> One could argue that generating portraits with Midjourney is actually harder than taking real photographs, since photographers spend only milliseconds taking their photos whereas prompt engineers sometimes spend hours copying text from PromptHero or Lexica and pasting it into Discord.
LOL...
- a photographer needs to find the right model, it just can't 3D print it.
- the model needs the right clothes, you just can't 3D print that
- the model needs the right make up
- the model needs the right haircut.
- the photographer needs to make the model take the pose he envisioned.
- the photographer needs to chose the right spot to take a picture
- the photographer needs to take that picture at the right time of a day
- the photographer needs to chose the right lenses
- the photographer needs to get the right lighting equipment, place the lights correctly and so on and so forth.
and I'm sparing you the details of all the steps in post production...
in the meantime, a magical prompt did generate 10,000 images as your alleged hard working "prompt engineer" simply had to enter a few sentences in a text area or just copy paste another prompt with slight changes, zero photograph experience needed.
So no, being a photographer is much harder (and expensive) than using midjourney.
LOL...
- a photographer needs to find the right model, it just can't 3D print it.
- the model needs the right clothes, you just can't 3D print that
- the model needs the right make up
- the model needs the right haircut.
- the photographer needs to make the model take the pose he envisioned.
- the photographer needs to chose the right spot to take a picture
- the photographer needs to take that picture at the right time of a day
- the photographer needs to chose the right lenses
- the photographer needs to get the right lighting equipment, place the lights correctly and so on and so forth.
and I'm sparing you the details of all the steps in post production...
in the meantime, a magical prompt did generate 10,000 images as your alleged hard working "prompt engineer" simply had to enter a few sentences in a text area or just copy paste another prompt with slight changes, zero photograph experience needed.
So no, being a photographer is much harder (and expensive) than using midjourney.