Recent content by benc98

This is a big and interesting topic. Ai does have an aesthetic imo - and perhaps it's grounded in the same reference materials that you use for your improvement / development.

I guess it depends on the genre/style that I'm shooting, and if I'm using film or digital. With a lot of street photography, I'm shoot first and ask questions later, where possible I try not to analyse or think too hard when photographing. The time for think is before and after - so I tend to...

I wouldn't buy from that link - go via Affinity's website https://www.affinity.studio/page-layout-software

It might be possible to use or import PSD files

Affinity publisher is free to use and ideal for designing book covers

There was a video interview a week or two back on the same channel with David Campany, always good to hear him talk

I was a paid member of the greens for a while there, I liked their views on democracy and on the environment, they didn't have a huge amount money and my monthly sub would help and more Green MPs would be a good thing. Then they got taken over by the Corbyn supporters and it became populist...

I'd make a reference photo maybe using my phone. I'd make a note of where I'd need the Sun to be for the light that I want and find out what time of year etc.. to come back. Then I'd completely forget about the above, and never return!

Yeah that was my thinking. No tso much AI leaving the country, just the AI companies not wanting to pay taxes.

I think the theory goes that AI will be taxed, and that will pay for us all to have universal basic income. A mad theory if you ask me

There are people who quite early in their careers have made highly significant bodies of work and they didn't have a huge amount of photography knowledge. There's going to be people in here with x10 the amount of technical knowledge and a full range of technical knowhow. There isn't a single...

Try to avoid being conditioned by judges and others. Saying that.. I enjoy the second more.. less keen on on the bright white water, partially in the middle of the frame

It would help if the public are politically literate.

I’ll see if I can find it and PM you - don’t want to call anyone out specifically in public

I agree, and it's weird because if you were photographing the roast dinner or designing the poster, you want it to look perfect.