The Sasol Highveld Photography held its monthly club meeting at Sasol Club recently.
The Best Senior at the meeting was Louis van der Walt with his photograph “Behind Wolfberg Arch MilkyWay”
The best Junior at the meeting was Edmund Hattingh with “Blousysie geniet die water”
The best photographer in the Set Subject category was Sussa Pelser with “Klou aan Pop.”
See the video with all the photographs at the bottom of the article
Johan Drotsky spoke about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it is creeping into photography.
The following paragraphs are excerpts from a blog on the popular photography company, Orms, website. Please visit the page HERE and read the full insightful article there.
Over the past few years, the connection between AI and photography has slowly become more integrated. AI is utilised in diverse ways to augment the capabilities of modern cameras, effectively aiding photographers in producing superior images. While some photographers revel in the transformative power of AI, others remain hesitant.
As is its nature, AI continues to evolve and improve day by day, making it harder to argue against the fact that it makes nearly every application to which it’s applied incredibly efficient. With the recent infiltration of AI in almost every platform and online tool, it’s something we can no longer ignore. Google’s BARD and Magenta, Midjourney, Open Ai’s ChatGPT and Dall-E and Photoshop’s Firefly are all ground-breaking AI applications that have completely changed the way we work and create. For some, this spells the beginning of the end; for others, this opens up a world of possibilities.
Earlier in 2023, German photographer Boris Eldagsen won the Creative category of the Sony World Photography Award. However, the artist refused the prize, admitting that he submitted an AI-generated image with the aim of testing whether photography competitions were prepared for the influence of AI in photographic competitions. The winning photograph depicted two women from different generations in black and white.
Club Photos
Even though AI is with us the photographers themselves took all the photos shown at the club evening.
Here is a video with the photographs that achieved “Gold” and “Certificate of Merit” awards.
