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A water polo player takes a practice shot to warm up for the UC Irvine vs Cal Lutheran match.
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I found myself so angry this morning while reading people’s excuses for using Ai. So many people stating they use it to do creative tasks because they’re “not ✨talented✨ like the rest of us.”
I stand behind the idea that with most people whose work you appreciate, it’s not a matter of raw talent blessed to them by the gods. It’s WORK. It’s pure drive, effort, stupidity, and the willingness to do things over and over no matter how bad your results may be until slowly they’re not so bad anymore.
I am so tired of seeing Ai and thinking about it, let alone hearing lazy people (and I mean this with as little harshness as I can manage, people are being made lazier by the day by these sorts of things) make excuses why it’s ok for them to not try and to just get a dopamine hit from that social media like/favorite.
I spend so much time practicing in different photography conditions, trying different settings on my camera, & experimenting with techniques. I am not just naturally talented, although I know I have an eye for composition/framing. (Which, again, as evidenced from my film scan of a 1995 sunset & powerlines sky photo I recently posted… I’VE HAD TO PRACTICE AT FOR YEARS.) The same goes for my illustrating, my sewing, my style/fashion projects, my writing, and my small forays into music making.
I am a creative person who tries everything and does their best to hone various skills so I can best combine all facets of my creativity to create multi-media art. Sometimes that means YouTube videos, sometimes that means collage work, and sometimes that means doing styling/hair/makeup, setting up a scene, photographing it, creatively editing it, and making a collage from all of that or illustrating digitally over my images.
None of it is just raw unfiltered natural talent, it’s skill borne by constantly making bad art, taking bad photos, and writing shitty songs or stories.
The entitlement behind these excuses is infuriating. The more I see people lean into instant gratification demands instead of just being new to something and learning, the more I worry about the fate of people’s mental states. I know it’s disheartening to want to “be a great photographer/illustrator/writer” and start in at it and not instantly be applauded for how earth shattering your work is, but know that the people you admire have been putting in the work.
Some mornings I go out to practice night photography and I’m being lazy. I don’t want to take the tripod or use my remote and on those mornings I come back with nothing to share because I took a bunch of blurry grainy photos. Sometimes there is nothing to come of a photo session/walk but a learning experience and I am frustrated but grateful every time.
I took 3x as many shots this morning than you’re seeing here but this is all that came out even semi-acceptable for me because I didn’t want to dig out my remote and the settings I was using meant every little wobble, no matter how imperceptible, caused blurriness.
Please, when you have someone in your life who is destroying the very planet we live on, the only one we have, and lining the pockets of the corrupt ultra wealthy who run these scam Ai sites to “make art,” sit them down and talk to them. Lead them away from it.
Talk openly about your struggles as a creative, show the work that goes into taking your photos that people love. Be transparent and helpful to people who are interested in getting started and please, never ever play it off as just “natural talent.”
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds Soccer team practicing before their Friday game against Cleveland airing on ESPN 2. Practice was special today because 4 development team players were brought up to practice with the pros and they used the opportunity to adjust to the speed and intensity of professional level players. Drills, like "Tag" emphasized agility and mobility. Head coach Bob preached spacing, quick decision-making, and playing forward.
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The elder chick has been practicing to fly for about 10 days now. Today, at 82 days old he did his longest run of nearly 200 meter and did not take off. He will fly very soon.
Loons are excellent divers and have heavy bones, unlike most birds that have “hollow” bones. This is the reason they need such a long ran to get airborne.
My slush-fund is now just six weeks away from providing me with a Canon macro lens, so the odd shot may appear of either new or archive, as in this case, attempts at macro using a zoom lens (heresy, I know :-) Any guidance would be very welcome - maybe via Flickrmail if I need to choose another area of photography altogether!
Free to wander nowadays :-) I sometimes post daily, so perhaps you might take a quick look @ the previous two shots? Thanx - muchly, Phil
To all who view and/or comment on my pix; each is a help and a pleasure in equal measure. As I use wide or super wide lenses a lot, I feel that my landscape shots benefit from viewing after pressing L and then F11
The practice Moon! I am practicing for tomorrow nights moon and if it happens to be overcast i got some great photos tonight. I used 3 different camera bodies and 3 different lens set ups an tried to do some time lapse photography that did not turn out to well.This was taken with the 7D Mark 11 using the new 100-400 mm 11.
On location model practice photo shoot in Palace of fine art.
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Practicing with different type of train cars, I guess. Started with something simple. Tell me your favorite if you want.