10/21/2026
Will you edit my photos? Yes! 🥰 But...
Here’s a question you’re probably not asking: How and when do you use AI in your business? 🤔
Artificial Intelligence has been around for decades, under names like Machine Learning or Speech Recognition. I don’t claim to be an expert because I’m a photographer, not a software engineer 😅 But when I refer to being “anti-AI,” I mean Generative AI. You know... the models that create those slop flyers, deepfakes, and even entire Internet personas?
It’s important to know how your photographer uses AI and decide if that aligns with your values.
Here is a short list of how AI is never used in my practice:
✍🏽 All the words on my website and social media are written by me. If I sound like AI, you can thank my college writing programs.
👀 I actually read your emails, and reply with my own hands. I don’t use AI summarizations, suggestions, or voice-to-text.
📸 Visuals on my website and social media are photos taken by me, or are visuals designed by another human.
⛅ Timeline planning is rooted in experience, not ChatGPT.
However, I recognize that AI can be an assistive tool. Here’s a very honest admission of how I use AI in two cases.
✂️ AI culling can be helpful to sort images and assess the best, in-focus, eyes-open frame. However, I never trust it blindly and will still quickly put my eyeballs on each RAW just to make sure.
💻 A complicated distraction removal, but only after I’ve exhausted other tools. I might use techniques like combining images, clone stamp distractions, or even do a face swap. I won’t ever default to the generative AI removal tool if I can do it by another method.
So when choosing your photographer, keep in mind that you are selecting human expertise to do the hard work of planning your session and guiding you through your experience. The time you waited for your gallery reflects the time it took your photographer to select the best images and make them look amazing 🫶🏽
I hope this post was helpful in understanding how I navigate my photography business in an actively evolving technological hellscape. I mean landscape ✌🏽
