You probably immediately thought this was another AI image, but it’ not. This is 100% photography. In fact, this is the first digital composite I made, based on images from my photo library, when I bought Photoshop 2.0 in 1991. Back then, probably the only person who was thinking about AI was James Cameron in his Terminator movies in which machines took over the world. This image is a 3-photo composite. The foreground is a fisheye shot of the unique salt flats in Badwater, Death Valley, California. I ran the image through Photoshop's chrome filter and then added the purple color. The sunset sky is unmanipulated, and for the faces I used a picture of a mannequin head that I mirrored. From the very beginning of my love of photography, I was doing wild and crazy things. First, I worked with in-camera and darkroom techniques. Then I used Photoshop (and still do, of course), and finally I graduated to AI. I don’t understand why some people are upset by the advent of AI. It’s just another tool with which we can make amazing images. Photoshop’s ability for creativity is boundless, too, and that’s why I embrace any and all methods of making art.
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