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0c3ca83 • yesterday at 11:06 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

If the camera was capable of deciding how to frame the images, how to stage them, what lighting was required, how to edit them after taking them -- yes, professional photography would be dead. Hobbyist photography may stick around for people that value humanness, but photographers wouldn't be commercially relevant. Just ask the camera.

AI isn't a better keyboard. The goal is to automate the decision making.


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alfg • yesterday at 11:35 PM

> capable of deciding how to frame the images, how to stage them, what lighting was required, how to edit them

This is all possible now. I don’t think it’s dead (yet), but it’s certainly becoming more weird and artificial.

blktiger • yesterday at 11:30 PM

There is a lot of variability in photography and there aren’t hard rules for deciding what makes a “good” photo. A good photo comes more from selecting a subject, in a particular environment, etc.

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