Happy Halloween

Photo Description - A cut out of Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel and Eko the Golden Cocker Spaniel edited onto a spooky white background of a blurred person behind them, with Halloween Trick or Treat written in red that's dripping and splattered as if it were wet paint

You've probably seen the latest craze to hit Instagram with the Disney AI trend. I'm not a great fan of AI and like to keep my photos looking as natural as possible, only occasionally using a filter if I think it'll improve the colours

But I had to give it a go for some Halloween pics of the boys, my editing skills aren't that brilliant when it comes to photo shop as seen by our opening photo

I've just not had the time this year to take any photos of the boys with Halloween props, but I was able to spend some time in the early hours of the morning playing around using the Bing AI app to see what I could achieve

The results were very mixed indeed and it took me many different variations of prompts to get Eko's face markings looking vaguely like him, with Boris being black his images were fairly easy to achieve

Photo Description - Cartoon character of Eko the Golden Cocker Spaniel in a dark spooky woodland scene with carved pumpkins around him and glowing orange through the trees

Weirdly I only managed to achieve one cute image of Eko (above) whereas I was spoilt for choice for images of Boris as so many cute ones came up, although a fair few were of American Black Cockers, which I dismissed but we got there in the end

Photo Description - A cartoon character of Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel painted as a skeleton sitting on a deck with three carved pumpkins

Photo Description - A Disney type fantasy cartoon character of Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel wearing a black witches hat in a spooky scene surrounded by carved pumpkins with a spooky house on a hill in the background 

Photo Description - A cartoon character of Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel wearing a black witches hat in a spooky scene surrounded by carved pumpkins and bats flying around

Photo Description - A cartoon character of Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel wearing a black witches hat in a spooky scene surrounded by a carved pumpkin, a witches caldron, a witches broomstick and a skull with a candle on top, the background looks like a garden lawn

Strangely all the other images I made of Eko were totally different, from his first one, it was as if the AI app somehow knew just what a cheeky little devil he is, Eko's images were a lot more sinister looking but I really loved them

Photo Description - A head shot of a sinister cartoon image of Eko the Golden Cocker Spaniel with his hair sticking up all over the place and huge wide eyed painted black around them, to me he looks very much like an evil clown

Photo Description - A partial head shot of a sinister cartoon image of Eko the Golden Cocker Spaniel with the top of his face painted to resemble a skull, and no sign of his lower jaw or body, there are also spooky pumpkin lanterns behind him

Photo Description - A full head shot of a sinister cartoon image of Eko the Golden Cocker Spaniel with his face again painted to resemble a skull, but it's a lot less sinister looking than the previous image 

Photo Description - A head shot of a sinister cartoon image of Eko the Golden Cocker Spaniel with what looks like twigs sticking out of his head, he has huge white eyes painted black around them, with a soft white filter around him that makes him look very much like an evil clown

It was so odd though especially as the only prompt change was the individual colour of each dog, I then tried again with Boris as I loved Eko's images so much and hoped to get more of the same, but again Boris came up with yet more cute images

I hope you love these images as much as I enjoyed making them, I think they'll make fabulous Jigsaw puzzles this week, if you have a favourite we'd love to know

It's all about personal taste I guess, I think the reason I loved Eko's images more than Boris's images is that Eko's were quite clearly fantasy images and so clear and precise

I won't be embracing the use of AI in my photos anytime soon, I much prefer a natural looking shot, so often you see what at first looks like a truly amazing photo then the photographer shows the before and after and you realise it resembles nothing like the original photo

Dawn, Boris & Eko xxx 

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