Jason Morrison
Am I slow to the game if I admit that I am just now dipping my toe into the AI waters? Does it make me old school that I am not creating a Reel or YouTube about it, but instead, writing a blog like some ancient mummy?
Either way, here we are.
One of the biggest inspirations for testing out AI with camera images comes from photographer and artist Andrea Pizzini. I came across this Sony image that he created using AI and thought it was fantastic.
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I love the images he has created with Sony cameras. Just some really fun and creative work. His focus, given that he is a Sony shooter, is obviously to create Sony-related images. Which naturally led me down the film photography path to see what I may be able to create.
At first, I started with just some simple commands, mainly to give me a better understanding of where I could start. The images below were to be of a film camera outside of an abandoned home. My goal was to create a dystopian environment and I think the AI did a great job with that.
I thought the apocalyptic vibe was great in these and it brought back memories of watching and reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy for some reason. With a slight adjustment to the commands, the images changed entirely. Specifying the type of film camera, such as 35mm opposed to just saying “film camera” produced vastly different results. I wanted to see what 35mm style cameras it would create, but with a military twist.
It should be obvious here that with specific inputs, the AI will create something closer to what you want. For example, telling it to create a 35mm camera will give you specific results compared to telling it to just create a camera. With lack of instructions, it tends to be more varied.
Where I think Andrea did so well was pushing the visual of the bio-mechanical elements into the camera image itself. Thinking along those lines, I brought some H.R. Giger into the mix to create some of my favorite images in this experiment.
A final experiment was to take some of the inputs I had been using, mix them around a bit, and then try to bring even more of an H.R. Giger flare into the image. Once I had a few images to work with, I upscaled them in AI and then brought in additional elements from the Aliens movie. Here was one of the results that I liked the best:
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