RE: An unexpected splash of criticism
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Taking criticism is hard my friend. I have taken classes on how to take criticism, so trust me I know :)
That said I have to agree with the person’s criticism after briefly looking at your portfolio. Times have changed. Now an average person can generate superlative enchantments with Lightroom. Add the AI enhancement and the iPhone photos enhanced will totally outperform your original work.
This is what I am talking about
And this is not particularly recent. This art has moved on my friend. And you have been left behind. If you take photos for yourself it’s cool and you can do whatever you want. But if you do it for the clients, today’s need is different.
Here is the good news. This is easy stuff so if you choose to catch up it’s easy to do.
Hope you don’t mind the way I wrote this. You asked for an opinion and I have given you one.
PS I still own a 5D Mark III and a lot of wide angle L- glass (I was shooting Landscapes mostly, never done portrait). Haven’t used it in ages. It’s too heavy a gear now for me to carry.
I'll follow this tutorial a little later on some of my work and see how it goes. :)
I was never one for high end retouching, I was always appreciated my subjects to look more human than artificial and perfect with flawless frequency separation and complexion.
I've just woken up, and am pretty sure this tutorial is ome aboitndodge and burn at a mixro level. I will check it out later today and will let you know how I go.
I am always looking to improve myself. The way you delivered your feedback was tactful and direct, no need to worry about hurting my feelings. :)
Much appreciated! I have struggled to give feedback in the past. Both here at hive and also in real life :)
Just skimmed through it, its not the process I thought it was - can probably be duplicated locally using SD upscale. Not sure how this will work at print resolutions, but for screen work it would be fine.
I guess this is also a point in history where the path of photography diverges - we either have images captured in camera (I do very little retouching - try to limit myself to what was available when I was learning to shoot film) - or, we have super crisp, super processed images.
I like photography because we capture photons and store them. It's an objective truth of a given segment of time. When it is pushed too far, that truth breaks down.
Given that I am planning an exhibition called "Myth" and have previously dabbled in AI image gen (even training a small model locally on my work) I think it will be interesting to go back and do "some AI" and get it into the same polynomial space that I can get my traditional images.
There is nothing special about that tutorial and as I said, it’s already outdated. It just showed up as first hit on YouTube. My point is AI re-touching is the new trend. Everyone is doing it so many clients expect it.
Photography as an art becomes a lost art when people are expecting to photograph them holding hand with Ed Sheeran at their graduation pictures! What can you say to that?
We live in a deluded society. I hope to be closer to those who are not.
Also, if photons were not bouncing off Eddie's visage (or whoever) and into the lens, it is at that point it ceased to be photography.