Second Thoughts on Photography and Ai
Should Photography shake hands with AI? Good question. A follow up question is, Will AI take the place of Creativity? I am in a place now that suggests, it depends. If one approaches photography, as a creative, that is a creative aspect of their use of a camera, in the development of their creating images, then I don't believe so. However if one is merely flooding the internet with pop up imagery, then yes only because there will be so much of the same it won't really affect creativity. Take a look at how the very earliest photographic images were taken; images were captured more by experimental means of whatever a lens could imprint and expose simply what was there. No conscious effort was made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in capturing this photo. It exists today exactly as it was taken and was never changed in any creative way. He didn't make any adjustments to it. The earliest saved photographic image (Heliograph on pewter plate) from 1826 or 1827 by Joseph Nicéphore