Let me just be clear here, most of the stuff made with AI is rubbish, especially the over-generated videos on YouTube, but like everything – it all gets better in time, some of the videos are super hard to work out if they are real or not, someone said to me recently ‘ I have seen a photo of a local seascape and I am not 100% sure if its real or is AI generated ‘ – Chances are if you have not seen a place looking like it does in the photo then, there’s a 99.9% chance its not going to be real.
When I lived in Penzance, the former Ford Garage – PZ Gallery as it was, were running a local landscape photography competition, the winning image – was what can only be described as a nuclear bomb over mount’s bay – it won – the photo was heavily edited and to my anger that image was chosen the winner.
Often people will use Lightroom’s black image (Vignetting) option to make it look cool, but a real photographer only really knows what should and can work and what cannot, ie understanding the light and more.
Besides all this the Adobe Photography plan has been increased by £5 a month making it £14.99 a month for all, its still great value, I dont use 10% of what both Photoshop and Lightroom can do, they both do far more than all the automated stuff like what Canva etc offer, it just takes more time, plus they have new features coming out all the time.
Recently in the latest Lightroom update there was a new feature added – AI noise reducer, and I have to say taking photographs handheld the other night from the local tractor run, the photos would be nothing if it was not for AI. – De-Noiser.
So there’s AI for making something look what is not possible, and then there is AI for doing technical in the background minimal tasks – such as reducing ‘noise’ ie using ISO too high to get the shot, which then adds noise aka dots to the image and then removing it to make the image work again.
