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Audio Visual
For at least 25 years, I have occasionally dabbled in Audio Visual (AV) production and, for the past few months, I’ve been concentrating on making new AVs, with a mixture of photography and AI generated elements. AV has always been a minority interest within the amateur photographic community, and while new AI tools may encourage wider participation, that will depend on how readily the AV world embraces them—particularly AI image generation, which is illustration rather than photography. Although some competitions now permit such elements, full acceptance within amateur organisations may be a long way off, if it comes at all. None of this concerns me. I make these AVs for…
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Conceptual Portraiture, Fantasy and Art
I love creating unique portraits with a historical twist. I often work with friends who are willing to model for me, and I dress them in costumes I’ve sourced from a variety of places—from charity shops, family and friends and even my own hand-sewn creations. My goal is for the costumes to look authentic and well-made, not like cheap “fancy-dress” outfits from China. It’s also important to me that they fit the model well. Once the model and costume are ready, I begin the photoshoot. Lately, I’ve been working in my home studio, which gives me complete control over the lighting. However, I’ve also taken many photos at outdoor events.…
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AI Judging – will it replace Humans?
As a frequent judge of photography, from club level to national level, I am rarely lost for words or an opinion! However, later this year I will be pitching my judging experience against AI judging and I very much expect to come up short, because I find AI judging so thorough and knowledgeable about art in particular. What can I, as a mere human, possibly come up with to rival the vast human experience that has been used to train AI models? I simply can’t! I pondered this idea for a while, but not for very long, because it soon occurred to me that I could ask AI. So I…
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