AI Is Changing Photography & Music for Everyone
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[00:00:31] Scott Wyden Kivowitz: So here's the thing, my friends. music and photography, both industries are seeing artificial intelligence, ai, machine learning, really. Make a difference in what the, these creative people can do, right? but also what less creative people or creative people, but just like the average Joe Schmo, who doesn't own equipment, don't, doesn't own instruments, doesn't own [00:01:00] cameras and lighting and all the stuff, but they do have a computer, they have a laptop.
Could be a Chromebook, could be a Windows laptop, could be a Mac, doesn't matter. They have a computer with internet and a browser. 'cause all you need is Chrome and they have .Gemini with that they can spend, let's say they go to the $200 a year, the $300 a year plan from Google One, which has the AI stuff, like the premium AI features from Google, Gemini.
I, it's, it's at the point now where anybody with a computer can make photographs. I mean, they're not technically photographs 'cause they're made by it's ai, but they can prompt engineer imagery, digital artwork, that looks realistic. Now I just put out a video on my YouTube channel, so I, I hope you check it out and that the video is talk.
In it.
[00:01:56] Where AI Hits Hardest: Product, Real Estate & Automated Campaigns
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[00:02:00] Scott Wyden Kivowitz: I do talk about AI and its impact on photography [00:02:00] and how human-oriented photography like weddings are not gonna be as impacted, but real estate will be impacted, product photography will be impacted. and I think Google just proved it again with, what's it called? It is called, Elli. Pelli. It's POM oh p elli, P-O-M-E-L-L-I.
It you literally upload a product image, one image, and it creates all these campaigns off of the one image. It's creating a photo shoot. From the one image, it's creating your, your business DNA from your website, basically. So in that case, it really is putting like product photographers outta business to a point.
But with that said, AI is touching a variety of different things. It's touching photography, it's touching videography. 'cause that can now create a commercial without using a video camera just by typing to Gemini.
[00:02:50] The Music Crossover: Prompting AI to Write Songs
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[00:02:50] Scott Wyden Kivowitz: it could do a lot, but when we talk about the crossover photography and music, it's also important to remember that AI can also impact music.
So I did a little experiment [00:03:00] because now inside of Gemini, you could actually prompt it to create a song. I think it's about 30 seconds. There have been different, many different apps. I think one is called, Sona. Sono or something like that. But you can create music full two, three minute songs from a prompt.
It creates the lyrics, it creates the harmonies, it creates the beats, it creates the melody, everything and now I can do it in Gemini for free, basically. and it's creating up to 30 seconds. So I threw at it a prompt with very little input, just saying, create a song about photo, a photographer who was previously in a touring band.
That's all I told it. I didn't give it too many details, but I did pick some genres and I wanted to share with you in this episode the songs that it created.
[00:03:44] Adapt or Get Left Behind: Using AI in Your Creative Workflow
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[00:03:47] Scott Wyden Kivowitz: So this episode's just about this, the impact. It's not to scare you, but it's just to remind you that you need to adapt, okay? You need to adapt, you need to adopt and adapt with AI.
Use it in your photography business. [00:04:00] If you're a musician, use AI. Don't run from it, adopt it, put it into your songwriting, and recording and mixing workflow. When I record these episodes, I use AI to edit the episodes, it's an app called Descript. I also use Descript to clean up the audio when needed.
So if I have a guest, I'm cleaning up their audio mine's usually pretty clean 'cause I have a really good audio setup, but others may not. They might be using AirPods for example. So adapt and adopt AI into your workflow, whether it's photography, whether it's music, whether it's videography, use it. Don't be scared of it.
[00:04:39] Setting Up the Gemini Song Experiment (Genres + Lyrics On Screen)
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[00:04:39] Scott Wyden Kivowitz: So with that said, the next what, two minutes or so are going to be music created by Google Gemini. With that little prompt that I told you and I did it for, emo was one of the genres, jazz, pop, folk. And it might have, yeah, I think I did four, but I could do it for anything. So enjoy these songs [00:05:00] and I'll have the lyrics up on the screen.
So if you're watching the video version of this, you can see the lyrics that Google Gemini came up with as well.
[00:05:10] Gemini Songs
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The seasons turn on this winding road. Trading amplifiers for a patient lens used to chase the sunrise, carrying a heavy load. Now every quiet moment is something to comprehend. I frame these landscapes in gold and dust and find a different kind of shelter in the light, a quiet or kind of noise I've learned to trust since I stopped playing songs beneath the stadium Light.
Used to live life in a neon blur. Now a single frame is what I prefer. Traded stadium lights for morning gold. A different kind of story to be told. My lens is [00:06:00] my new voice lens.
The final chord has long since faded out trading spotlights for a different story to chase. Now the cameras click finds truth in every doubt, framing, stolen moments in time and space. These lenses are my new way to. Sing the blues, each frame a quiet rhythm, a different hue. My lens is my new way to sing the blues.
My lens is my new way to sing.
The shutter clicks a memory that starts to fray, remembering the sound of those forgotten days, forted in the headphones on a faded state line. Now it's just a lonely tripod, a different design, and a framing up. The ghost in the rear view mirror. These lenses on my new [00:07:00] microphone, but the quiets never clearer.
I'm still looking for that perfect shot of a diving catch, but all I ever find is an emotional dispatch.