Photographer Creates Unique AI-Generated Retro Dog Portraits for Bereaved Pet Owners
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Photographer Jim Henderson is using AI to create unique retro-style dog posters for clients as a side business. The posters are proving popular, though not yet paying all the bills.
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Henderson gets dog owners to fill out a profile about their dog's personality to inform the AI image generation rather than just submitting a photo.
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He uses Midjourney to create the images, but finds he often has to refine and rerun the prompts multiple times to get a good result. The images are then perfected in Photoshop.
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While concerned that AI could threaten photography jobs down the line, Henderson sees it as here to stay and thinks photographers need to figure out how to utilize it.
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The dog posters bring people joy, especially those who have lost their pets and want something other than just a photo to remember them by.