It is a time for extreme change in digital imaging - I think your prophesy is all too clear for many - whilst I mentioned adapting in a previous comment the challenges get harder each time!!!
Thank you Fil, I really value your comments. I am not a professional photographer - it looks to much like hard work! I am a hobby photographer and very few people comment on how changes in photo hardware and software make it easier and cheaper to take up photography as a SERIOUS hobby. Today, I bought my first SLR lenses to adapt to my OM-5. I found a new way to enjoy photography and I am giving new life to old, unloved gear. Very few people talk about how iPhones can get people interested in photography and graduate to a mirrorless camera. You are of the few that sees the value of technology and understand that it does not always mean instant death to some old school ways. Thank you. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks! Yeah, sometimes it takes a deep breath and a broader understanding to understand the landscape we are in. Great point about the cellphone being a gateway to a deeper hobby. Exactly right.
Thanks for the video and your research into the subject! I am a hobby photographer mostly landscapes. Looking for a picture that no see. So composure of a scene and using graduated filter sometime stacking filters trying to even out the light. Some say the only filter in landscape photography is a CPL. The rest can be done on the computer I think different. This in my style of photography and it works for me the and only person I am trying to please.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I don't quite get this AI fear. Photographs only mean something to people if they are in them! The irony for me is I still use film - I never really got on board with digital. Nothing against it at all - makes total sense to use digital. I just enjoy the film workflow. Problem is, nobody takes it seriously these days. They're just like "ah, how cute. Look he uses that weird novelty film stuff", when I am actually deadly serious about making great pictures!
Thanks for that. Looking into a recent photo competition it didn’t take long to realize that, although the content was different in every photo, the feel, tone and texture in 90% of the works was the same. Are we at a momentary place in time where technology = pasteurization and most viewers are drinking the same nonfat milk, but some like chocolate and others strawberry? Perhaps this is the future divide between commercial and fine art? Not sure myself, just wondering aloud.
Focussing hasn't been replaced by technology. Luckily it seems most imagery consumers are less and less discerning and the things "real" photographers used to worry about - decent exposure, focus are no longer pre-requisites for commerical success in the industry. And composition? WTF is that even? Admitedly the industry is much bigger than it was.
Oh Cock WTH am I going to do now? Pro here 40 years in the game. When ISDN came in we changed our game. Dupes were no longer being ordered at 30 a time. When Digital came in we changed our game. Got rid of all our processing gear and added digital cameras to our studio. When they got better we got rid of film cameras all together. When AI arrived we added digital creation to our studio. Adapt or die.
Yaaayy someone real out there.. I'm gettin on a bit now but still gettin' up early, packing a lunch with a flask of tea, driving 200 miles, climbing 1600', getting soaked and remembering to take me heart meds etc... ...and occasionally I get a keeper.. I love it.. Lets see AI replace that (or a 1959 Tak 55mm/f2) .. : )
A timely and thoughtful video and a breath of fresh air among all the doom mongers. I enjoyed the different formats, the tiny digicam footage had me laughing. Thank you.
Whether there will be many pro photographers within 10 years is very debatable. If the agencies I work for could stop paying me and use ai they will do.
non-professional opinion (rant/wall of text): the thing that worries me about the "AI" stuff is more short run. we have insane concentration of wealth and decision making power into the hands of the most grey, tasteless, talentless people I have ever seen. I.E. the "executive class" types. They love slop, because it's cheap, and they can't tell the difference. Due to their immense wealth and the mentality that come with such wealth, they believe that no one can tell the difference. That by itself would be whatever, except where is the middle to support people in the meantime? How many people are paying for portrait shoots of their kids? Prints of artistic photos? Books? Not people my age (mid 30s), very few of us have money for that. I suppose the wedding folks will largely always have jobs, but if that's the only way to make money, it'll get real crowded. The consequence is that the appeal of going to school to learn the craft and take on all that debt just won't be there and I just think it's a shame that a young person today looking to go to university to learn photography has a great number of reasons to do literally anything else (except other things that can be "replaced" by AI 🤢). Eventually this will pass (I hope) and things will normalize, but as per the whole Einstein vs people who will never get the chance quote, it's very possible we will lose out on generational talents because of how things are today.
@@FilNenna One can only hope that it goes the same way. I'm less convinced though. I have no doubt this garbage will pass, I just think there's going to be a lot of pain as it happens. NFTs faded because the bored ape people were going to get swindled one way or another. Many people will lose jobs before AI gets thrown where it belongs though (the bin).
All of the changes in photography, from Daguerre to digital, have required a lens (pinhole counts) and a light-sensitive receptor (sensor counts). With AI generated images, neither of these are needed. Eventually--and not that long from now--AI will have "absorbed" billions of images. IMO, this will end commercial photography.
It can only create a collage of what already exists. I think we will begin to ask each other where our pixels came from. Lens generated art will, I hope, be separated from this new type of graphic design.
After 35 years in digital design, I’ve fully embraced AI as a game-changer in my workflow. From generative fills in Lightroom and Photoshop to using ChatGPT for writing and even designing my own logos, AI has become a powerful creative tool. The illustrations and videos it produces are a constant source of inspiration, pushing my creativity in ways I never imagined. It’s an exciting new era, and I’m all in.
Of course, if the future proves me wrong, I'll delete the end of this video to save myself from embarrassment...
It is a time for extreme change in digital imaging - I think your prophesy is all too clear for many - whilst I mentioned adapting in a previous comment the challenges get harder each time!!!
Thank you Fil, I really value your comments. I am not a professional photographer - it looks to much like hard work! I am a hobby photographer and very few people comment on how changes in photo hardware and software make it easier and cheaper to take up photography as a SERIOUS hobby. Today, I bought my first SLR lenses to adapt to my OM-5. I found a new way to enjoy photography and I am giving new life to old, unloved gear.
Very few people talk about how iPhones can get people interested in photography and graduate to a mirrorless camera.
You are of the few that sees the value of technology and understand that it does not always mean instant death to some old school ways. Thank you. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks! Yeah, sometimes it takes a deep breath and a broader understanding to understand the landscape we are in. Great point about the cellphone being a gateway to a deeper hobby. Exactly right.
I love how you played with format ratios here 😂
That was the most fun I've had making a TH-cam video in a while!
Thanks for the video and your research into the subject! I am a hobby photographer mostly landscapes. Looking for a picture that no see. So composure of a scene and using graduated filter sometime stacking filters trying to even out the light. Some say the only filter in landscape photography is a CPL. The rest can be done on the computer I think different. This in my style of photography and it works for me the and only person I am trying to please.
Glad you found it interesting! Getting the photo you previsualize in real time with lens filters is very satisfying.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I don't quite get this AI fear. Photographs only mean something to people if they are in them! The irony for me is I still use film - I never really got on board with digital. Nothing against it at all - makes total sense to use digital. I just enjoy the film workflow. Problem is, nobody takes it seriously these days. They're just like "ah, how cute. Look he uses that weird novelty film stuff", when I am actually deadly serious about making great pictures!
"Photographs only mean something to people if they are in them!" Love it.
Thanks for that. Looking into a recent photo competition it didn’t take long to realize that, although the content was different in every photo, the feel, tone and texture in 90% of the works was the same. Are we at a momentary place in time where technology = pasteurization and most viewers are drinking the same nonfat milk, but some like chocolate and others strawberry? Perhaps this is the future divide between commercial and fine art? Not sure myself, just wondering aloud.
Finally someone that's not running around saying the sky is falling, the sky is falling. Thank you.
You are very welcome.
Photography is not what it used to be, it’s now something different !
Since a photograph is a material thing, photography is a TRADE, not a profession.
Focussing hasn't been replaced by technology.
Luckily it seems most imagery consumers are less and less discerning and the things "real" photographers used to worry about - decent exposure, focus are no longer pre-requisites for commerical success in the industry.
And composition? WTF is that even?
Admitedly the industry is much bigger than it was.
From what I've read in vintage magazine reader's comments, the pushback to auto-focusing cameras in the 1980s was huge!
Haha, I love the vertical video cut!
Oh Cock WTH am I going to do now? Pro here 40 years in the game. When ISDN came in we changed our game. Dupes were no longer being ordered at 30 a time. When Digital came in we changed our game. Got rid of all our processing gear and added digital cameras to our studio. When they got better we got rid of film cameras all together. When AI arrived we added digital creation to our studio. Adapt or die.
I'd love to hear the stories behind each transition. That would make for a great video...
Photography is going away faintly, the ultra sharp pictures are no longer needed.
Yaaayy someone real out there.. I'm gettin on a bit now but still gettin' up early, packing a lunch with a flask of tea, driving 200 miles, climbing 1600', getting soaked and remembering to take me heart meds etc... ...and occasionally I get a keeper.. I love it.. Lets see AI replace that (or a 1959 Tak 55mm/f2) .. : )
Love it! Thanks for the comment.
A timely and thoughtful video and a breath of fresh air among all the doom mongers. I enjoyed the different formats, the tiny digicam footage had me laughing. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it - it was lots of fun to make.
Whether there will be many pro photographers within 10 years is very debatable. If the agencies I work for could stop paying me and use ai they will do.
Professional photography died together with the Nikon F Mount.
non-professional opinion (rant/wall of text): the thing that worries me about the "AI" stuff is more short run. we have insane concentration of wealth and decision making power into the hands of the most grey, tasteless, talentless people I have ever seen. I.E. the "executive class" types. They love slop, because it's cheap, and they can't tell the difference. Due to their immense wealth and the mentality that come with such wealth, they believe that no one can tell the difference. That by itself would be whatever, except where is the middle to support people in the meantime? How many people are paying for portrait shoots of their kids? Prints of artistic photos? Books? Not people my age (mid 30s), very few of us have money for that. I suppose the wedding folks will largely always have jobs, but if that's the only way to make money, it'll get real crowded. The consequence is that the appeal of going to school to learn the craft and take on all that debt just won't be there and I just think it's a shame that a young person today looking to go to university to learn photography has a great number of reasons to do literally anything else (except other things that can be "replaced" by AI 🤢). Eventually this will pass (I hope) and things will normalize, but as per the whole Einstein vs people who will never get the chance quote, it's very possible we will lose out on generational talents because of how things are today.
Although it won't quite be the same, I pretty much ignored the NFT fad a few years back and it simply went away...
@@FilNenna One can only hope that it goes the same way. I'm less convinced though. I have no doubt this garbage will pass, I just think there's going to be a lot of pain as it happens. NFTs faded because the bored ape people were going to get swindled one way or another. Many people will lose jobs before AI gets thrown where it belongs though (the bin).
All of the changes in photography, from Daguerre to digital, have required a lens (pinhole counts) and a light-sensitive receptor (sensor counts). With AI generated images, neither of these are needed. Eventually--and not that long from now--AI will have "absorbed" billions of images. IMO, this will end commercial photography.
It can only create a collage of what already exists. I think we will begin to ask each other where our pixels came from. Lens generated art will, I hope, be separated from this new type of graphic design.
Good stuff.
Well spoken, sir!
Glad you found it interesting!
After 35 years in digital design, I’ve fully embraced AI as a game-changer in my workflow. From generative fills in Lightroom and Photoshop to using ChatGPT for writing and even designing my own logos, AI has become a powerful creative tool. The illustrations and videos it produces are a constant source of inspiration, pushing my creativity in ways I never imagined. It’s an exciting new era, and I’m all in.
love the video, cool
Thanks Ron - I appreciate the support!
Dead? No. Changing? Big time.
I think that you can safely say that the art of photography is dead. We are still taking pictures in their billions, though.
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Funny but true!
Nope it's not dead and won't be for a very long time.