I'm happy that I'm only an amateur photographer,
otherwise I'd be scared....
I suppose, most pictures will still be taken by a camera in
the future - most people want to conserve memorable moments in
their life rather than create a different reality.
However, for many types of commercial illustrations, this
could be much easier and cheaper than the traditional way of
producing exactly the right image.
And if it becomes easy enough to do so, it wouldn't need an
image expert like a photographer to do this.
Of course, a good photographer could produce a much more
convincing image of the screws, for example, but how many users
of a website or readers of a catalogue would appreciate the
difference?
If it only takes the webmaster a few clicks to get the image
that does the job, why buy one from an image bank?
It's a slippery slope anyway, how much "reality" is left in a
heavily photoshopped picture we find in a travel catalogue for
example?
Laurenz
2012/5/18 Karl Shah-Jenner
<shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
a number of years back a former student sent me an image
asking what I thought. It was a landscape, a bit empty in
the middle, but I can see anyone who might have stood in
front of suc a vista might have wanted to capture it. The
foreground grass looked a bit ugly with daggy looking dead
bits and while the fence was typically rustic, it was an
imperfection that detracted from the beauty behind it. It
was either the fence or the landscape, but the two together
competed. I suggested they be cropped and the image be
handled more as a panorama than a standard proportioned
landscape. The light on the distant mountains was
captivating - I was surprised this student hadn't gone over
the top in photoshop cranking up the colours and pushing the
image toward the surreal as he was prone to doing..
I asked him where he shot it..
He emailed back saying no, he'd just downloaded Belnder and
spent 20 minutes learning how to use it, and the pic he sent
was the first image he'd been happy with.. I felt a fool,
but the realism was there.
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/05/15/photographers-youre-being-replaced-by-software/
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kind regards / mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Laurenz Bobke
