Now that Adobe / Photoshop, Topaz, and several other software companies have started incorporating artificial intelligence in their software, where does the direction of Photography seem to be headed? It's so easy now to do sky replacements, element removal, pop-in new subject matter, is that truly photography or software AI design? I guess it's a bit of both depending on the outcome wanted. I must admit that it's kind of fun playing around with these new features, but as a primarily landscape shooter I truly have mixed feelings about altering final images. Of course we use these same programs to enhance our RAW files, but that is to adjust the image to our liking. I have no idea as to how many landscape shooters alter their images, but I suspect many do. As you look around all the millions of web images I can see a lot of over the top images that I have to believe have been altered by artificial intelligence .
I sit on the fence and definitely err on the side of truly realistic images. There are so many amazingly beautiful places in the world, I think it very important to shoot them as they really are. The skill set is between the photographers ears to find the perfect composition, lighting, and camera adjustments to make a compelling image. Do we really want to change the look and realism of these places. In graphic design these AI features make a lot of sense to me and help those creatives do their job easier and better. In landscape photography I don't think this is the case entirely . Using AI De-noise is a perfectly valid use of AI to clean up an image. Other new tools can be used to enhance the "original" image, but a total change, I'm not so sure! Where do you stand on the subject of Artificial Intelligence in Photography today? I would sure love to hear other opinions as AI is just in it's infancy. It's going to be an interesting future!
I sit on the fence and definitely err on the side of truly realistic images. There are so many amazingly beautiful places in the world, I think it very important to shoot them as they really are. The skill set is between the photographers ears to find the perfect composition, lighting, and camera adjustments to make a compelling image. Do we really want to change the look and realism of these places. In graphic design these AI features make a lot of sense to me and help those creatives do their job easier and better. In landscape photography I don't think this is the case entirely . Using AI De-noise is a perfectly valid use of AI to clean up an image. Other new tools can be used to enhance the "original" image, but a total change, I'm not so sure! Where do you stand on the subject of Artificial Intelligence in Photography today? I would sure love to hear other opinions as AI is just in it's infancy. It's going to be an interesting future!
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