Impact of AI on Portrait Photography

[amirm]

I am attending Axpona as Press/content creator. They asked me for a headshot. I created one for AES a couple of years ago. But thought that is not the current look and I need to create a new one. Couldn't put my finger on why I thought the old look was wrong. Tony here, articulates so well here. That people don't like AI created images. And now, images that look like AI, even though they are not! It is a very good watch:

 

[DVDdoug]

Interesting... and strange...

They asked me for a headshot. I created one for AES a couple of years ago.

What's wrong with using your avatar, Amir?



...In the 80's I worked for Pizza Time Theater, the company that ran Chuck E. Cheese. I worked where they made the animatronics. When they took the picture for my badge somebody stuck a silly straw hat on my head and they actually used it on my ID! That was a fun place to work! Good parties, free video games, a certificate for game tokens with every paycheck, and a discount at the restaurants, and big JBL speakers playing rock music in the manufacturing area and stockroom.

 

[Chrispy]

Just saw a FB post a professional photographer I know (John Shafer) just made

"I just unfriended another person for posting AI images. AI imagery and writing are unethical on so many levels. When you use AI to write, make images or videos, you are disrespecting creative people and feeding the billionaire art theft machine. It's lazy and offensive. Stop it."

 

[Somafunk]

On YouTube every single thumbnail looks a.i. generated and they all look the same/appear to be tampered with

I don’t want that, I want genuine content and pictures rather than this saccharine sweet shite

 

[Chrispy]

On YouTube every single thumbnail looks a.i. generated and they all look the same/appear to be tampered with

I don’t want that, I want genuine content and pictures rather than this saccharine sweet shite

Yep, seems that's fairly prolific now....sometimes it is just a thumb from the video, but not much.

 

[amirm]

On YouTube every single thumbnail looks a.i. generated and they all look the same/appear to be tampered with

On my feed, about 10% are that way. I immediately ask Youtube to no longer recommend them.

 

[amirm]

What's wrong with using your avatar, Amir?

Now, that is a thought! Likely that would be a better fit as that is how people kind of know me.

To wit, this is how someone commented about my on my Palmer Youtube Video linked to on another forum:

"a thoughtful analysis from an affable fellow I assumed from his geisha disguise would be an insufferable klugscheisser like myself"

 

[Chrispy]

On my feed, about 10% are that way. I immediately ask Youtube to no longer recommend them.

Could well depend on how well your list is manicured

 

[Somafunk]

On my feed, about 10% are that way. I immediately ask Youtube to no longer recommend

I’ve realised that it’s utterly pointless to ask YouTube to show less Shorts (never viewed a single short) , or when I click on a not interested or show less button and receive the “got it, we’ll tune your recommendations “ nonsense
No they won’t, they don’t give a shite….welcome to the world of enshittification where we see how much you will put up with

 

[DVDdoug]

klugscheisser

I had to Google that word!

 

[tineared]

Amir headshot

 

[Ilraptoria]

An interesting video. The photographer’s suggestion toward relatively limited editing in portraiture has been a standard practice in my workflow (I do freelance work, part of which has included headshots, though they don’t predominate in my work). I never felt drawn toward high dynamic range (HDR) photography, and I use “skin-smoothing” tools sparingly.

Taking an approach toward the more “natural” got me a few gigs from persons who didn’t want a “processed”, ”artificial”, or otherwise “cringe” look to their photographs. I of course lost (to my pleasure) gigs from folks who did want a more processed look to their photos.

My tendency toward persons who are comfortable with zero to near-zero editing in their headshots (or other images) resembles my disposition when it comes to audio devices such as pre-amplifiers, amplifiers, DACS, and so forth. I expect them to preserve to the greatest extent possible the integrity of whatever audio signal or information they receive or pass (please forgive any imprecision in my terms–I’m not trained in engineering).

 

[Chrispy]

I’ve realised that it’s utterly pointless to ask YouTube to show less Shorts (never viewed a single short) , or when I click on a not interested or show less button and receive the “got it, we’ll tune your recommendations “ nonsense
No they won’t, they don’t give a shite….welcome to the world of enshittification where we see how much you will put up with

The reels feature has much enshittification.

 

[AA63]

Hmmm. Trends are an interesting topic, and that is the point of the vid - not specifically about AI.

To that point, most things that are publicly overexposed (or massively adopte ie; are trends) fall out of the lexicon in an almost predictable time frame, and the "next" that follows is immediately "explained" as it's antidote (which in itself is dictated by corporations, but I digress).

So I have mixed feelings about this being pinned on AI generated (or edited) content, as I did when sampling and daws came to music. Yes there will be slop (oh look a trendy cringe word), but that is not the fault of the technology - it is always the people who use it. And in here lies the rub - while we have the slop, we also get new sets of people who might never have had the opportunity/chance to explore, or even achieve decent results without them be it due to time/life/finance etc., or could just never hold a camera without it shaking and have no clue as to what clothes go with what in order to achieve a mood. I do not discount the roles (or artistic value) of a producer that didn't authentically create, but rather chose.

 

[mhardy6647]

This thread is making me think of Philippe Halsman for some reason.

 

[sam_adams]

They asked me for a headshot.

Here you go.

 

[mhardy6647]

^^^ that is a great photograph! ... and, no, I am not going all Eddie Haskell here.