See the beauty in the world

As I was watching a girl practicing her calligraphy skills by drawing Japanese hieroglyphs, I was contemplating about the photo editing craft and how it might be affected by the advancement of the AI.

AI has fundamentally disturbed the creative space; it has even challenged the concept of creativity itself. A single prompt can now create an absolutely compelling image, often indistinguishable from a photo taken by a professional.

The book The Age of AI: And Our Human Future explores the concept of AI advancement by projecting the trend of people relying on AI more and more to the point when they lose nearly all their skills and become 100% dependent on it.

One turn this could take is a conscious choice by people to keep doing certain things themselves. An example could be modern-day artists who still create works of art with a paintbrush in their hands. Or even more common thing like running, people choose to run these days not because of life's necessity, but because it keeps them healthy and creates communities.

In today's post I've wanted to hone the photography adjacent skill - photo editing, it might be a dying breed, I might be a part of the first and the last generation to know how to edit photo manually... I hope not though, drawing the same analogy with the painting and drawing, which is still alive today.

There is so much depth to the photo editing process: framing, contrast, white balance, split toning, HSL, and the list goes on and on. It is digital art; it is part of the photography; it's what makes a photo unique.

I've put up a video with my personal approach to the photo editing, something I've slowly learned over the years of practicing.

Let's keep our craft, our creative process, and our ability to see the beauty in the world. This is what makes us human; this is worth living for.

Watch the full video guide: https://youtu.be/6Moo2KoKs5c