The Hidden And Passionate Photographers of YouTube

[@CourtneyVictoria]

Thank you, it's such a pleasure to be featured in one of your videos! A great selection of photographers and work here alongside a thought-provoking topic.

[@heikostueber]

Love your videos and photos.

[@ZACHDOBSONPHOTO]

I love the message of this video! AI will never capture the spirit of the people who are out creating in the real world. So honored to be mentioned alongside these talented photographers! Thanks for the good work you do for our community!

[@timjamiesonphotos]

Thanks so much for featuring my channel! A lovely selection of photographers and a very inspiring video - AI will never compare to human creativity :)

[@ThePhotographicEye]

My pleasure Tim - glad to :D

[@oneeyedphotographer]

I know Robert Jamieson, an Australian chessplayer. He pronounces his surname differently from Alex. Do you?

[@hobologna]

AI is literally human creativity.

[@timjamiesonphotos]

@@oneeyedphotographer Alex got it spot on!

[@sroughto]

The moment you mentioned Courtney Victoria, I hit Like on your video. I always look forward to Courtney’s videos. Her sense of humor and enthusiasm are a breath of fresh air. And then I thought, have you seen Sarah Lyndsay? And there she was! So cool. Well done Alex.

[@TL-xw6fh]

I have to disagree with you on Courtney. I do like her images very much and especially how she made a great image out of something very mundane. Most importantly, we have to create images we like for ourselves rather than aiming to please the masses. I do agree that her enthusiasm is wonderful, and great example to all fellow photographers who focus on camera gear only. Enjoy your hobby!

[@sroughto]

Sounds like we’re in agreement.

[@alangardner8596]

Nice to see Courtney getting a mention. I don't think that her photography is brilliant but her enthusiasm and trials to get a good photo are brilliant. Well worth a watch.

[@alangardner8596]

@@denismurphy31 There's nothing wrong with her photography, she is talented but just not in the top league yet.

[@johnabbott5097]

I have been doing photography for 50 years. I eat,shit and breath photography. I try and learn something new everyday about this craft. Books,videos,lectures etc. If it wasn’t fun and challenging I wouldn’t still be involved for this long. I also have other crafts that keep me busy. But there is something about stopping time that draws me in,100%!!! Keep up the information!

[@Dan-C-71]

Courtney is a real breath of fresh air, I just lover her awkward quirkiness.

[@Giles29]

It will never replace the feeling of seeing an amazing scene and sharing the experience with others.

[@robgutkowski7141]

Courtney Victoria's channel gives me a lot of joy, and Henry Turner's enthusiasm is infectious. I also really enjoy Bryan Birks channel for his thoughtful reflections on image making , and his pursuit of attaining not merely technical perfection, but the soul and humanity of the subjects within that image.

[@davidpearson3304]

Henry is awesome. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone with his enthusiasm and positivity.

[@sarahlyndsay]

Incredible video! Feeling so inspired after watching this and thank you so much for the feature Alex! 💛💛💛

[@ThePhotographicEye]

My pleasure Sarah - you'd been suggested in the comments here before

[@patford9943]

Alex, you are right on the money with your comments! AI will never impart the passion of capturing a photo that moves people. Your channel is inspiring because you present the why and passion of photography rather than just the nuts and bolts of making an image.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@mortenthesbl5535]

So glad to see that you picked out Ari and Courtney. They really inspire through their videos.

[@TheOneAft]

So cool that you mentioned Courtney. I love her videos that are very originals. 😃 I share your thoughts about A. I.

[@Ratsters]

Passion, you nailed it with one single word! PASSION.... why else would I spend an afternoon with my Muse in my studio, shooting her beauty and soul, why else would I walk the forest, the beaches, and the streets of my city.... not just to create pretty pictures? But to be out there, with people, or alone if all that matter.... but to feel HUMAN and live my PASSION for photography. Thank you soooo much for what you do, you are an inspiration. Please don't stop, we also share your passion with your videos. AI, will become a tool, just like any other tools that humans have at their disposal, but PASSION cannot be replaced, it is what makes us HUMAN, it drives us to go beyond any barriers... We are human, and we seek other humans to share our PASSIONS! Cheers!

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Awesome, thank you.

[@feliperojas-doomride]

Simon D'entremont is another youtuber worth checking out. He is more technically inclined, but very engaging, knowledgeable, and most importantly passionate about photography and teaching

[@andystiller3793]

Thank you for another great video. I already follow a couple of the channels you mentioned. Many of the photography channels i follow are more about seeing the world, enjoyment and fun. For me the biggest thing that AI can't replace is the love of being creative and the memories of events and characters.

[@TravisHenson777]

I appreciate what you do. Your channel is my constant reminder that it’s not all about equipment and gear. Every time I watch one of your videos, I come away feeling lighter, more free, and more excited to experiment. Thanks man

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you for watching.

[@LisaFrostPhoto]

I think it could help us to focus on sharing the stories of photos more, whether that's by vlogging, blogging or just writing more detailed descriptions on social media, which as you say is what AI can't replicate. Lovely to see you giving Courtney a plug!

[@LisaFrostPhoto]

Also creating a series of photos to tell stories rather than just individual images.

[@ChildlessCatMan]

I can't thank you enough for your videos. I watch lots of You Tube videos to learn the techniques of photography and composition. But I always go back to your videos, because they are about the soul and passion of photography. You are a master photography, but an even better educator and motivator. Keep up the good work!

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Wow thank you.

[@prilljazzatlanta5070]

I love photography because i love art but im not an artist. But i can use photography as a way to indicate my taste in art and my influences. I find that very satisfying

[@jeff8289]

Thanks Alex. I love the Courtney Victoria channel! She puts the fun back in photography. I remember the mystery of seeing my first print develop in the tray. It was amazing to see. Ansel Adams said the first thing a photographer must do is to want to go out and photograph. The desire must be there. Many of these photographers inspire you to just go out and do it, mistakes and all. BTW, I just signed up. ;-)

[@AmyDangRabbit]

I’ve been sharing my work online for over 10 years, and I love to connect with other artists and photographers as well. Can AI ever replace passion and sharing and friendship and admiration… if so, we are surely a long way off from it. Thanks for sharing this work and your thoughts. ❤

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you for watching

[@sbai4319]

The first channel I tuned into was The Art of Photography. Then was followed by Sean Tucker,Thomas Heaton and many more (including yourself) I am proud to be a part of a creative and passionate community of like minded people.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

That’s awesome. Thank you

[@jo_toys93]

Great video! Thank you for sharing and also sharing other great photographers channels to grow the photography community!

[@jpsteiner2]

Thank you the links to other channels. I don’t worry about AI. For me, it’s the journey, not the destination. AI can and probably does bake the perfect cookie. That doesn’t stop me from enjoying the process of baking cookies. Same goes for photography.

[@charlienzcharlie]

Enjoyed with a 👍🏼, as an amateur photographer (welder by day) I find that photographs shared create peace and calm, the recipient will fly into a conversation about the beauty of our world etc.

[@scottandlindae3803]

I started watching courtney about a year ago, her energy sells her photos. Glad you gave her a shout out.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

She is great ☺️

[@RickStillings]

I was having this same discussion with a fellow artist/photographer the other night...I have spent my entire (the job that pays the bills) 35 yr career working in Technology as Systems Administrator. Photography has been my "right-brain" release. I've watched this process from the inside being the person who keeps the "machines running" and tuned :-) .... it's still maturing..."Machine Learning" aka A.I . as well as "computational photography's" growth. That is not a camera in your smartphone..it's a lens connected to a GPU with some really slick algorithms and polished propriety UI code. My point is A.I. /Machine Learning and Computational software are changing photography and perception of Art in general. It can't "create" on it's own, it needs data sets and models. Because it lacks passion as you stated and it also lacks spontaneity or serendipitous activity....key components (I believe) to creativity which is a building block of Art? Embrace the Chaos -rick

[@leirumf5476]

I already was subscribed to Courtney Victoria* and I love Imitative photography** and Raw society*** * I'm kinda mad that she was in Antarctica recently and to get there she should have gone through an airport located in my city (my city is kinda the hub from where all international planes go through before going to some other airport in the country) and I'd have loveeed to go with some billboards and give her some local appreciation! ** I adored the video he did on Alexei Titarenko so much that I always look forward for opportunities where I can apply it to my photography *** From them I immensely recommend a complete "course" on street and travel photography done in Morocco that feels more like a documentary on how to do street photography. It's genuinely an incredible experience to watch it!

[@liveinaweorg]

Ari is amazing and such fun to follow.

[@allenoakley1799]

Thank you for promoting photographers that share experience and technique vs changing camera manufacturers every 2-3 years or less promoting the latest and greatest things. Think more people are looking for inspiration vs where to spend their money.

[@candyboise3186]

I love how you introduce me to other photographers and their KZbin channels.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Your welcome. ☺️

[@marklambert7734]

generous of you- drawing our attention to those that do well

[@MJFotografie-sn5iw]

Dear Alex, in my opinion I believe on AI as a supportive tool. This is what I try to explain to companies which seeks my cunsultancy services on a daily basis. I like playing with AI-Tools, but I love being behind my camera. Again a wonderful video, please keep your excellent work here on YT. Cheers.

[@johnclay7644]

Thought provoking video Thanks.

[@jamesoliver6625]

The serendipitous. I won't forget Simon Baxter relating trekking through the woods looking for compositions and then, in a moment, turned around....and there was "the tree." Or James Brew's relating the plans he had to photograph Comet Neowise, and how it wasn't working or coming together, the size wasn't right, the spacing and focal length, and it was all frustrating...and then pushing on, with nothing going as planned, he took an image...that stopped my heart, helping me transition the grief of losing my wife. I had to purchase that image from him. And my daughter, who has a much better eye that me, capturing two separate day to day images of two separate grandsons that, when challenged to other folk to assess, captures everything you need in the two images, to tell you what you need to know to discern the personality of each kid. AI will never be able to do that

[@paulmstuart]

I really appreciate you featuring these photographers and their channels. I am already following some and will now take a look at the others. I also feel that AI will not replace the passion of creating an image with a camera. Cheers.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@robertwhitemoto]

For me, it is the experiences I have out in the field that can never be replace and are something I get to keep. I've been at this so long that I understand it is a Journey, not a destination... and I have been blessed to be on this journey for a good long time and to a few amazing places.

[@judeemclaughlin7394]

I've been doing photography for a few decades. I was sharing on line pre social media and wrote a blog about the lessons learned through a camera lens. The why of the photo not the how. When KZbin came around I got two reactions - "make your blog a vlog" and "that's not what YT is for". Recently people have been encouraging me to do videos again. It would probably be more like Courtney Victoria but not quite as quirky.

[@unplugdphoto]

Interesting topic. Great to see the RAW Society mentioned. They are a fantastic group of people.

[@TL-xw6fh]

I love the outdoor life, study and observe the interaction between humans and our living space and try to capture them on camera. This process also helps my mental health and well being. These are values that AI cannot replace, as it is just a tool to create an image.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

What do you think it is that A.I won't replace?

[@Sven-R]

The fun creating photos with a camera. It’s not the same sitting in front of a computer creating an image with A.I. or being at location and getting inspired there, maybe talking with other people, whether it's other photographers or people I take pictures of. Getting creative with the situation you find, whether it being subjects or lighting conditions.

[@creative_cozmic]

Any real life event photography such as weddings, sports events, documentary, war photography and plenty more.

[@TheArtist441]

Authentic images. I think in the future, there could be a sea of AI generated images, when a real images comes through, it will be a breath of fresh air and it will hold a very different kind of value. In fact, how could AI replace photography when a big part of photography is documenting something real, a real place, a real event etc. when AI images would just be pretty imagery that has no further value attached to it other than looking nice

[@ThePhotographicEye]

I know you can recreate this stuff with prompts - but it's nothing if you don't have the vision in the first place

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Funny, I'd never thought of that - though couldn't war and documentary be faked?

[@ChrisHunt4497]

I love content like this, recommending other channels to explore. I shall sample from all of them. They look intriguing. Thank you so much Alex for your wonderful channel. I love it. ❤

[@Rob.1340]

Thank you. All the best. 👍📷😎

[@simonpayne7994]

I am very negative about A.I. Smartphones already put photographers plus a few camera manufacturers out of business and A.I. will certainly kill off the rest. On the other hand, A.I. would be perfectly capable of getting the sky exposed nicely along with the ground without requiring any manual bracketing to be done by the user. And you are right. The process is the fun, not necessarily the result. The result is always technically good and compositionally at least OK. Now and again the result is brilliant and, as we all know, the degree of achievable brilliance is usually inversely proportional to the time and effort taken to set things up and take the picture. And trying to repaint half the canvas in post afterwards does not make a bad picture any better. Quite often it's the completely unplanned quirky quicky snapped just after ending the shooting session that actually wins the day. This is also part of the fun of it!

[@Laura-dw4yo]

Excellent video! I have been really struggling recently as my style has developed with it being "wrong" because it doesn't match the elements repeated over and over again in many of the more...mainstream? youtube channels and IG accounts. This variety of youtubers is AMAZING and exactly what I need to be seeing. Thanks for doing what you do!

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thanks for watching

[@tedgoldman9121]

Yes, the passion and experience can’t be replaced!! I do think AI can offer tools for photographers such as the new tools in Lightroom. But many aspects of professional photography are at risk. PS, another great content creator is T. Hopper! Thanks for another great video!

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thanks for watching.

[@lovethatshotadventures]

Great video! I agree, it’s impossible for a computer to replicate an artist’s passion. The adventure of photography is what motivates me to get out and shoot. I just subscribed to the channels you mentioned (already a fan of Courtney and Sarah). I love discovering new photographers who demonstrate a passion for what they do. -Misti

[@johnhearn5644]

Great video Alex. I'm glad you mentioned Imitative Photography. It's a suoerb channel. I love the guy's laid-back style of presenting. His video on Olga Karlovac is excellent. I love her work.

[@creative_cozmic]

It is quite refreshing to get your take on AI Alex and how it won't replace the passion and desire for people to go out and take photographs. There are a number of video's I've seen that only talk about the potential threat of AI so great to have a more positive take.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@OliverReinhard]

By definition, A.I. is never photography because it does not use light (photons) to produce its pictures but instead it sets bits in the memory of a computer. Will A.I. produce pictures we cannot distinguish from photographs taken by real photographers? - Absolutely!

[@ShootOnFilm]

Thanks!! Much appreciated!! 😊

[@martinlawrence8427]

Great upbeat video Alex on an important issue!

[@BenSussmanpro]

Thanks for highlighting these channels. I think AI will be incorporated into “legacy” photography a great deal & in order to be successful & noticed, photogs need to learn how to work with it. And those who ignore AI will be left behind and ignored. That’s how I see it.

[@iqueque]

Take a look at Kim Grant : the most delightful, thought provoking young Scottish landscape photographer. Her videos present the philosophy and thinking involved in her images, and she consciously doesn’t provide the camera settings.

[@washingtonradio]

AI should be 'Artificial Idiocy' as it just a very complex computer program that is limited by what boundaries the programmers have built into the code. It doesn't learn in any real sense and is not intelligent even to the degree a dog or cat is intelligent. When you mentioned Courtney Victoria my thoughts turned to Sarah Lyndsey, both are real characters beyond being excellent photographers.

[@eskay2250]

Terrific video Alex and nice to see you bring other photography KZbinrs under the spotlight. Should be fun to explore their work. I can some uses for AI as part of the development process but I also worry about it becoming an accepted ideas thief

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thanks for watching

[@TheNitebinder]

Good #video, fair subject. The only problem, I remember how #autofocus cameras, #DSLRs, mirrorless cameras and cell #photography was received. No one took them seriously until later on. Now some photographers swear by them, they can't imagine working without one of those camera types. My point is, some magazines and companies have already accepted #AI as a cheaper way for advertising, even as a new 'art form'. That junk will eventually become the 'norm'.

[@gladysperrier4270]

Thank you for this timely post. I watched the RPS online event about photography and AI yesterday evening and I came away feeling AI is void of expressive quality. Art appeared to be under threat with the invention of the camera but out of that sprung the Impressionists movement. Let’s rise to the challenge and show the world from today Photography is NOT dead. Thank you for the tip off to inspiring photography to kick start our creative juices.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you for watching

[@PhutureproofUK]

Signed up. Looking forward to it and really great to find some other KZbin channels to check out. My subscription list is a bit thin on the ground at the moment.

[@mrskarshsphotos]

Thank you for making a difference! I love your videos and look forward to each post.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@blackpitstudio5861]

The things Ai can never duplicate is subjectivity and the organic photographic process.

[@donjoe6326]

Thank you for your passion, thank you for introducing me to exciting photographers. Thank you for encouraging people to experiment. Thank younfor not focusing on gear. Please keep up inspiring people, thank you

[@ThePhotographicEye]

My pleasure!

[@lukasz070485]

Photographers have nothing to worry about. It is graphics designers that are fear of AI the most. AI can't capture the moment, it only gather the Internet into mash up that is close to description.

[@smryt9728]

Photography as a passion/hobby won't ever be replaced, but a huge part of photography as a business will. I think event photographers will be safe because they are in the business of capturing special moments. But things like product photography will just become close to irrelevant. Businesses will be able to input their product and then have AI output realistic photos of the product being used by models in whichever scenario they want...all without ever having to pay for a photo shoot. Businesses will continue hiring photographers to capture important "moments" but for everything else, if they can save money, they'll just figure out what prompt to use for the AI.

[@kimmokyla-laaso4443]

The main thing that worries me about AI is that when you share this amazing picture that you took with your camera, people rather believe its created by AI, not you. AI generated pictures can be inspiring, can create ideas, but when people start to share them on social media I'm afraid that there will come a point when you just don't know what is a real picture and what is AI generated.

[@itsGINA11]

As my husband says A.I is not art, it has no soul, real art real images of real things and people are beautiful because of the life in them, A.I cannot replicate that.

[@gregm8392]

Keep promoting keep talking love your videos. AI will change a lot but will not take the soul and the passion away.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@almostgreen9498]

So grateful for this one. Thank you!

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LeeIveson]

A great outlook mate & a host of quality channels that embody what photography is all about. Cheers

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@IAmR1ch]

I don't think AI is true artificial intelligence. It is neither self aware, nor does it actually learn. To create an image, it uses stolen images without the photographers permission scraped off the internet as the basis for the image generation and knows if you type in the word cat, it has a number of cat images, compilations, perhaps even 3d representations of a cat. If you look at mid-journey it generates and image and you don't like it, it spawns four more, and you by choosing are telling it which ones you like and which ones you don't. It then calculates what it thinks humans like an generates images that have the same cat attributes, image, lighting, ect to please the general population samples eye. It cannot say what a good cat image is, it generates based on HUMAN response. When I take a picture, or paint a picture, I can say which images are good, bad, average when looking at my own images. AI cannot do that, it does not know what it likes or dislikes because it is not self aware, it only know what is liked by those who take the time to tell it what they like or dislike. Like a chef, it can mimic all the cooking behaviors, put the pan in oven using robotics, precisely measure out ingredient, and present the dish according to images in it''s database, but it can't taste the food and can only pump out millions of dishes and have HUMANS tell it what tastes good and what doesn't. This is the element that cannot be replaced.

[@massa28]

It learns, and AI do not need to be self aware to have intelligence, its huge spectrum.

[@IAmR1ch]

@@massa28 No it doesn't. The first thing your baby will learn is to associate you with getting their needs met. So, the feel of your touch, the sound of your voice, and the sight of your face will begin to mean nourishment, warmth, and comfort. Even at this young age, babies are ready to learn about the world around them. In the first year, babies learn to focus their vision, reach out, explore, and learn about the things that are around them. Cognitive, or brain development means the learning process of memory, language, thinking, and reasoning. A computer can do none of these things. It can only learn what it has been programmed to. In AI unsupervised learning, it must receive data, it then looks for patterns. That is because it was programmed by a human to do this. The other two learning methods are, supervised, and reenforced. Again these require human programming and intervention. None of these things happen by themselves. Even if you remove the self aware aspect, it is not learning, it is performing the tasks it was programmed to do.

[@Triangulum303]

Well, that's sort of how we learn, right? By recognizing patterns and completing tasks.

[@IAmR1ch]

@@Triangulum303 No, unless you are refuting random chance evolution in favor for God programming us. If so I would argue that are programming is not like his and computers do not learn when we do a true comparison.

[@massa28]

@@IAmR1ch You just lost me at programmed to do, you are very wrong here. These large language models (and overall machine learning models) are not programmed in traditional sense. The point of deep learning algorithms is that these are not programmed to do what they doing, they have given data and they need to self learn how to do task, in this learning process they are creating HUGE artificial neural networks, a lot of data points that are making "black box" problem of AI, after they give us answer from system we can't check how they did it given data they had, its impossible, these nueral networks are TOO HUGE. They are not like your weather app on smartphone, with a lot of line of code. The "artificial" part in artificial intelligence is another big clue, this intelligence is very "alien" to us, no need to compare AI to children..

[@danevarkevisser4670]

I do agree that for the foreseeable future AI will not replace novel creativity. Nor will it replace the curiosity, emotionally connection or physical inputs of a human. However, I think we are underestimating the potential of AI. It will have a huge impact on the photographic industry particularly in areas of commercial photography where AI I believe will change the landscape.

[@oudviola]

Good discussion. For now 'AI' seems to be mostly reassembling and editing real photos previously taken, hence not very creative as others have noted here. That may evolve in the future. As another recommendation, I get a lot from Steve O'Nions channel here on YT. Cheers!

[@richardhearing5156]

I think there are two things with A.I. one aspect will be how programmes such as Photoshop works and improve its ease of use, Connected to this is how the image is taken and how easy it is in camera. The other is images that are created via the computer. But there will be a need to create because of the pleasure of taking an image.

[@jresin_photo]

Courtney is so much fun to watch, usually save her videos for rainy days as they bring me upp when i'm down. She needs more attention :) As much as i like and dislike AI it kind of scares me for reasons beyond photography and art. IF an AI can construct a camera, pick it up and go out to shoot photographs, then i'll put my cameras into storage or use them as paper weights :D

[@alstuart8801]

Did a bit of assisting with your interview subject Si Melber last Tuesday. great fun, he has a great eye!

[@markcreamer5346]

Thanks for pointing out these wonderful channels. Can't wait to dive in. Just an fyi... Sarah Lyndsay's name is misspelled within the video (-sey instead of -say).

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@AlexSm1th]

I like your speech about photography and you inspire me! Thanks and ... please, keep doing this!

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@IAmR1ch]

Another thing I was thinking AI cannot replace is the moment. Event photography. AI could take an image of me and my friend and place us in front of the Eiffel tower. But it means nothing. A picture taken by a boy with my cell phone, cannot be replaced. I was there and all the memories that surround that. AI can't do that. Maybe when a robot can run around and take pictures, but I wouldn't want that. I would want a human doing it.

[@oneeyedphotographer]

I have been following Victoria for a while. She mentions in a podcast with Jason Eldridge that she's autistic. Simon Phillips is another autistic photographer, and I discovered fairly recently that I too am autistic, in my case quite like Doc Martin.

[@oneeyedphotographer]

Judging from my Google search, quite a few people ask whether Doc Martin is autistic. According to Martin Clunes, "He might be." From that I conclude the creators did not set out to make an autistic character, probably they cannot do it accurately, but they have chosen a set of autistic traits. A person is not autistic unless they display a combination of autistic traits, a lot of not autistic people display a lot of them too, AND they impair that person's functioning. Certainly, Doc Martin's impaired.

[@barbaravs1814]

It's funny, yesterday I was watching a live chat with Zack Snyder and he said that as creators what we have that matters most is our vision, the way we see the world and how it goes through us, we are the prism. And that that is something AI can't imitate.

[@offgrid-bound]

AI is like your favourite (ehm) high school robot student. It can recite all the facts fed into its algorithm, but it lacks the individual experience that makes human passion, wonder, love and hate possible. I doubt that AI will ever be able to produce the kind of photography that raises spontaneously from human emotions.

[@iainmc9859]

Photography is a great hobby, its engaging, frustrating, and addictive. Will you be able to make a living out of it with the advent and inevitable evolution of AI ... nope. It will fall into the same category as weaving, woodcarving and blacksmithing, Arts and Crafts. A tiny percentage make a living from putting a paintbrush to canvas and covering your costs by pressing a shutter button will go the same way; how many photo journalists still ply their trade ? Companies do not pay for enthusiasm or experience they pay by useful result. This isn't negativity, its just reality as we have created it. Enjoy your photography, a computer will not be able to replicate your sense of fulfilment.

[@timdenis6788]

Great video. But... I disagree with you. 1) We're just at the dawn of AI. Therefore, I think that predicting 'AI will never be able to do this or that....' The chances of being wrong are bigger than them of being right 2) 'AI cannot put passion into photography'. I *tend* to agree, but that is irrelevant. If a picture induces an emotion in the viewer, than it is a good picture, and has it reached it's goal. For the viewer, the source of the picture will become more and more irrelevant. Exactly what happened with Instagram. 3) There will be a following generation that has never know thet age 'before AI'. They will embrace it without questions. I think AI is going to push 'photography' in general in a similar way that 'digital photography' has pushed 'film photography'. With the difference that the speed of this process will be the square of the speed of the aforementionned push. I see dark times coming for camera manufacturers. It will become a niche, just as film photography is now. Add to this the ever increasing quality of smartphone cameras - also incorporating more and more 'AI features'... We'll live in a different world in 10 years from now. And not only in regard to photography...

[@DemaMoto]

I agree 100% Photography as a passion will survive like film photography survived. Photography as a job will be highly crippled

[@kingkevinhector]

Sadly I think you're right, particularly on point 2. Part of the joy of photography is being able to share your images with other people, but now there is always going to be that suspicion in people's minds that your image wasn't real but was faked by AI.

[@haiderhusain9964]

lovely

[@uhoh7541]

True that AI can't replicate the passion injected into a photograph, but unfortunately your average person doesn't pick up on that (or care)- just us that do this as a hobby/profession. Majority of people were still falling for bad PS tricks before AI came along. There will still be a demand for human generated photos at events or of famous landmarks, but unfortunately i think AI is about to make selling stock images and random prints for wall art a thing of the past 😢

[@alunrees3056]

Top video, glad to hear wehave something AI doesn’t. Though I appreciate it as a tool, like for noise reduction.

[@saraboychuk_]

Great video!

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@tacticaldesigns8794]

Very recently I tried to have AI organize my files based on my subdirectories with the ability to recommend new subdirectories. I'd say it was 40% effective (ballpark) on putting things where they should be. It was still useful, but it lacked creativity in making a decision. It was more of logical guessing than understanding the implication of what the file could contain. AI has difficulty understanding the bigger picture of something and even the smaller picture. It's like it can only understand a broad range but nothing specific. This is why it won't replace photography, it can't contextualize art.

[@tedbrown7908]

AI can't anticipate the potential emotion of people and animals. I try to always anticipate and or look for the moment that an emotion happens to people and animals. I have some very different photo's of common birds and animals. That happens in an instant which AI can't conceive of.

[@aeromodeller1]

Alex, you can get the pronunciation of foreign words at Google Translate.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@baxtermarrison5361]

I think from what I have seen from photographic AI it will have a place in the process. Whether that is to improve post production workflow, for example, culling images from a shoot by removing duplicate shots, or people with their eyes closed etc. I also think it will provide inspiration for creating images and stimulating ideas. It will also be used by the lazy and the untalented button-pressers. Similarly, there will be generes for which it will be a boon, and others where it will have no place. At the end of the day, it's just another tool in the box.

[@robyn_roamz]

AI doesn’t have the human soul and never will. Photographers that make me go WOW have soul.

[@DemaMoto]

There are so many video of photographers saying that AI will never replace this or that. That is probably true in regard of passion and love we put in it but it is also true that a lot of commercial photography will be replaced by AI, same way as CGI replaced photography in commercial work early 2000. I am also sure that not too far in the future photos for news and general stock images will be replaced by AI. Surely there will be new positions and possibilities that will open up and new jobs created. That is how is see it don't hate me, I love photography film or digital as a way to express myself but we will probably be a smaller number in the future.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

In the commercial field I would agree with you. Ethically I feel the news and documentary would be a step too far - though changing images for the sake of political or social narrative need isn't ofc anything new. I don't hate AI, I use it everyday and I'm excited by it's possibilities. Thanks for watching!

[@ShutterTokyo]

Great video, thanks. Yes, AI will not be able to replace the Passion in Photography, but AI will become better and more creative. Some of the images on Midjourney are really already now mind-blowing. AI will replace most of the commercial photographers like in Fashion, food and product photography. That will have a large impact on camera makers, who will produce and develop less new camera and lens models. The lawsuits from Getty Image and others are just a desperate move to stop what can't be stopped anymore.

[@cjsamtab7]

A.I. , cannot replicate much less replace FEEL. Which is also inherent in music played by a human.

[@scottandlindae3803]

I would also suggest Kim Grant.

[@jpdj2715]

AI can never ... the philosophical problem with such a statement is that it says nothing about AI but merely informs about how we implicitly assess human intelligence. For a long time, AI has been primarily artificial, and in the meantime, "we" - humanity - have discovered that other animals have a notion of self too, have notions of fairness, have notions of quantity or potentially can create some sort of what we would call art. Intelligence is not unique for humans. Moore's Law has been valid for decades in doubling the number of components in a chip each and every 1.5 years - which means that in 15 years time, there were 1,024 times more components per area. So after 30 years, there are over a million times more components per area than way back. Part of that increase is allocated to processing power, part to standby circuits to take over in case of circuit failure, part to monitoring and security that was not present in the past. If we can only use 50% of the increased component density for increased processing power, then we are still left with a considerable (2^20=1,048,576 -> 1,048,576/2 = 524,288 times more power). That has translated into processing power. "We" used to have hard-coded algorithms that could solve specific problems in a non-human way - let's call it artificial. And then the AI discipline came up with neural networks approaches to learning, as replacement of the hard-coded algorithms. These developments have been more or less exponential and today "we" have ChatGPT. My philosophical opening was my position already in the 1980s and 90s that I discussed with colleagues who also had studied AI and maybe taught it. The problem is not "if" AI will become better to the point it "also" can do all that, but "when" - in that sense a small problem. The problem is how to deal with it as humanity. What policies to make about it. I read, in the past two weeks, that two cases have been documented of an individual ordering some powerful AI program to destroy humanity. At least in one case, the software had been working on that mission. The problem with our art is not if AI can ever ... but how we deal with it. Our cameras shoot raw files that consist of monochrome data elements and we use AI to come up with colours, take out jagged edges and deal with banding. In the case of Adobe, that AI was rather stupid, and generated loads of noise that it could not remove. Now they have a new AI algorithm that can remove such noise much better. But it is not as good as Topaz DeNoise AI, yet. I can create a mask in Lightroom Classic now that selects the white of eyes and can then make it a bit whiter. A second mask can select the irises of my sitter(s) and make the blue bluer. Then I can add a mask that selects the lips and make these a bit more red. These selections are made by the image recognition AI and logically stored. What makes this powerful is that I can include these masks in copying develop settings and apply these to the next shots, even when eyes and mouth are in a different place in the frame. So AI is already everywhere - in our cameras, doing AF, automatic exposure, autofocus, and raw processing for SOOC JPEGs. In our cars - I tried to switch off the driver aides in my Mercedes and could not. My country uses the hard shoulder of the motorway in cases during rush hour, so I need to cross a continuous line parallel to me or diagonally in front of me at exits. My steering column gets vibrated and the car may decide to hit the brake. Yes, that is stupid AI that was never adapted to my country, but still, the AI looks at the road and potential dangers and responds to "perceived" dangers. Step by step it gets closer to our intelligence. And when it perfectly mimics humans, it will make the same stupid mistakes too, I always said. It's not simple and our brainpower is probably orders of magnitude bigger than we thought so far. Recently, different signal levels have been discovered in the human brain, rather than on/off (signal/no signal) only. I would compare that with the difference between today's ordinary computers and quantum computers. While the camera uses the AI I mention above, a Nikon Z 9 has been given special fingerprint code that can be used to store a seal of authenticity in the image data, not just the meta data. The question is not if, but when and consequently, the discussion must be where and how to draw lines that must not be crossed.

[@1967davidsrebrnik]

I believe AI is like moving from analog to digital photography and from painting to photographing or from modern painting to classical one, it's a new form of art. I tried a bit on dall-E and didn't get easily any good results. The danger is using it to create fake photography and sell them for real. Like laws were made to write if the model in the photo was photoshoped the same must be done about AI .

[@distomos8118]

AI, which is artificial, but isn’t by any stretch of the meaning of the word intelligent, as it’s not self aware, is feared, and for good reasons. As digital publications are leading the downfall of the printing industry, as CAD and Desktop Publishing made technical drawings by hand and reprography obsolete and, as a last example, robots almost obliterated jobs in the manufacturing industry, this new technology will also affect photography. The interesting question is what kind of photography? I venture to say that mostly stock photography, fillers, will be affected. Pretty bad for those which make a living on it. For those among us which have the privilege to indulge in more creative work, and find a market for it, it is a chance to evolve our post processing skills if anything more, because that’s the way I’d use it, a tool and not a giver of ideas. So, as long as we put our heart into it, tell stories with our images, make them unique by the message and the feelings we wish to convey, we’ll be far ahead of the soulless AI, and we’ll have an audience. Smaller maybe, but with genuine interest in our visual take of the world. The infatuation for AI generated art and photography will reside, as with all the automation. Remember: the CD was labeled as the end on Vinyl in the 80s, for those among you which remember, but it’s still around, alive and kicking, and cherished by audiophile listeners all over the world for the unique sound they produce. Let’s take all this with a grain of salt and take advantage of AI, forge it to our needs and make a lasting impression with it.