AI Photography

Can You Spot What's Real? Using Generative Fill to Push Your Photography Further
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Can You Spot What's Real? Using Generative Fill to Push Your Photography Further

Every few months, a tool comes along that genuinely changes how I think about a finished image. I resisted generative fill longer than I should have. My instinct was the same one I hear from a lot of photographers: “That’s not really photography.” But then I started watching what people were actually doing with it, and my opinion softened fast. In this Peter McKinnon tutorial, Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, Peter reacts in real time to a batch of community-submitted images where photographers used generative fill to alter or extend their photos.

Let AI Do Your Photo Keywording — How Lightroom's Search Actually Works
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Let AI Do Your Photo Keywording — How Lightroom's Search Actually Works

I have a Sunday morning photo walk tradition. Every week, no matter what. And after a few years of doing that faithfully, I have an embarrassing number of images sitting in Lightroom that I have never properly keyworded. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever met a photographer who genuinely enjoys keywording. It’s the kind of task you promise yourself you’ll do later, and later never comes. That’s exactly why this tutorial from Matt Kloskowski stopped me mid-scroll.

AI Won't Kill Photography — But It's Changing What Authenticity Means
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AI Won't Kill Photography — But It's Changing What Authenticity Means

Every few months something shows up in my Sunday photo walk conversations that I can’t stop thinking about on the drive home. Lately it’s been AI-generated images, and specifically the question one of my regulars asked me point-blank last week: “Should I even bother learning photography if a computer can just make the same thing?” I didn’t have a clean answer, which bothered me more than the question itself. That’s what sent me back to a video I’d bookmarked a few weeks earlier.

How Serge Ramelli Built a Full AI Music Video (And What Photographers Can Learn From His Workflow)
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How Serge Ramelli Built a Full AI Music Video (And What Photographers Can Learn From His Workflow)

There’s a version of burnout that doesn’t look like burnout. You’re still shooting. You’re still editing. You’re still posting. But somewhere along the way, the work starts to feel like obligation instead of expression, and you can’t quite remember when that switch flipped. I’ve been there more than once, and I suspect most photographers reading this have too. That’s why I sat up a little straighter when I came across this Serge Ramelli tutorial, Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, and realized it had nothing to do with Lightroom sliders or lens choices.

When AI-Generated Photos Cross the Line: A Wake-Up Call for Digital Trust
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When AI-Generated Photos Cross the Line: A Wake-Up Call for Digital Trust

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the responsibility that comes with publishing images. Recently, I learned about a significant incident that perfectly illustrates why this matters more than ever: a major Dutch newspaper published an AI-generated photograph alongside a fabricated news story, and it’s a powerful reminder for all of us working with images today. What Happened? The publication ran an image of a woman allegedly attempting to flee Dubai on their website.