{"id":744,"date":"2023-10-28T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T07:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/744\/pixel-8-pro-didnt-kill-photography_id151566\/"},"modified":"2023-10-28T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T07:29:52","slug":"pixel-8-pro-didnt-kill-photography_id151566","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"The Pixel 8 Pro didn\u2019t \u201ckill photography\u201d, Google is just trying to save you some money! Here\u2019s how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"display: inline;\">The AI \u200b\u200bis awesome.  And I can say this: I was an early adopter of Cleverbot, with tons of hours logged with it, I was a tester for ChatGPT and now I also got pretty early access at Bard, and I love it, because collaborating with a robot to create a custom watch face is just as fun as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">    are.  The line has always been special and very AI-centric, but now it finally feels like <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/google\/\"   title=\"Google\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Google<\/a> has actually embraced it and used it as a selling point for its latest phones.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, with a screen like this and solid overall performance, the <span>Pixel 8<\/span> And <span>Pixel 8 <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/pro\/\"   title=\"Pro\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Pro<\/a><\/span> finally feel like real flagships, as we stated in our reviews.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">But you know, you can&#8217;t have a high-end device these days without causing a bit of drama on the side and over the last few days I&#8217;ve seen people get absolutely furious over the<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">    Pro&#8217;s AI-powered photo features.<\/p>\n<p>And, quite honestly, I don&#8217;t understand why, because this is the world as we know it for about a decade now.  So that&#8217;s your wake-up call, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-style: italic;\">Just <a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/670\/pixel-7a-vs-pixel-8_id5793\/\">Google flexes it Pixel<\/a> 8 Pro Features.  Do you see why people are afraid?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">    do this, other phones can&#8217;t do it?  Obviously it has an impressive 50 MP <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/camera\/\"   title=\"camera\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">camera<\/a> sensor, but that&#8217;s what the<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">    the line can do what really matters.  Here is a list of tips:<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">And, by the way, that&#8217;s just the photography-related ones, you also have Audio Magic Eraser &#8211; no explanation needed &#8211; then Zoom Enhance and <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/video\/\"   title=\"Video\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Video<\/a> Boost, which are due out later this year and will probably cause another ruckus when they do .  .<\/p>\n<p>But despite how impressive it all is &#8211; some brand new, some also available on previous Pixels &#8211; instead of celebrating Google&#8217;s success with AI, people are starting to fear AI, thinking that what these features allow you to do is just not natural.  .<\/p>\n<div>Although I don&#8217;t share the fears of my fellow photographers, I can sympathize with them.  I mean, it took you years of practice \u2013 and, let&#8217;s face it, thousands of dollars \u2013 to perfect this craft and make a name for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>And then along comes this funny little candybar phone that apparently does away with concepts like subject framing.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything unwanted in your photo, like power lines?  Whereas before you had to consider a creative way to incorporate them into your overall composition, now you can simply remove them from the photo with a few clicks on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a subject that would complement your photo very well if it were slightly to the left?  Well, select it, hold it for a while, then\u2026 Move it, seemingly shaping reality.  And then, if you don&#8217;t like it: you can simply <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">delete it<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, what&#8217;s the point of expensive equipment and an expensive diploma?  Is this time, effort and money just taken into account <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">lost?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Photography is NOT dead!  It is complicated!<\/h2>\n<div id=\"gallery-82b5c5b9-67f4-4f90-a0e3-2e634b48df58\" class=\"single-image-container full-width-element\">\n<div class=\"gallery-item\">\n<picture style=\"padding-top: 66.759259259259%\"><source media=\"(max-width: 350px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 351px) and (max-width: 500px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 501px) and (max-width: 800px)\" ><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The-Pixel-8-Pro-didnt-kill-photography-Google-is-just.jpg\" alt=\"If you think your phone's Pro mode is complicated, try a real camera.  Or don't and get a Pixel.|  Image credit \u2014 Phone Arena - The Pixel 8 Pro does not have \"tu\u00e9 la photographie\", Google essaie juste de vous faire \u00e9conomiser de l'argent !  Voici comment\"\/><\/noscript><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>If you think your phone&#8217;s Pro mode is complicated, try a real camera.  Or don&#8217;t and get a Pixel.|  Image credit \u2014 Phone Arena<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I understand.  I <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Really<\/span> TO DO.  But listen: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">photography is not dead.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nYou just have to adapt to the times.  Because, like it or not, people have been editing their photos this way for about a decade now.  It just took them more time and effort in the past.  And if you didn&#8217;t know that, you should work on your online presence.<\/p>\n<p>Now I find myself in the creaking position of knowing real influencers and here&#8217;s what I can tell you: They are all terminally ill online and for them, choosing the right filter is a life-changing decision of the utmost importance. activity, because they <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">are <\/span>the brand.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and that simple, casual, innocent-looking photo they took while having their morning <a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/2457\/meet-the-other-valtteri-bottas\/\">coffee<\/a> probably contains leftover metadata from at least a dozen separate apps.  And do you want to know the best part?<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t new and it&#8217;s not the fault of <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/tiktok\/\"   title=\"TikTok\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">TikTok<\/a>, Zuck or Elon Musk: it&#8217;s been the case since social media emerged as the new normal.  We all want to be at our best at it, and some just want it with more passion than others.<\/p>\n<p>And even though it would make it easy to say something like &#8220;the <a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/2787\/original_title-57\/\">Pixel<\/a> 8 Pro is an influencer-focused phone,\u201d I won\u2019t do that, because it\u2019s not just great for them.  It&#8217;s great for me too!<\/p>\n<p>And me?  I consider myself an artist!<\/p>\n<h2>Who says the Pixel 8 Pro can&#8217;t create art too?<\/h2>\n<div id=\"gallery-787d051e-d0ea-450f-977d-f534478d0ba3\" class=\"single-image-container full-width-element\">\n<div class=\"gallery-item\">\n<picture style=\"padding-top: 66.759259259259%\"><source media=\"(max-width: 350px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 351px) and (max-width: 500px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 501px) and (max-width: 800px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1697210258_910_The-Pixel-8-Pro-didnt-kill-photography-Google-is-just.jpg\" alt=\"Although the Visor style camera array is quite artistic for the modern phone industry.  Image credit \u2014 Phone Arena - The Pixel 8 Pro does not have \"tu\u00e9 la photographie\", Google essaie juste de vous faire \u00e9conomiser de l'argent !  Voici comment\" class=\"lazy\" data-id=\"407005\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1697210258_910_The-Pixel-8-Pro-didnt-kill-photography-Google-is-just.jpg\" alt=\"Although the Visor style camera array is quite artistic for the modern phone industry.  Image credit \u2014 Phone Arena - The Pixel 8 Pro does not have \"tu\u00e9 la photographie\", Google essaie juste de vous faire \u00e9conomiser de l'argent !  Voici comment\"\/><\/noscript><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>Although the Visor style camera array is quite artistic for the modern phone industry.  Image credit \u2014 Phone Arena<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What Google actually did was save me from having to pay for expensive PC apps like Photoshop and then learn how to use them.  The Big G also dismissed the need to have around 19 different photo editing apps on your phone &#8211; which, by the way, literally does. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A <\/span>thing, but really, really good, so you need all of them to produce a top-notch plan.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s what people do.  And I think it&#8217;s high time we stop fearing AI, because despite its rapid development, it has one glaring flaw that only humans can overcome: intention.  And the intent of your outcome is what makes you an artist, influencer, or meme poster.<\/p>\n<p>Intention, combined with viewer perception, is what creates meaning.  This is why the framing of the photos, the lighting of the subject, the reactions of the photographer: all of this <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">always <\/span>always important when talking about art.  But how many <a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/1810\/twitch-stories-feature-update_id151641\/\">social media<\/a> posts can we call art?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it involves a ton of know-how, but at the end of the day, in most cases, these are products, not aspirations.  And if Google can let you create better products more cheaply and on the go, why is that a bad thing?<\/p>\n<p>And just for the record: making a good product is just as difficult as creating art, so no arguing there.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, how does this prevent you from benefiting from the same feature set, from creating something stunning, meaningful and &#8211; according to your own morals and understanding &#8211; right, as a work of art?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, cameras are cameras, and they film all sorts of things.  They took pin-ups and worse, then captured nature in a way that&#8217;s impossible to relive in real life;  they allowed geniuses to create films like \u201cWhiplash\u201d and \u201c12 Angry Men,\u201d but\u2026 \u201cThe Avengers\u201d was also shot with a camera.<\/p>\n<p>So what, we hate cameras now?<\/p>\n<p>Some of them are products, some of them are art, but all of them are made real through the same type of technology and given meaning by you, the viewer.  So it&#8217;s a bit hypocritical of us to call Google evil here for creating the <span>Pixel 8 Pro<\/span> great, right?<\/p>\n<h2>Pixel > Reflex;  Don&#8217;t try to change my mind<\/h2>\n<div id=\"gallery-6fb72495-9b73-4fde-9479-995a04359baa\" class=\"single-image-container full-width-element\">\n<div class=\"gallery-item\">\n<picture style=\"padding-top: 66.759259259259%\"><source media=\"(max-width: 350px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 351px) and (max-width: 500px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 501px) and (max-width: 800px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1697210258_53_The-Pixel-8-Pro-didnt-kill-photography-Google-is-just.jpg\" alt=\"Plus, they don't really make DSLR cameras in blue.  |  Image credit \u2014 Phone Arena - The Pixel 8 Pro does not have \"tu\u00e9 la photographie\", Google essaie juste de vous faire \u00e9conomiser de l'argent !  Voici comment\" class=\"lazy\" data-id=\"407006\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1697210258_53_The-Pixel-8-Pro-didnt-kill-photography-Google-is-just.jpg\" alt=\"Plus, they don't really make DSLR cameras in blue.  |  Image credit \u2014 Phone Arena - The Pixel 8 Pro does not have \"tu\u00e9 la photographie\", Google essaie juste de vous faire \u00e9conomiser de l'argent !  Voici comment\"\/><\/noscript><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>Plus, they don&#8217;t really make DSLR cameras in blue.  |  Image credit \u2014 Phone Arena<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let me tell you something that always makes people around the table gasp: since I bought my Pixel 6a, I sold my DSLR.<\/p>\n<p>For context: I&#8217;m a photography graduate with a successful freelance career in design and production.  And I&#8217;m not afraid of AI: I&#8217;m looking forward to it.  Because 99.9% of my clients do not know the difference between a photo produced by my Lumix and my <span>Pixel 6a<\/span>so what does it matter if I add AI into the mix?<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s only the case because I learned how to use these amazing features that Google has blessed me with.  There&#8217;s a lot of effort that goes into taking a final photo and at some point I realized it doesn&#8217;t matter if I spend that time on my phone or on my camera and then in Photoshop and Lightroom, and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ugh.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nThe time costs weren&#8217;t the same either, so if that&#8217;s the case, why wouldn&#8217;t I use the all-in-one solution that is my Pixel instead?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it would also allow me to have more <a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/869\/6845b4c04a74636336789187beb857b5\/\">time to work<\/a> &#8211; as I see fit and feel right &#8211; on my novel and my proper artistic desires, because they are not products and they cannot really be rushed, AI or not, at least from my point of view and for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s anyone who should be worried about the rise of AI and taking over our jobs, it&#8217;s me.  All the things I do for a living are things that AI is getting better at: writing, imaging, editing, designing, and even coding!<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t make me afraid of technology.  It makes me want more free time.  Because ChatGPT and Bard may eat away at their hearts, but they&#8217;re not likely to produce the finishing touches like I can, or like the designers and photographers of the world who really matter (don&#8217;t put me next to them or whatever it is, but you get the point).<\/p>\n<p>And if that ever happens: fine, I&#8217;ll come back and edit this article to say so (if the AI \u200b\u200bhasn&#8217;t gotten me fired by then).  But right now, I&#8217;m not skeptical or fearful, I&#8217;m excited about whatever Google is up to with AI.<\/p>\n<p>THE <a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/2545\/original_title-17\/\">Pixel 8 Pro<\/a> is the best Pixel yet and I would totally sell my DSLR to get one.  Better yet: I can&#8217;t wait to see what Google does in the future with AI.  Because if the company keeps up this pace, I might just <a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/623\/oneplus-open-could-put-the-kibosh-on-pixel-fold-ad-claim_id151541\/\">stop paying Adobe altogether and subscribe to the Google Pixel<\/a> ideology forever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI \u200b\u200bis awesome. And I can say this: I was an early adopter of Cleverbot, with tons of hours logged with it, I was a tester for ChatGPT and now I also got pretty early access at Bard, and I love it, because collaborating with a robot to create a custom watch face is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[961,70,841,962,699,963,71,73,597],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-didnt","tag-google","tag-heres","tag-kill","tag-money","tag-photography","tag-pixel","tag-pro","tag-save"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}