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Why do you think commercial photography is toast? (asking as someone who paid obscene amount to few photographers last year ((wedding, budoir, maternity photos
by AzuraIsCool 3y ago
Why do you think commercial photography is toast? (asking as someone who paid obscene amount to few photographers last year ((wedding, budoir, maternity photos hoot))
- guappa 3y agoYou can just ask "make photo of a baby" to a computer. Why do you need the actual baby when you can have a fake baby with mangled hears and 7 fingers per hand?
- aquafox 3y agoBecaus you can't do that if you want a professional photo of your baby.
- b112 3y agoThis isn't about this moment. You think "now" is "always like this"??? Future images will make real babies look ugly in comparison.
- foota 3y agoYou can with finetuning, but I think parent is being sarcastic :-) I think the point is that no one (ok, not no one, but few people) will view fake photos in the same way as real ones when it comes to sentimentality.
- Gigachad 3y agoIt’s probably good enough to replace blog post header images that served close to no value to begin with. Everything else is still to be seen.
- spaceman_2020 3y ago> Why do you need the actual baby when you can have a fake baby with mangled hears and 7 fingers per hand? Comments like these are fine on Twitter and Facebook, but if you're on HackerNews, commenting on an article about AI, it makes you look completely out of touch. You've clearly not kept pace with the technology and are just repeating verbatim what you saw 6 months ago. HN, as a whole, has been so behind the curve that it's not even funny.
- guappa 3y agoOk. Can you post here an AI generated photo of my kids, sitting in our kitchen?
- spaceman_2020 3y agoAre your kids commercial objects?
- imtringued 3y agoYou do recognize that you are making fun of the sarcasm indicator, right?
- smt88 3y agoThey're talking about people who take photos for ads and product listings, not people who are hired for major life events. No one needs to take a photo of a can of Coke sitting on a poolside bar when Midjourney can create it in 30 seconds.
- charlieyu1 3y agoQuality issues. Mass production haven’t wiped out hand made furniture.
- hexage1814 3y agoBut most people are fine with a mass produced furniture rather than hand made one...
- b112 3y agoIndeed. The same is true of clothes, which used to be all custom made, hand tailored. There is still manual labour in some of that, but it's vastly reduced, and almost never bespoke. The same is true of so many things. Only those with money to burn, can afford that ancestral experience.
- klodolph 3y agoMass production hasn’t wiped out hand-made furniture, but it’s damn fucking hard to get decent furniture these days on a reasonable budget. There used to be a kind of comfortable mid-range where you could spend extra money and get decent furniture, without going into luxury or bespoke furniture. Now, it seems like everything is either similar to Ikea in terms of build quality, or some kind of expensive / luxury good. It’s basically bimodal now.
- victorstanciu 3y agoYes it has. Just because _some_ woodworkers still exist doesn't mean the profession as a whole hasn't massively declined with the advent of the likes of IKEA.
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- aubanel 3y agoLook at this: https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/Ip-Adapter-FaceID https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/Ip-Adapter-FaceI... From a few crappy photos of your face, you can generate photos of you in nearly every setting: so I think all the "studio" part of a commercial photographer's job is toast.