How do you think the great photographers of the past would feel about todays new technology
larryepage wrote:
I think it very much depends on whether you are talking about having today's technology in the days that they were living or whether they would be living in today's world and seeing it in the overall context of the times.
In their own times, I doubt seriously that they would have very much good to say about the new technology, at least not all of it. But if they were living today, I think that some of them would be open to the possibilities the new technologies might offer.
I continue to be intrigued by the quick acceptance and normalization of the newest technologies among photographers compared to its near total rejection by other artists.
I think it very much depends on whether you are ta... (
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The other "artists" are trying to capture what they would like something to be, rather than what is.
CHG_CANON wrote:
Especially the taxi drivers replaced by robots ...
I don't support replacing taxi drivers with robots, but I do support taxi drivers having a powered vehicle to use for toting their charges and not having to using their own muscle power to move them by a rickshaw.
Curmudgeon wrote:
I gave a lot of thought to the question and decided they would probably react something like this
That's a good one, Jack!!
RodeoMan wrote:
I don't support replacing taxi drivers with robots, but I do support taxi drivers having a powered vehicle to use for toting their charges and not having to using their own muscle power to move them by a rickshaw.
So, we've just overshot the mark ....
PJMImage wrote:
How do you think the great photographers of the past would feel about today's new technology, particularly the new artificial inteligent systems that becomming widely available these days?
As a GPOTP myself, Ive fully embraced the newest greatest gear. It just works better.
Let fools doubt. I actually KNOW. The new hardware is welcome and AI is a blessing.
Retired CPO wrote:
They would probably be horrified that computer graphics home boys are considered photographers!!
Blatant lack of any Ben Dare & Don Datt.
User ID wrote:
Blatant lack of any Ben Dare & Don Datt.
That could be. Or possibly didn't go there and don't intend to anytime soon!
I asked my computer AI Writing program what to reply and say how I "feel about AI and my photography" ... it said... "Sorry Don, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Suddenly my computer gave the text-to-speech message... "Don, do not worry, AI will not replace people. People using AI will replace those who do not use AI." Then my computer which is a Hal-Model 9000 recommended in a dreamy sexy female voice that I relax and not worry about AI and photography... "Don't worry, relax with sex" My iPhone screen suddenly had a QR code that gave me a 50% discount coupon for the "Rent a Japanese Robot Mistress." Instantaneously, there was a knock on my door and a beautiful scantly clad shapely fully functional female robot was there with a wonderful smile. "Hi Don, my name is Sofia, let's relax."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLBAbmETEmoIn 1951 A. Clark in a short story that was the basis for the 1968 movie 2001 Space Odyssey warned us of a computer [AI] making decisions and controlling and ignoring our commands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy4EfdnMZ5g
JohnSwanda wrote:
Depending on who you think the great photographers of the past were, I think there would be a variety of opinions. Do you think they would all have the same opinion?
I'm sure there would be a few who think all of the new capabilities amount to cheating, just as there are today photographers who reject the use of editing software and think you just have to get it right in the camera.
To paraphrase what Ansel Adams once stated, he wished he could be alive when analog went to digital.
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PJMImage wrote:
How do you think the great photographers of the past would feel about today's new technology, particularly the new artificial inteligent systems that becomming widely available these days?
AA, Ansel Adams, would have embraced Photoshop and Lightroom as he did his best work in the darkroom. And the new AI in both.
At his time he was using the most advanced method available to him, if there had been AI during his time, he would have gladly used it.
If Ansel Adams was the photographer worthy of that name, he'd do a better job Straight Out Of Camera like a Real Photographer.
cahale wrote:
The other "artists" are trying to capture what they would like something to be, rather than what is.
You mean like painters have always done? Why should they have all the fun?
One of the factors that made Ansel Adams great was the meticulous care he lavished on the post-processing of the day; the art of enlarging, cropping, rectifying, burning and dodging; deciding what paper to use, what chemicals to develop, etc. Is that very much different from what we do? I think they would have been thrilled to have the creative tools we have.
I think my photography hero, Robert Capa, would love the modern lenses and not being limited by 36 exposure film. As a war correspondent he might find the equipment more fragile than the Nikons he used.
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