Real Moments Don't Need Perfect Pixels
Throwback to "Old School" Photoshop
Starting out as a young child picking up my mom’s film camera was an experience I would love to relive repeatedly. If I could really go back and know what I know now then, I would have taken learning the basics even more seriously than I did. I would take in as many tips and tricks at a younger age and would try to absorb as much as I could from others around me that really understood film. Photography has always been extremely important throughout my family’s lives. My grandfather had a wide collection, now antiques that sit on my shelves.
Being in the generation that remembers life before the internet and seeing how today we rely on it extremely heavily is hard to really understand. Every day it is getting increasingly important just to survive. Artificial Intelligence is accelerating at an even faster rate and becoming intertwined with every area of focus or study, including photography. Even our cameras on our phones have a filter that is utilized that affects the outcome of how we see just a quick snap on your phone. We don’t even have to go out of our way to utilize it, it is just right there, happening before we even realize it happened.
A large majority of today’s youth won’t post or send a quick snap without some sort of filter on their face. I’m almost certain this has become an epidemic that causes more and more plastic surgery due to humans not even recognizing their own faces in the mirror on the daily.
-This has become a problem-
The real problem is real life disappears when photos become “too” perfect. Hyper focusing on the smallest details of our faces and the shape of our bodies has gone too far. The access to unlimited amounts of shutter clicks has caused us to take and take multiple shots of the exact same subject in the exact same lighting and hope for the absolute shot. Then we take the best one we could have gotten and run it through our phone’s AI apps and change all of the features that make us unique. This has been going too far. It is changing the way photography clients see themselves and expect all photographers to give the same outcomes or possibly even better due to our experiences. I have always been a fan of utilizing Adobe Photoshop, removing blemishes and scars along with stray hairs. There is one thing I will not do and that is modify a body type or change features that make my clients unique. That is why Fotojenink is returning to more RAW shots and real life moments, only editing to enhance not transform
I want to be in the begining of the revolution that will revolve around anti AI and technology that I see coming within the next decade or even sooner. I want to evolve with the times but at the same time keep myself and my business down to Earth and living each day as a day to capture.