Thursday 10 December 2020

AI photo editing kills photographic talents. Change my mind.


So a few days ago I've had an interesting conversation with a fellow photographer, from which I know that he shoots and edits on mobile. He recently started with "astro photography", however, since I was wondering how he managed to take such detailed astro pictures like these on a smartphone camera, it looked kinda odd an out of place. I've taken a closer look and noticed that one of his pictures (taken at a different location) seems to have the exact same sky and clouds as the one he's taken a week before. Photo editing obviously. I asked him about it, and asked which software he used, turns out he had nearly no experience in photo editing, and used an automatic AI editing software on mobile. I don't blame him for knowing nothing about editing, that's okay, his decision. But I'm worried about the tools he's using, automatic photo editing designed with the intention to turn everything into a "professional photo" with the click of a button. I know that at first it seems to open up more possibilities for people with a creative mind without photoshop talents, however I think it doesn't. It might give them a headstart for a few designs and ideas, but these complex AI features are limited, and without photoshop (with endless possibilities) you'll end up running out of options, using the same AI design over and over (at least till the next update of the editor lol). And additionally, why'd these lazy creative minds (most cretive people are lazy, stop denying that fact) even bother to learn photoshop, if they have their filters? Effortless one tap editing kills the motivation to actually learn using photoshop, it keeps many people from expanding their horizons. And second, what's the point in giving a broad community of people these "special" possibilities? If all these pictures are edited with the same filters and algorithms by everyone, there'd actually be nothing special about their art anymore, it'd all be based on the same set of automatic filters and algorithms.This topic is in fact the same moral as the movie "The Incredibles" wanted to tell us,Quote: "when everyone is super, no one will be"I hope y'all understand my point, any interesting different opinions on this topic are very welcome in the comment section below... via /r/photography https://ift.tt/3423ytr

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