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How many people actually remember their wedding poses? I remember being bustled off to the side by the photographer to take our post-vows shots, but the actual

by SamBam 3y ago

How many people actually remember their wedding poses? I remember being bustled off to the side by the photographer to take our post-vows shots, but the actual poses? No way. So if you had taken a few of the low quality smartphone pictures that guests took (had smart phones been as ubiquitous when I was married) and a beautiful background of our wedding location, and asked the AI to create some gorgeous portraits of us, with just the right "golden hour" light and the right look of love in our eyes, would the final portraits tucked away in our album be any different? Would they even be better? It reminds me of the crowds of people in front of the Mona Lisa with their cameras out, so they can own their own, personal, blurry picture of the world's most photographed piece of art, instead of buying the perfectly-lit postcard in the gift shop. What's actually different about that much-ridiculed desire, vs. wanting to have the "authentic" photographs that that the photographer actually took (and then photoshopped, etc.).

rubslopes 3y ago
I'm 100% part of the group taking blurry pictures, but that's because I don't care at all about posting. I don't use Instagram or Facebook, all the pictures I take are for browsing my photo library later.
101008 3y ago
You named it yourself at the end. The difference is that the people took that photo. What's important is not the image itself, the arrangement of pixels, but what it means: for some people means achievign the dream of travel to Paris, for some other people it means "I was here, I see it live", etc. People don't take pictures because they are beautiful or well composed (well, most people), but because the meaning in their lives about that particular event. That's why I don't think people would like IA to improve their photos of their weddings, or so on. People don't make a wedding to have the perfect photo at sunset, but to have a nice event with people they love, and the photos are to capture that and nothing else. People's favourite photos (and not only from weddigns) are blurry, caught with friends, etc., because those pictures capture the feeling of a good moment.
- Wistar 3y ago
  Back when I was working on a photo-memories app in the early 2000s, a PM said, you know, the photo of the outside of dreary hotel near the beach isn’t about the hotel but about the hilarious hotel bar tender you and your friend were entertained by the night before the photo was taken.
burkaman 3y ago
I mean, why doesn't anyone do that now? Instead of hiring a photographer to come onsite and spend several tedious hours with you, just email them a single photo and let them Photoshop something good. It's not as cheap as AI, but it should be cheaper than paying for an in-person photographer, and the results can have any background you want. There's a difference between discovering an old photo and thinking "haha I don't remember taking this one, we looked so good" and seeing it and thinking "haha I don't remember taking this, oh right because it didn't happen". In the second case, there's no reason to even have a photo album or generate anything at wedding-time. Just store the single base photo, and then 50 years later when you want to show the grandkids you can just have the computer generate whatever they want to see.

by SamBam 3y ago

rubslopes 3y ago

I'm 100% part of the group taking blurry pictures, but that's because I don't care at all about posting. I don't use Instagram or Facebook, all the pictures I take are for browsing my photo library later.

101008 3y ago

You named it yourself at the end. The difference is that the people took that photo. What's important is not the image itself, the arrangement of pixels, but what it means: for some people means achievign the dream of travel to Paris, for some other people it means "I was here, I see it live", etc. People don't take pictures because they are beautiful or well composed (well, most people), but because the meaning in their lives about that particular event. That's why I don't think people would like IA to improve their photos of their weddings, or so on. People don't make a wedding to have the perfect photo at sunset, but to have a nice event with people they love, and the photos are to capture that and nothing else. People's favourite photos (and not only from weddigns) are blurry, caught with friends, etc., because those pictures capture the feeling of a good moment.

Wistar 3y ago
Back when I was working on a photo-memories app in the early 2000s, a PM said, you know, the photo of the outside of dreary hotel near the beach isn’t about the hotel but about the hilarious hotel bar tender you and your friend were entertained by the night before the photo was taken.

burkaman 3y ago

I mean, why doesn't anyone do that now? Instead of hiring a photographer to come onsite and spend several tedious hours with you, just email them a single photo and let them Photoshop something good. It's not as cheap as AI, but it should be cheaper than paying for an in-person photographer, and the results can have any background you want. There's a difference between discovering an old photo and thinking "haha I don't remember taking this one, we looked so good" and seeing it and thinking "haha I don't remember taking this, oh right because it didn't happen". In the second case, there's no reason to even have a photo album or generate anything at wedding-time. Just store the single base photo, and then 50 years later when you want to show the grandkids you can just have the computer generate whatever they want to see.