My Thoughts Exactly
The Minnesota ban has been in the works for at least a year, and it has been amended to protect professional photo editors who run apps like Photoshop.
This is a good article about something I've not tried yet. I've written a lot about using RAW on the iPhone over on my photo blog at InTheViewfinder.com, but I've never used Halide's "Process Zero" options. That will be my next iPhone photo adventure.
"Instead of stacking multiple exposures and applying Apple’s entire imaging pipeline, Process Zero captures a single frame with minimal intervention. No Smart HDR. No Deep Fusion. No aggressive sharpening."
"While working photographers in 2026 grapple with AI technology affecting their career, one of the issues raised by Davison’s social media survey and Vogue is what happens to the young photographers who are breaking into the industry. If AI is taking away the boring jobs given to low-level clients that photographers like Davison cut their teeth on, then how will young photographers ever get a chance?"
"The only equipment that truly matters is your own capacity to notice and the only metric that counts is whether you can hijack the human nervous system." In the end, the real win is the moment that stops someone in their tracks, regardless of the sharpness of the image, the resolution, or the dynamic range of the color.
“Photographers don’t want their photos to look like they were created by AI. They still want to be recognized as people who practice photography — not promtography.”
This is my stance when I'm editing my photos. I want to keep the creative control. I use AI for masking, removing an object that is the way, stuff that might have taken me a long time to do in the past. But I'm not using it for creative editing at scale.
Of course, this post doesn't really mention Matterport, but I can't help but watch the videos in the creation process and look at the end result. I can't help but think that, if I were Matterport, I might be just a bit concerned about how quickly technology is encroaching on a space that was once uniquely theirs.