r/AccidentalRenaissance 2d ago

My parents during a group cooking class

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29.6k Upvotes

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u/InNeedOfSomething1 2d ago

🤌

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u/themegaapple 2d ago

They look like they belong in a 17th-century painting, not a cooking class.😍

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u/FullBurntToast 2d ago

They look like they’re about to negotiate peace between kingdoms, not cook dinner.

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u/Drednox 2d ago

The knives in their hands don't bode well for diplomatic success

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u/mrureaper 2d ago

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u/shackbleep 2d ago

Yup, that's where we are.

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u/crafty_and_kind 20h ago

Oh no, I wasn’t expecting r/redditinception today 😂! (edit: I thought i was making that subreddit up but it turns out it’s real! I wonder if it’s actually relevant to this moment 🤔…)

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u/Alarmed-Baseball-378 2d ago

Welcome. 😂

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u/cant_stop77 2d ago

This photo is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! Thank you for sharing it.

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u/AccomplishedClub6 2d ago

Great photo! But that woman in white needs to be taught how to properly grip a knife.

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u/shackbleep 1d ago

Hey, maybe she'll learn that in the cooking class you're currently seeing her in.

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u/AccomplishedClub6 1d ago

Hey apparently she's not being taught that? I don't see an instructor correcting a basic skill.

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u/storyofohno 8h ago

you don't see active teaching in a still photograph? gee, wild.

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u/elanuh 23h ago

Theres always that one person

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u/angry_stupid 2d ago

This is a perfect example for this sub. The lighting is incredible.

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u/PRAY___FOR___MOJO 2d ago

You have a lot of parents

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u/Excellent-Froyo-5195 2d ago

Thought this was a painting 🤌

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u/Life-Finding5331 2d ago

It's ai

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u/legends_never_die_1 2d ago

you are ai

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u/NotSoSalty 1d ago

You are a moron, what is and isn't AI should not and cannot rely upon your judgement, for you are a moron.

You will not grow from that, but I forgive how stupid you are.

Do not attempt to influence others, you do evil with this, to make others the same as yourself.

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u/legends_never_die_1 1d ago

you seem very salty for someone who is called "not so salty". i have also never judged anything about whether it is ai or not. i just gave this guy a taste of his own medicine.

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u/NotSoSalty 21h ago

You overestimate the power of how cringe you are. Good day to you. 

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u/legends_never_die_1 15h ago

yep...you are salty

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u/shackbleep 1d ago

Your mom wasn't AI last night.

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u/mmm_I_like_trees 1d ago

I thought ai

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u/Darnell2070 1d ago

Why would you think it's AI? You calling OP a liar?

What are the qualities of this photo that leads you to believe such a thing?

"Everything is AI because I'm an idiot"

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u/Seyrens 2d ago

Camera?

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u/d_amalthea 2d ago

I believe it was a Pixel 3 phone

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u/elmins 2d ago

You should get this printed and framed; It's a great composition

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u/FrVincentVattoli 1d ago

The skin tones and the texture confirms it. Wow!

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/apprehensive_anus 1d ago

agree the lighting is primary here but I think the sensor itself and the software processing on all smartphones these days should get at least a (tiny little bit) of credit as well. for whatever reason it chose the iso/shutter/aperture etc. that it did.

I love the little blurs of movement it captured as a result of those settings it chose. adds a lot of life to the pic in my humble opinion

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u/Cwmcwm 1d ago

Chiaroscuro

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u/PURELY_TO_VOTE 2d ago

Incredible photo. Incredible lighting, color, dynamism. And an incredible example of community.

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u/AbsintheRedux 2d ago

This is beautiful

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u/dream208 2d ago

The lighting is on the point.

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u/Nice_Community_9571 2d ago

This is really great .what a wonderful memory of your folks.
Big time frame up for that picture

(And your dad's outfit likely caused 3 women in that room to spontaneously get pregnant)

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u/Silkthorne 2d ago

This is so amazing that it looks planned! The lighting, the texture of the tomatoes and the red wine, the stern expressions, the people talking in the back -- it's all gorgeous!!

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u/the_summer_soldier 2d ago

I see some of these subreddit posts (I'm usually a reddit all browser) and sometimes I think, not so much in this one. However, here you nailed it (or whomever the photographer was). Thank you for sharing.

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u/Jdobbs626 2d ago

Ugh! So DRAMATIC!

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u/TheDrandLadyWeird 2d ago

THIS is why I joined r/accidentalrenaissance 🙌

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u/El_Ass_Eater 2d ago

Guessing this is in Spain, paellas in the back (the pan for making paella is also called a paella) and sangria in the foreground.

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u/d_amalthea 1d ago

Correct! This was a paella we took in Barcelona.

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u/IDidABoomBoooom 2d ago

Fantastic lighting.

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u/pr1nc3ss3mi3a 2d ago

rätatoúille

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u/Sea-Gas-7017 2d ago

The colors. The composition. The lighting! Mama mia 🤌

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u/Official_Bushs_Beans 2d ago

Yeah your dad is fucking dripped out 🔥

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u/Parudeesa_pakshi 2d ago

Thought this was AI generated for a sec

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u/FloofySnekWhiskers 2d ago

This is a perfect example of accidental renaissance. 

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u/sqplanetarium 2d ago

I see they're on team "I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food."

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u/SirDigbyChknCaesar 2d ago

The exquisite roll of paper towels in center frame

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u/Nice_Community_9571 1d ago

It's the Tomatoes man, the Tomatoes......

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u/VienettaOfficer 2d ago

Is this really a photo? Some of the detail looks drawn.

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u/torbird222 2d ago

This is SO GOOD 😍🤌🏻

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u/moyompya 2d ago

This reminds me of Selçuk

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u/piemakerdeadwaker 2d ago

I would frame it and put it on my wall!

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u/Difficult-Doubt1299 2d ago

Ok now THIS is actually accidental renaissances

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u/Rude-Dentist-2493 2d ago

The lighting and their body language tell such a perfect, joyful story.

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u/Icy_Explanation9742 2d ago

They are so cute!!! And like many others have said - perfect photo for this community! Do you remember what they were making here?

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u/d_amalthea 1d ago

Paella 🥘

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u/KyraAnderson13 2d ago

Rich people would hang that up on their walls! A print would be too expensive for the rest of us! Bellisima!❤️

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u/BrushKey4176 2d ago

love all them outfits, and the vibe too

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u/cosita91 2d ago

This photo starts yelling at you in Italian 🤣

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u/Beebeez 1d ago

“The Preparation of the Last Supper”

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u/ashtaydubs 1d ago

You should blow this up and frame it! It’s awesome

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u/KittenaSmittena 1d ago

This is one the best photos I’ve seen in here! Also - this looks like a murder mystery where everyone is already in character!!!!!

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u/Jethro_Jones8 1d ago

Darkest kitchen ever

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u/HiljaTrever 1d ago

For some reason the photo reminds me of Van Gogh's Potato Eaters

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u/throawaygotget 1d ago

what a crisp image! what did you shoot this on?

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u/d_amalthea 1d ago

It was whichever Pixel I had in 2019, I think a Pixel 3.

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u/throawaygotget 1d ago

It must be ur shooting technique then! The image came out superb 🙌

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u/Spuff_Monkee 1d ago

Looks like a caravaggio painting

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u/nanson3 1d ago

Excellent chiaroscuro 🤌

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u/Nibblitive 1d ago

This checks out

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u/sharmander15 1d ago

Print and frame this- for you and for them. What a treasure 💗

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u/ProfessionalCurve639 1d ago

Beautiful composition and chiaroscuro.

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u/gumdropsweetie 1d ago

This looks like a Sorolla or something with the light. Amazing!

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u/BibendumsBitch 2d ago

Not saying it’s filtered or edited in anyways to purposefully look like this, but also not not saying it

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u/Mach5Driver 2d ago

It looks like they "can only stay for two minutes." LOL

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u/LetThemEatQuake 1d ago

How many quarts is that stock pot?

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u/justdriftinaround 20h ago

This really is a gorgeous shot. Save it please.

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u/thisisausername1011 18h ago

That lighting goes hard

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u/WriteMyUsername8888 14h ago

Beautiful picture 

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u/Snokjakk 14h ago

Renaissance paintings about daily tasks of the common man ?

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u/Life-Finding5331 2d ago

There's no way that isn't ai

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u/Instatetragrammaton 2d ago

AI does not do motion blur (yet) as far as I know. That doesn't mean the phone camera did some heavy lifting to pull up any underexposed parts but that's more faking HDR than anything else.

What tells you that this is AI generated?

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u/ku20000 2d ago

OK. So I didn't think this was AI but it could be.
1. Why do this kitchen have 10 extremely large pans in the background hanging from the wall?
2. The gas range where the tall pot is situated is... quite large? I have never seen such a large gas burner.
Other details I couldn't find.

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u/-Ernie 2d ago
  1. Paella pans, commonly available in sizes up to 36-40 inches dia.

  2. Big burner for paella pans.

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u/Instatetragrammaton 2d ago

The pans are for sauces. This is a restaurant kitchen and for Italian food for a table for ten you want enough room.

The tall pot is used for stock. The reason to put it on a frame is so you can increase the distance between pot and flame so you get a properly controlled simmer. Yes, you waste heat but other ranges may still be too hot up close.

Not saying that this invalidates the observations but when I see AI mess up it's in different ways.

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u/Life-Finding5331 2d ago

Look at any details.

This is so clearly Ai, I can not believe this is even an argument

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u/Instatetragrammaton 2d ago

I did. This is honestly a pretty fun game!

AI would have made an absolute mess of the spices in the top right. It would just be a blob. There aren't too many fingers. The lettering on the cook's shirt does not look messed up.

The picture has a long shutter time and boosted ISO because of the lack of light, so you get noise and a lot of motion blur. AI trains on stock pictures and stuff that is not considered a failure by the photographer so that is why it usually has an unnatural smoothness - that and the upscaling. For fantasy art this is a nice coincidence, for simulating real pictures it's not. Yeah - I know about the ones that can replicate 2006 Canon Ixus selfies at high ISO but that is absolutely not the subject matter here ;)

The parts that are potentially suspicious are the person next to the old man in the front and the reflection on the stainless steel oven, but the wine glasses look slightly less than clean (probably because of fluid residue) and have pieces of fruit in them because they contain fruit punch. A wine glass AI would have trained on would not have this. The hood vent has some details I'm pretty sure AI would not consider.

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u/Life-Finding5331 1d ago

You and your brigades are so ridiculous. 

This picture is s fairly crude prompt for Ai akin to 'Paul Cèzanne mated with Norman Rockwell under Renaissance shading'.

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u/Instatetragrammaton 1d ago

I don't believe I can convince you - but I've never downvoted any post here on reddit, ever. I don't have a dozen alt accounts on VPNs to brigade either.

I am absolutely not a fan of AI for image generation - especially coupled with the "I made this" statement which is just ridiculous, but I can elaborate on why I think it's not AI.

I haven't seen any in depth analysis from you other than "just look at it" and I think you could support your argument better if you can provide a clear why. I think a consumer level generator like Midjourney can't do this yet and this subreddit isn't big enough to get fake internet points enough for other parties to be interested.

Perhaps it'd be a good idea to include in the sub rules that you need to provide more than one picture from a different angle - consistency is also difficult with prompting. That'd filter out the obvious cases.

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u/DirtyDoucher1991 2d ago

I don’t think this is real.

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u/KPostBeginning6698 2d ago

In a bunker?

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u/DunamisMax 2d ago

Sometimes you can just tell when a photo was taken with a really really expensive. Nice camera.

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u/Mediocre-Struggle641 2d ago

Petition to change sub name from "accidental renaissance" to "deliberate low light photography".