That seems totally fine. If he is upfront with clients that images are AI generated/uptouched, not real photos, and that is what they are paying for, that’s just called running a business that innovated a saturated market. He found a way to produce a product and do it cheaper than everyone else.
Does it kinda cheapen out the experience from not capturing “real” memories? Personally I’d say yup. But that is my personal preference and not that of the clients.
Given that he does photos for 10 brides a day and still has free time, he must’ve been upfront about it.
I don’t understand how because to make people look hot using ai you still need to make real pictures.
So either they just expanded the business with a popular side project or he has customers send their own pictures (which are rarely in the format, proportions, light conditions you need)
Most likely it never happened.
- “Send a photo like this and I’ll AI it up”
- Client sends a photo like the one anon asked
- anon runs the photo on AI thingy, gets some results
- anon shows the result to client
I suspect the pics only need to have the person a similar enough pose to what they want, the AI generates the clothes and environment
Agreed.
Does it kinda cheapen out the experience from not capturing “real” memories? Personally I’d say yup.
And as long as other people feel the same way, regular photographers will still have clients.
Bride just doesn’t get to choose how many fingers she has
Wedding deepfakes. Interesting
No overhead, no cameras.
So if he isn’t taking any pictures at all he must just be getting face pics from brides and using them as part of a prompt?
Each to their own but personally I don’t understand why someone would do this. To my mind the purpose of a picture is so that you can look back at something that happened in the past or show others who weren’t there.
I could understand it being fun to mess around with an AI yourself and make those kinds of pics if they’re the type of thing you’re into. But are people getting pics like OP is making and sharing them? Hanging them on their wall? Pretending they were real? I find that quite sad.
photographer is the first thing to cut
I got married for about $3.5k, of which $800 was the photographer and that was a spectacular decision.
