Badgertale Loc: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

I just watched a video on how AI is, or will be turning professional head-shot photographers' heads! Photographers will barely have to work to sell, and models will not have to put up with posing, wardrobe or makeup...LOL...

Thoughts. Opinions. A bit of fun banter.

https://fstoppers.com/portraits/are-ready-photography-about-change-forever-619693

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

At this point, the interest in learning how to photographically record something that is a good representation of what I see before me in person, is still too strong to abandon in favor of having a program/ap generate an amalgamated product while I veg out. Just not ready to trade this hobby for a programmers' substitute. (Keeping in mind, people photography is not something I've tried out.)

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Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Very interesting the science.
It most likely will go beyond that where your cell phone will contain the AI and generate all that is discussed here without sending it out. That is where I disagree that you will need to send it out, it will all be built in.
Come on Canon get with it in the next gen cameras in a couple of years. If a cell phone has the computing power in a small phone, surely a large camera body has plenty of room for the technology.

Canisdirus

Nothing stands still (pun).

Though the pace is quickening...and has been steadily for 500 years.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Good point.

stan0301 Loc: Colorado

Of course the equipment needs to work - but it boils down to (actually doing good work) - all you have to photograph is the interaction

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Whatever efficiently knocks out the headshots is good.

Klickitatdave Loc: Seattle Washington

One question that comes to mind is when AI completely takes over photo processing, and when AI is fully integrated into cameras, will there even exist a need for the human in between? Maybe then we will sit back and have AI create our product and have our robotic surrogates market and sell our photos😁👍.

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No hey problemo ! My product will still be waaaaay above and beyond the hoi polloi.

Klickitatdave Loc: Seattle Washington

kind of like "My AI is smarter than your AI"? The implications are potentially endless. I will have to put my AI on it and see what comes up. 😉

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

All that gloom and doom about the "END OF PHOTOGRAPHY" etc., is unmitigated nonsense. I don't think it's funny.

Some of the so-called headshots I have noticed, being passed off as portraiture, are nothing more than mug shots. Some have enhanced backgrounds, etc, but they have no character or important visual impact.

Someof this tech stuff reminds me of the person who purchased oneof those robotic vacuum cleaners and was pleased with it until it sucked in his pet hamster!

"Headshot" is a contemporary slang for a head shoulders portrait- of times used in corporate publicity, adverting, ir sometimes modeling agency usage. A good headshot involves the expertise of a k skilled photograher who can analyze the facial structure and determine an appropriate and flattering camera angle and lighting that is individualized for each subject. The next step is to work with the subject and elicit and capture good expressions, natural poses, and, good likeness. That is no job for an algorithm or a machine.

Craig Meyer Loc: Sparks, NV

Some applications like passport? ID "likeness" photos could use some automagical "curing." Especially since the button pushers are merely completing a documentary task and are likely to be unskilled photographically. Beyond these and similar niches, a photographically artistic approach yields the best results. Thanks, E. L., for your usual great professional perspective.

C
PS: I remember buying "Machine B&W Prints" to distribute with "New Hire" News Releases. They were the only option for a small department on a budget. And, really, they were beyond sufficient IF the original photo was professionally executed, and we were lucky enough to have an 8x10 negative. The reproduction value of the newspapers and most of the Trade Press magazines in the day weren't up to doing much more. Now, FORTUNE Magazine, for a C-Level announcement, got an expensive custom rendered portrait with a promise to run the story.
FORTUNE published announcements, had 3 in my day, always got me a raise or a spot bonus, from my little Division. And those portraits usually got a nice frame and found their way onto the homes of the execs. And the expense was never questioned.

C