How AI Improves Photography
Posted: March 31, 2020
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Taking pictures has definitely become much easier with the progression of technology. Long gone are the days where you have to lug around a huge camera when going out to shoot pictures, and missing spontaneous moments that you want to document. Even with the popularity of the digital format, most photographers don't like carrying a "big" digital camera every time they go out. Thanks to smartphones, we no longer run the risk of missing photo opportunities while going about our day. Artificial intelligence lends its hand to smartphone camera technology, which is why even the most casual of picture takers can take some pretty great shots.
Brian Wallace, contributor to Dumb Little Man, shares how AI makes us all better photographers.
Once upon a time you needed to carry camera equipment around with you if you wanted to be able to document anything throughout your day. At first, cameras were reserved for still, seated photos only, but over time camera technology improved so that cameras were easily portable.
By the 1990s and early 2000s, cameras didn’t even require film and there was no developing of pictures as everything had turned digital. As digital camera technology improved, digital cameras began to be added to cell phones, and eventually smartphone photography became commonplace.
This gave rise to all kinds of apps like Instagram, which is basically a diary of photos online. Cameras on smartphones have become highly sophisticated pieces of equipment, and part of the reason we’ve all turned into such great photographers is the technology inside those cameras.
How AI Improves Smartphone Photography
Regular cameras have automatic features that still motion and adjust aperture for the right shot. In your smartphone, this is all done with artificial intelligence, which allows a tiny camera to be packed with powerful features. The AI in your smartphone camera can detect faces, blur the background, adjust lighting, and more. Different effects create different outcomes, but in many high tech cameras the AI will take the best features from multiple shots and combine them into one perfect photo.
Read the entire article,
How AI Makes You A Better Photographer, on
Dumb Little Man.