Wow, that is actually a bit frightening. I am here picturing in my mind how I would stack those nuts and bolts, reduce the dof, use natural light, etc. to create a similar image; same thing with the iPhone. I hate that technology has come this far.
I just went out from a meeting were we were in a reunion with a photographer asking for "real people pictures" - apart from image banks and over-edited images.
So, no. This might happen to some. But it will never really replace photography.
this is only supposed to affect people that shoot for realism. There's so much photo editing software out there, that hardly any photographer today is trying to shoot for absolute realism. (Even in the pre-digital, pre-computer world, there were all kinds of things you could do in a dark room, with filter, etc, to manipulate images)... so no... this isn't going to have any effect on photographers
25 years ago I was told books would be nonexistent in 20 years... Surprise! They are still here... I LOVE technology, (and, due to thumb/wrist health issues I almost exclusively read e-books) but I truly believe that there are some things that will never completely go away... books and cameras are two of those things. There was a time that slate manufacturers were threatened by pen and ink, then ink and pen nib makers were threatened by the advent of ballpoint pens and pencils, then notebook makers were threatened by word-processing, and on it goes... people adapted either by what they made or how their products were used. Times and people change... books are different now than they were several hundred years ago... cameras are different than they were 50 years ago (or 50 days ago!) and these and other things will continue to evolve. I don't necessarily think it is scary or bad... it is just different. In the inkwell days parents/teachers were worried when pre-made inks came out that students would forget or never learn how to mix ink... Is that a skill you wish you had? I could not care less. If I can make an image without a camera is it less of an image? Not to me. But at this point I don't think it is going to be an issue for me anyway because I am a hobbyist and I enjoy "taking pictures." But who knows what I might enjoy doing in the realm of "making images" 2 or 4 or 10 years down the road?
Having followed electronic music for the past decade I’m well familiar with the hysteria that software will one day replace a skilled individual (where the argument was that the laptop DJ would kill off the vinyl DJ).
At the end of the day, people will use the tools that they feel most comfortable with and the tools that they feel give them the maximum amount of creativity. The end result of the DJ debate was that creative and skilled people create great results regardless of the medium used.
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So, no. This might happen to some. But it will never really replace photography.
I will now step off my soap box... :)
At the end of the day, people will use the tools that they feel most comfortable with and the tools that they feel give them the maximum amount of creativity. The end result of the DJ debate was that creative and skilled people create great results regardless of the medium used.