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 Posted: Fri Jul 26th, 2024 18:16
Eric



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 It’s all very impressive what can be achieved but the more I see of these images the more I feel it is distancing us all from photography.  I see this almost as a new art form, closer to digital illustration than digital photography.

I have seen the benefit from ‘replacing’ elements of a photograph…MY OWN photographs. One (or more) step beyond the traditional cloning out of distracting elements or introducing additional elements to better balance the image…..somewhat akin to the artistic licence afforded to a painter, when depicting his version of the landscape in front of him.


I disagree with Sally’s assertion that photography won’t be harmed by this new technique. 

In the long run it will rob up and coming photographers of their ‘seeing eye’. Images will come more from their imagination delegated to a computer to effect. 

Sure Da Vinci and Michelangelo had their apprentices who prepared much of the canvas for their masters to step in and finish off. I see a similar abdication of ownership with the AI. Origination would be from the photographers written instruction, rather than crafted by his own hand.

Our work will be the cheaper for the lack of complete involvement.

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