How do you think the great photographers of the past would feel about todays new technology
Oct 17, 2023 17:51:58 #
cahale
Loc: San Angelo, TX
larryepage wrote:
I think it very much depends on whether you are ta... (show quote)
The other "artists" are trying to capture what they would like something to be, rather than what is.
Oct 17, 2023 18:40:55 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
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.
Oct 17, 2023 19:09:45 #
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!!
Oct 17, 2023 19:17:36 #
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 ....
Oct 17, 2023 23:33:40 #
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.
Oct 17, 2023 23:48:48 #
Retired CPO wrote:
They would probably be horrified that computer graphics home boys are considered photographers!!
Blatant lack of any Ben Dare & Don Datt.
Oct 18, 2023 01:04:16 #
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!
Oct 18, 2023 05:50:36 #
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=PLBAbmETEmo
In 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
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=PLBAbmETEmo
In 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
Oct 18, 2023 06:35:07 #
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.
Oct 18, 2023 06:38:01 #
To paraphrase what Ansel Adams once stated, he wished he could be alive when analog went to digital.
Oct 18, 2023 06:42:39 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
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.
Oct 18, 2023 08:19:48 #
If Ansel Adams was the photographer worthy of that name, he'd do a better job Straight Out Of Camera like a Real Photographer.
Oct 18, 2023 08:22:07 #
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?
Oct 18, 2023 09:00:52 #
maxlieberman
Loc: 19027
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.
Oct 18, 2023 09:20:58 #
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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