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Where is landscape photography headed?
Sep 1, 2023 09:09:58 #
Peteso
Loc: Blacks Hills
AI will continue to improve, but I don't think it is, or will be, a proxy for cameras and "real" photography. There are lots of examples where technology could have substituted for more tactile pursuits. For example, some of us (like me) who use word processing software extensively, still like using fountain pens. Technology has all but replaced cabinet makers, but woodworking is still popular. As long as thirty+ years ago, court reporters felt threatened by electronic and digital court reporting systems, but court reporters are still used in depositions and in most of our courts. In 2002, the first Megatrends book was written by John Naisbitt. One of the ten Megatrends was the reaction to "high-tech" would be "high-touch." In my opinion, the book was prophetic. So, relax my photographer friends! 
Sep 1, 2023 09:17:17 #
Peteso
Loc: Blacks Hills
That's a different question than the first post. I think the answer is sometimes yes, sometimes no. Some courts have gone to electronic reporting, but that has not replaced court reporters. Change is inevitable, but it's not an all or nothing proposition.
Sep 1, 2023 09:26:42 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I do a fair amount of AI posting and I would like to know a little more about how you made this image. Is it a three shot composite or did you use Generative Fill in Photoshop to create the birds?
This image is totally AI generated using Generative Fill. I wasn't trying to pass this off as a genuine photograph; just an example of what is coming. Sorry if I have offended anyone.
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Sep 1, 2023 09:28:38 #
Bill Hancock wrote:
Thanks for the replies, but my real question is, will the companies that hire photographers start taking the cheaper way out and start generating AI photos and stop using paid photographers? What are your thoughts?
In my opinion people will STILL want to have photographs of real places and real people.
Your make believe photograph looks fake to me. Yes, pretty features but they don't really seem to go along from the real life places I have seen geese and great blue herons. The water is too bright coming over the falls while it is too greenish for anywhere but some tropics. The photo reminds me of backlit pictures in a Chinese restaurant, pretty but not real.
I don't mean this as anything offensive to you personally but just answering your question.
Dennis
Sep 1, 2023 09:28:43 #
Bill Hancock wrote:
This image is totally AI generated using Generative Fill. I wasn't trying to pass this off as a genuine photograph; just an example of what is coming. Sorry if I have offended anyone.
If anyone was offended, that's their problem.
Sep 1, 2023 09:54:45 #
Sep 1, 2023 09:54:58 #
User ID wrote:
Sooner or later you will discover otherwise ... sadly for you, it seems like later, much later.
Says who? You? Pffft.
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Sep 1, 2023 09:57:48 #
Sep 1, 2023 10:07:37 #
Bill Hancock wrote:
Thanks for the replies, but my real question is, will the companies that hire photographers start taking the cheaper way out and start generating AI photos and stop using paid photographers? What are your thoughts?
Knowing some companies and observing others you are onto something. Likely most will stop using landscape and other photographers shortly.
The only time a photographer will be hired for such work is if they have a name that still has value.
Most artwork hung in buildings, offices etc. is really seldom looked at but is just there as inobtrusive background.
Sad this is the future it appears, even if the photo lacks realism if analyzed.
Sep 1, 2023 10:30:54 #
Rokko
Loc: Minneapolis
Reuss Griffiths wrote:
On first glance, it's an appealing image with inte... (show quote)
There is another problem: I think the AI put the wrong kind of birds in the water. In my experience Canada geese and herons like slow moving water. Water just down stream from a waterfall would be moving too fast for resting geese. It would also be moving too fast for the heron, which wants to grab motionless or non-moving prey in relatively clear water.
Sep 1, 2023 10:33:07 #
Rokko wrote:
There is another problem: I think the AI put the wrong kind of birds in the water. In my experience Canada geese and herons like slow moving water. Water just down stream from a waterfall would be moving too fast for resting geese. It would also be moving too fast for the heron, which wants to grab motionless or non-moving prey in relatively clear water.
Like everyone would know that?
I didn't.
Don't care either, nice picture.
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Sep 1, 2023 10:35:33 #
Longshadow wrote:
Like everyone would know that?
I didn't.
Don't care either, nice picture.
I didn't.
Don't care either, nice picture.
It’s the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Natural (Human) Intelligence.
Sep 1, 2023 10:37:37 #
Longshadow wrote:
Like everyone would know that?
I didn't.
Don't care either, nice picture.
I didn't.
Don't care either, nice picture.
Sep 1, 2023 10:43:05 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
Bill Hancock wrote:
I have been dabbling in AI photography for a little while now and it has made me wonder is landscape photography might be on the way out, by a paid photographer that is. I am curious to know what others think on the subject. I have displayed an AI photo for you guys to look at. I have not tried to do anything spectacular. I am just testing the waters, so to speak, to see what AI can do. What do you folks think?
Just does not look real to me.
Sep 1, 2023 10:53:27 #
Mac wrote:
It’s the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Natural (Human) Intelligence.
Okay.
Lots of things are different....
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