The pursuit of being in the right place at the right time to capture the perfect sky no longer holds its former value when that very sky can be synthesized from colored pixels. When a dramatic reddish dawn or an approaching thunderstorm is conjured with a few strokes in Photoshop, or when a telephone receiver in a model’s hand is seamlessly swapped for a sneaker using Adobe Firefly with context-aware lighting adjustments, the photograph was, at best, merely raw material. Even the need for initial raw material is obsolete, as AI can generate sophisticated images entirely ex nihilo.Even the tangible, physical nature of the print offers no reliable refuge: A picture developed on photographic paper from a negative, held in the viewer's hand, might still originate from a digitally generated negative, or the photographer might have used analog means to re-photograph a digitally produced and printed image.In sharp contrast, painting remains a sanctuary of authenticity. Within a painting, the physical labor and the direct interaction of the artist with paint on a substrate are inherently stored and visible. The viewer holding a painted image recognizes the unique signature, the texture of the applied color, and the clear intentionality of the human creator behind it.While robots can wield a paintbrush, they cannot yet fully simulate the human touch. The immediate, non-reproducible trace of the human creator in the finished work remains the key differentiator. Traditional, handcrafted creation is reclaiming its significance.This shift in perception is already evident at art fairs which do not show specifically photographs: Visitors often walk past photographs but pause thoughtfully before paintings. In art, people are not seeking the perfect illusion; they are seeking the visible, verifiable, and therefore authentic trace of another human being.
This is your climactic point as a photographer. The moment life gets everything it can to tell you to give up. Well keep fighting and never give up as a photographer. You are a Viking with your mirrorless camera, a Spartan too. Now keep going and make your mother proud when she saw you 5 years old playing with a VHS camcorder. Fuck AI, it has no balls compared to a real authentic image maker which is you with a camera.
>>4485169I think its fun to take photos and if you don't think so it's not AIs fault, you would just find some other excuse like "theres too much competition" or something.If you can't take pictures for yourself, then go find a new hobby, or god forbid after your block of text a new profession
>>4485169Yeah okay. You do you
>>4485169Fuck off chatGPT slop poster.
It’s not dead the pursuit just changed.Within 1 year every image editing software on earth plus all mobile phone cameras will have in built aiEven this board will have to adapt as we enter the world of ALL images having some level of ai involvement.Even your default image opening in Lightroom will have some ai nonsense going on for noise reduction etc.
>>4485176>adapt to AI faked photographsThe only way forward is saying no. Sorry!
>>4485169>AI canNot generate a 24mp 14 bit raw file. Not generate a coherent film negative (35mm outresolves 8k projectors, 120 vastly so)A fake photo is fake. Prove it’s real. Problem solved.
man i forgot there was a whole year at least where this exact post would show up and linger for a few days before getting pruned. the response is the same as always. it's the same reason ai-generated artificial art is hollow: the soul of photography comes from its tie to a real event that happened in front of a person with lived experience and emotional qualia who perceived it and chose to record their perception
>>4485169none of that is truethat's like saying living is dead because now you can create video media
Good, stay in your pod faggot. I'm welding the door shut.
>>4485169>Photography is deadfacts you guys should all just quit so I can continue getting literally all of the work.
That's a funny thing to say considering they said the same thing about painting when photography happened. Photography will just go in a different direction now that AI has happened
>>4485169Sure thing man, I'm just gonna keep taking pictures I like and maybe other people like too. Hope you find something you can enjoy.
>>4485244Impressionism in painting came up when photography was born. Painting survived photography because painting contains more soul and people are looking for the human factor in things. But photography for other goals than reproduction is now dying.
>>4485261It just takes one guy to ask what photography can d o that AI can't. Maybe this is when photography really takes off as an artform
>>4485169It's dead for a long time already but that doesn't matter. Photography never was not-dead in a sense. Maybe a bit not-dead in the 2010s when you could easily get a big follower count on social media with mediocre photos. Or also if you count in the profession of a photographer being it at weddings, studios, advertisement, etc.Other than that it is and always was a hobby. A tool to capture memories and experiences. For some even a passion they fall in love with. But in any case the photos end up in your family album. Or now on hard drives. If AI can somehow even make it a better experience, sure why not.
>>4485169Yeah basically I agree, but I think saturation is the main thing that's devaluing it, ai or not. There are just too many pictures.Photoghraphy still have value in journalism, current events and sports, because it depicts something that actually happened
>>4485169>ai slop postWhat a shit thread.
This thread makes me REALLY glad I already made a name for myself so I could post AI pics and people would still like it becomes it comes from ME. The retards on /p/ too scared to even post shots here could never understand hehe.
>>4485169Photography is Photography... ai art is ai art. I don't believe they are the same. This is like when Photography came onto the scene and painting went it's separate way.
>>4485261I would reproduce with her if you know what I mean
>>4485169I print in darkroom only, so sounds like not my problem pal
>>4485169yes photography is deadyou should stop doing
