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The fallacy is in the belief that "photography" is solely defined by the simple act of capturing an accurate representation of reality. Optimizing for just thi

The fallacy is in the belief that "photography" is solely defined by the simple act of capturing an accurate representation of reality. Optimizing for just this aspect ignores the fact that perhaps i don't want to use photoshop to manip an image because i can get more desirable results organically using chemicals and my hands rather than a mouse. Photography is an art for many. It may be easy to mimic the results with digital editing, but it is much more difficult to discover new and unique things. For example, ML can mimic existing work: https://qz.com/495614/computers-can-now-paint-like-van-gogh-and-picasso/ https://qz.com/495614/computers-can-now-paint-like-van-gogh-... But ML is not a painter that will produce substantially meaningful, original work.

NovaS1X 10y ago
>The fallacy is in the belief that "photography" is solely defined by the simple act of capturing an accurate representation of reality. I wish I could upvote you twice. I never understand this mentality. And then on the same side people love the ultra-generic over-saturated tone-mapped HDR with 10-stop ND filter of a creek stuff you see on the explore page of Flickr every day. It's probably too much to ask of people who aren't photographers though. I can't blame people for thinking this way when the entire camera upgrade cycle is based on always more resolution and color accuracy. It's easier for companies to sell cameras this way.