Doubtful. Just like having a large format camera doesn't mean you can use it, having a computer guarantees nothing. (Or owning a Les Paul guitar doesn't mean you can play it.) He needs a vision of what the image should be just like anyone else taking photos people want to look at. He's just willing to make it how he wants it.
Doubtful. Just like having a large format camera doesn't mean you can use it, having a computer guarantees nothing. (Or owning a Les Paul guitar doesn't mean you can play it.) He needs a vision of what the image should be just like anyone else taking photos people want to look at. He's just willing to make it how he wants it.
I'd rather sit through an hour and a half long concert presented by the local middle school students' orchestra than 10 seconds looking at some soul-less machine generated "photo-realistic" AI generated garbage. The first experience, although often very far from perfect, is quite enjoyable. Looking at AI generated images is the opposite of enjoyable. It, the reason for this difference, has something to do with our shared human experience....of which AI has has no clue, never will have.
Music played by a living breathing human, even if just learning is a dramatically different experience from a sonnet selected by a human from the pile of non-sense and gibberish generated by a million trained chimpanzees banging away on IBM Selectrics for 10 years.
I'm not sure where you got that idea. It took a second to find out he was in finance and decided abandon that and to return to photography, that he takes photos on location, that he uses handheld and remote-controlled cameras, that he's raised a lot of money for charity - but nothing about computer graphics.
He likely uses computers, because most people use digital cameras and photo editing software. That's not the same as computer graphics or AI.
@cliveh -- you weren't fooled, the guy is pretty good.
Interesting locations. The bar interiors are in Big Timber, just a bit east of where I live. The highway shots are likely on Hwy 191 just north of Big Timber. That highway, BTW, runs from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. I've motorcycled almost the complete length of it over that 4 years. Some of those exterior "old west town" look like they were shot at a venue on the east side of Bozeman that has a recreation of a western town.