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@vlad
I wonder if painters seeing a camera for the first time felt the same way as artists seeing Stable Diffusion today...
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@gabewise
Photographers in the 1830s/40s were explicitly referred to as “directors” and not “operators” for exactly this reason.
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@vlad
Yes, but it is really true! The photographer is responsible for the composition, finding the subjects, the settings. Artists are responsible for the prompt, seed image, params
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