Square at cathedral Florence Italy, AI-Photo combination As a creative person, artist and photographer at heart, I am always trying out all the new "brushes" with my photography too. It is now possible to create an image by entering words and using Artificial Intelligence (AI), and of course I had to try it.
Photoshop, too, now has several AI applications built into its programme.
Although it is really incredible what then emerges, I miss something "unique" about the images created that way, so I started experimenting using my own photos as a starting point.
I then make an AI image of these, which I then merge with the original using double exposure. By revealing or hiding parts of the original photo, I create the final image you see here. Although clearly different from one-to-one photography, the feeling for me, as with my paintings and photos, is "made by me and therefore unique". So can it still be called photography? Actually, as far as I'm concerned, the designation doesn't really matter. What is certain is that without my photographs, I would not have been able to create this image.
Created by Marianne van der Zee with support from AI.
Who am I, a small intro:
Once started as an architecture photographer with Robert Oerlemans as my photography docent at the art academy in The Hague.
Later followed by a 4-year art study "visual" at the UCK in Utrecht and a screen printing course at the CKE in Eindhoven.
Although I still..
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