RE: An unexpected splash of criticism
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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There is nothing special about that tutorial and as I said, it’s already outdated.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.