There are many who say synthetic intelligence is about to destroy pictures as we all know it — however one photographer is utilizing it to earn a bit of money on the facet.
Before Jim Henderson took up pictures on the age of 55 years old, he was an artwork director and he used his previous artistic endeavors for a little bit of inspiration.
“I’ve always liked these kind of retro travel posters that I’ve seen over the years,” Henderson tells PetaPixel. “So I thought I would make a couple of travel-like posters using my two dogs and posted them to social media.”
People love their dogs. So, maybe unsurprisingly, folks began enquiring if Henderson may make the retro AI posters for their very own pooches.
“I just started doing it on the side,” he explains. “It’s not my job. I’m still a photographer. It’s more of a hobby than anything but I enjoy doing them and people really like getting a nice piece of art of their dog.”
He says that proper now it isn’t paying all of the payments — removed from it. But they’re proving common and he finds the method enjoyable.
“People seem to get a lot of joy out of these. A fair amount of ones I do are for people whose dogs passed away and they like having something that’s not just a photo but something that looks a little bit more heroic,” he says.
Methodology
It is feasible to make use of {a photograph} as a immediate for AI picture mills — however that’s not what Henderson does. Instead, he will get individuals who desire a poster to fill out a profile sheet about their canine so he can perceive their character extra to higher inform the poster.
He does get reference photographs despatched over that had been taken by the house owners however they’re used to tell his textual content immediate — not often does he use them as a immediate.
“The AI is getting better and you can put an image of the dog into a prompt but it hasn’t worked out all that well and I’ve ended up using mostly just word prompts,” he says. “I’m not trying to duplicate a photo.”
The 69-year-old insists he’s “not very tech savvy” however he makes use of Midjourney which operates off of Discord.
“It’s really not that bad. There are a lot of people offering tips and advice out there. There is an art to a prompt. I don’t just type in a prompt and get the poster — it doesn’t work like that,” he says.
“I type in a prompt and it gives me something back and then I have to start refining it. Sometimes you just have to keep running and running and running — and rerunning.”
Henderson says when he’s making a customized piece for somebody it has to appear like their canine.
“You can just plop in a picture of a golden retriever because body shapes are different and some are stocky, some are lean,” he says.
In truth, more often than not he has to take the AI picture into Photoshop to good the image and that’s why he thinks anybody doing this may get higher outcomes if they’re a artistic person and have an eye.
AI: Friend or Foe?
Henderson says that he will likely be winding his picture business down sooner or later however provides that if he was 25 or 30 years old he could be involved about AI.
“There’s definitely stuff that photographers shoot now that they won’t be shooting in five or 10 years time,” he says.
But Henderson doesn’t have as a lot disdain for AI as many different photographers do.
“The reality is: it’s here and you need to figure out how to work with it. It can definitely help a photographer in certain ways. You just have to figure out how to utilize it to the best of your abilities.”
More of Henderson’s work might be discovered on his website, Facebookand Instagram.
Image credit: Jim Henderson.
