camerapapi wrote:
This is my humble take on this. A photographer is an artist, we do not have the canvas or brushes a painter has but we are still artists. We are also creative, we were when we were using the darkroom and we are now that we have the "digital darkroom."
AI is here to stay and I bet it is the future of ALL editing programs. More and more editors are incorporating AI into their software.
I have always been a fan of landscape photography and although I have been photographing landscapes for more than 50 years I still enjoy very much placing my camera on a tripod and exposing the beautiful scenery our Lord created for us. Nothing makes me more happy than to look at the beauty He created and with all my humble expertise I try to reproduce what I saw in a JPEG or RAW data. How many times I felt frustrated, especially when shooting slide film with those flat, unattractive skies mainly in winter? Many times, there was no way I could fix an otherwise interesting image. AI has changed that. I now have two choices, I can go with what I shot or I can improve what I saw with AI. Many times I go with AI and save the image. Enlargement? No issues, if good attention to details is paid and AI is not over used the image will look very natural.
I understand the purist, I used to be that way also but I cannot deny the improvements that AI has brought to my photography. As I said, we have choices and each one of us should do what pleases us.
To repeat myself, I am very happy using AI, not on all images and now I have new choices. I firmly believe that AI is here to stay.
This is my humble take on this. A photographer is ... (
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It's a photo! No, it's not, it's a composite! No, it's not, it's simply digital artistry! No it's not unless it's over 50% digitally enhanced. And on and on…
To me, a photo is a canvas to either be left intact or edited to suit MY vision and intent. Whether using selections in Camera Raw, Photoshop, Topaz or some other editing software, or using AI selectively, or keeping the SOOC image, the end result is what I seek. Whatever term a person might choose to call the resulting image is not a concern...