Ever since the inception of AI ( Artificial Intelligence ) technology, there have been all kinds of speculations about how it would affect various fields. But for photographers and the photography industry, it has indeed been a boon. From amateurs to experts, it has been of advantage to everyone.
For amateur photographers, AiI embedded camera helps with complex camera settings. For seasoned professionals, it helps to cull through thousands of photos and remove low-quality images.
AI can even generate custom images from the prompts given to it, making the tedious process of going through hundreds of stock photos to find that perfect-looking background image much easier.
Photographers can now automatically adjust exposure, contrast, and color balance to create more visually appealing images.
AI enhances image quality
AI can be used to enhance the quality of an image. It can make low-resolution images of high quality, remove noise from images, change the background of the images, and can add many more creative aspects to an image. It can also add or remove objects from an image.
AI in professional cameras
Features in high-end professional cameras all make use of AI like red-eye removal, facial recognition, and subject recognition. It is also useful in resolution boost and noise reduction. AI would make professional cameras much smarter and easier to be used by newbies.
Sorting through photos is much easier
The feature of face recognition is very much known by photographers. This renowned feature makes use of AI. Much like face recognition, now AI can also recognize other subjects in a photo, which can be used by photographers for sorting photos and gathering of the same kind of photos at a place.
Faster editing and post-production
Photo editing is a tedious process, but with the latest features from AI which has many tools to automatically enhance the quality of photos based on their usage: such as social media, websites, or print media, it saves much more time and gives breakthrough results.
Conceptualization and brainstorming
Concept generation and brainstorming can be a tiring task and requires much time, which is generally not there before a shoot. You can easily prepare for a shoot in such scenarios by taking help from the AI. It can greatly assist and enhance your creative process before a shoot.
Streamlining the workflows and speeding up the process
Behind its glamorous image, photography is a tedious profession. Preparing for the shoots, setting up lighting and camera, keeping check of color and exposure during the shoot and applying color correction, setting up the brightness, exposure, and sharpness as per its application requires years of skills and expertise. Photo editing is a vast field in itself and today there are many ways in which photos can be enhanced post-production. It can be quite confusing as well as time-consuming, but AI can guide you in the right direction and also suggest editing based on the previously edited photos.
