278 Ready, Steady, Compete!

The Future of Photography

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So, you thought photography was a creative endeavour? Well, it turns out, if you want to compete there is a formula to hit.

There are people in the world whose job it is to tell you if you are doing photography right or wrong. How do they tell? See formula above. Do you agree? Is competitive photography even a valid concept?

Most important perhaps, are you now more inspired to push you art and craft further - or are you saddened at the formulisation of our beloved art?

All this and more is put to the test and Chris has used the rules to generate some "Award Winning" images 😀

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This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

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Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios

Chris Marquardt @[e-mail] (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

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Chapters

1. Introduction: The Future of Photography (00:00:00)

2. Reunion and Nostalgia (00:00:14)

3. Photography Competitions and Criteria for Judgment (00:01:59)

4. Questioning the value of paying for photography competitions (00:06:41)

5. Discomfort with the nature of competitive photography and rules (00:08:21)

6. Criticizing the arbitrary rules and lack of criteria in competitions (00:10:07)

7. The elusive nature of style and competition rules (00:14:52)

8. Specific rules can engage and inspire artists in competitions (00:18:16)

9. Satirical take on excessive rules in tomato gardening competition (00:20:09)

10. The Disqualification of Camera or Software-Based Editing (00:24:17)

11. Print Quality and the Intention of the Artist (00:26:37)

12. Limiting artistic exploration gets a thumbs down (00:27:47)

13. Creating a DALI 3 prompt and exploring image possibilities (00:29:43)

14. Playing with GPT-4's balancing and exploring image generation possibilities (00:32:18)

15. GPT-3: A Year of Amazing Advancements (00:33:21)

16. Sherwood: A Dazzling British Show Set in Nottingham (00:35:19)

17. Lightning Photographs: A Delightful Collection (00:37:20)

18. Conclusion and Call to Action: Subscribe, Find Show Notes (00:40:11)