Actual analog portrait.
Fighting back against the dark scourge of computer generated images by applying our own skill sets and imaginations to actual, non-virtual subjects might be the best way to fight back. That, and making nice prints. Have a friend who considers himself or herself a photographer but is spending all their time in their basement hitting "generate" and waiting for software to decide what the software would like to show them next? Well, censure them by taking them off your "freinds list," cancelling that coffee date, and telling them how "disappointed" you are with their lapse in taste/judgement/ethics etc. Suggest that "real photographers" make their work with cameras, and real people, and real locations. Everything else is just a video game.
Programmers who scraped the web, stole "source" materials that never belonged to them and created tools to leverage their theft should be so ashamed of themselves. Content Criminals; for sure.
8 comments:
Right on!
I tried an ai image generator. It is quite fun, and allows you to produce pleasant illustrations and pictures: if you are reading a fantasy book, it will convert it to an illustrated fantasy book. But photography is a completely different (and much more rewarding) thing, it creates memories of real scenes you saw.
Having thousands of my own negatives and slides rapidly deteriorating, plus old prints and slides of my fathers that date back to the 1940s I look forward to being able to upload a basic scan of a badly scratched negative, complete with mould, yellow streaks and crease marks and saying to the AI recreate this image in a modern digital form, well lit and as if it was taken on a Leica SL. Make sure both eyes are open, everyone is smiling and it’s a beautiful picture.
I wouldn’t care that it’s not exactly the picture me or my father took, it will be the picture we envisaged taking when we pressed the shutter button all those years ago.
Beautiful portrait!
I played a bit with photoshop beta ai and this felt quite embarrassing. If this is what ai can deliver then no decent photographer should worry a bit. Keep going with those fine portraits!
Donald
Amen brother!!
Eric
Now that would be a great way to use AI!
For saving old negs and slides? I totally agree.
You can start doing this. Midjourney allows you to set a linked image as a model to start the generative process, for example.
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