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I want photos to be a record of my perception. I want them to match what I see in front of me as closely as possible. I do not care if data is mangled to make t
by mkaic 2y ago
I want photos to be a record of my perception. I want them to match what I see in front of me as closely as possible. I do not care if data is mangled to make this happen — in fact, the reason I love my iPhone's camera so much is because it mangles the raw sensor data so much. Apple's computational photography pipeline is state-of-the-art, and it is designed to make photos look as close to my perception as possible. All my favorite sunset photos have all been taken on my iPhone.
I do not like these AI photo-editing features. Or rather, I do not like the use of them, and will not be using them myself. The technology itself is stunning and exciting! But it entirely defeats the purpose of taking a photo for me. If someone blinks in a group picture, I want the blink to stay. If there's some obnoxious piece of garbage in the background, I want it to stay, because the whole point is for a photo to be a representation of reality consistent with my eyesight at the time it was taken.
I truly love candid photos. I am open to computational photography and even AI processing, but it should exclusively serve the goal of making the photo more candid. I feel that the AI photo editing features being pushed out these days will only make photos less candid.
- 9dev 2y agoIt’s funny, I’ve been photographing since my early youth (dodged a bullet and never went for the career path though), and I feel the complete opposite. In my opinion, the picture shows what I want it to show. You can never capture reality anyway: a photograph is never a single point in time, but rather a time frame during which the sensor is exposed to light, a short video, all frames overlaid in a single still shot, if you will. This can be so short that the image appears to be what your eyes see, but it is by definition always an approximation. What’s more, an approximation with parameters under the control of the photographer. Thus I, as the artist, get to decide what I want the image to be. If that means false color, a slow shutter speed with motion blur, or long exposure to light up a scene in the dark—or yes, AI edits—that’s my artistic freedom.
- mkaic 2y agoI can totally see where you are coming from — and I think I agree more in the context of purposefully artistic photography. however, for me personally most photography is not artistic, but documentary. totally support using all sorts of crazy techniques and manipulations for artistic expression tho!