fashion photography. This is the part of the process that causes a number of aspiring fashion photographers to fail. They are caught up with all the glitz and glamour of the industry that they forget the fundamentals of photography that help make a photo shoot perfect. That is to say that they focus more on looking good, than actually having a good shoot. There is no limit to learning; as such, you need to continually study your craft so that you will be able to excel at it.

You will also need the correct photography equipment in order to be a successful fashion photographer as well as backup equipment. The truth is that there is no way you can be an accomplished fashion photographer without being able to afford the equipment. Cameras are very expensive, and each year a new model is released. In order for you to take quality photographs you will need an excellent lighting system, along with that very good camera. Overall the expense can seam daunting at first, but a client isn’t going to hire you without knowing you can produce consistent work. Your skills, your team, and your equipment are key. Don’t go out an buy everything all at once however, you have some opportunity to grow into it while you waiting for that break and building those skills

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Bacterial Wisdom As Template for Artificial Free Will

If any genuine “free will” exists, it is at the level of the “I-ness” of a system, the decision making routine, that it comes into play. Before we dive into the technicalities of this issue, let’s first try to brainstorm on what can be understood by “free will”. Although intuitively we “know” what “free will” is, just as we know what consciousness is,it is extremely hard to define it in words. Let’s try to build an ontology “free will” by reciting its features and by drawing the borders of this concept from the notions of what it is not.

I followed a very interesting discussion on the issue of free will and whether it is needed in AI, which I will neither repeat nor summarise here, but a number of striking concepts of which I will use in this essay. I do not claim to have come up with those concepts myself nor do I claim to be an expert on the issue, but I believe that I can add some interesting concepts to the discussion deriving from Ben Jacob’s “Bacterial Wisdom”, “Global Brains” and “Societies-of-Minds”. I will also propose to incorporate an artificial functional mimic of “Free Will” in a Webmind such as the AWWWARENet (Artificial World Wide Web Awareness Resource Engine Net).

A number of concepts stood out above the noise of the aforementioned discussion, which I’ll mention here as features (and non-features) of the “free will ontology”:

“Choice, override, randomness, unpredictability, (non)determination, chaotic, (non)causality and evolution”.

Indeed, for a “Will” or decision-taking routine to be “free”, it must be able to override those possible decisions, which are “causality-determined”. In Goertzel´s Webmind the discriminating faculty is the AttentionBroker routine). In the AWWWARENet, the AttentionBroker presents its conclusions, what course of action is to be taken as being the most rational, as having the highest probability of success, to the I.I.I (Identity,Initiative and Illusion generating routine). In as far as the system has an “override” function, the system appears to be endowed with a faculty of “choice” to an outside observer of the system.

The need for a random-picking faculty arises, when the AttentionBroker present the I.I.I-routine with more than one equally likely options i.e. options with identical priorities.

The issue becomes more poignant, when due to a scarcity of resources or time imposed resource constraints not all options can be carried out simultaneously or worse are mutually exclusive i.e. some must be sacrificed at the expense of others.

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