Here's how you can ready yourself for artificial intelligence's influence on the photography industry.

Absolutely! The integration of AI in photography offers numerous advantages that can significantly enhance your workflow and creative output. AI-powered software can quickly enhance photos by adjusting lighting, color balance, and sharpness, saving you hours of manual editing. Tools like Luminar AI and Adobe's Sensei can apply specific artistic styles to your photos, giving them a unique look with minimal effort.

In this current time of change with the emerging field of AI, it is most important to stay true to yourself. Use them as the tools they are, do not let them shape you.

Use AI-powered editing software to automate repetitive tasks, such as colour correction, background removal, and skin retouching, allowing you to focus on the creative aspects. Invest in cameras and drones that utilize AI for better autofocus, subject tracking, and scene recognition, improving the quality of your shots. Implement AI chatbots on your website to handle inquiries, schedule bookings, and provide instant customer support, enhancing client experience.

Things I've found useful are platforms such as LinkedIn Learning, Udemy and Coursera , which offer courses specifically on AI in photography, image processing, and automated editing.

The one mastering the use of AI can take advantage of it – instead of seeing it as a problem. When it comes to photography, you sometimes don't really need to learn all parts of how to use it – instead try to pinpoint the parts where AI could be usable for you: time saver, mood-boarding, new ideas and automated workflow.

AI excels at automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks, such as sorting, tagging, and basic editing. This allows you to focus more on the creative aspects of your work. Set yourself creative challenges to push your boundaries and encourage experimentation. This could involve using unfamiliar equipment, shooting in different environments, or exploring new genres.

It is important photographers take time to recognize the work of their colleagues and highlight the content that can only be captured with the human eye. A lot of this requires us to protect copyrights, arguing loudly against misuse of copywritten material.

Then more AI you put into your work, the less of you is left in it. Great tool, crap master. Yes, it's brilliant at batch crunching jobs, but I really don't get why you would surrender your creative choices to it. If you need AI to help bulk edit images for colour grade etc, isn't the problem you've shot too many images, not edited them effectively or you haven't mastered a style of your own and created bespoke presets? Isn't that the workflow issue you're facing? AI looks at billions of other people's work and tells you, "you know, the majority of them would do it like this", once I think that's where my creativity is at, I should probably like, be a dog-walker instead. Much more rewarding…