AI and photography in Valencia
Article in process of writing
Inspired by the article on AI applied to photography in Havana, Cuba.
Looking for Valencia in AI imagenes
It is surprising if we search in an AI image generation software (in my case I subscribe to midjourney) and type the word Valencia, we will find out what images users want to generate.
There are two groups of images that appear in the search engine.
1- Illustrations based on the city with a vintage style.
2- Interpretations of the "City of Arts and Sciences" in futuristic mode.
It has been a great surprise for me not to find any kind of street or detail photography (which after all was what I was looking for).
Ignorance of the IA to show falleras
The knowledge of the programs of AI imagenes about the typical costumes of our festivity (the fallas) is null.
It was amusing to discover how the images generated looked more like women from another era in French style as can be seen in the photos.
It seems that we are still obliged to take pictures of real people if we want to have pictures of authentic Valencian women with the regional costume of falleras.
No project to develop with AI in Valencia City
Although my knowledge of AI to generate images has been helpful for my project of Havana in the 50's, I have to say that at the moment I don't have any project that I want to create with AI related to Valencia.
I am a classic documentary photographer so my intention is to continue doing my photo tours in the streets of Valencia documenting with my camera the subjects that interest me.
Maybe in the future I will come up with some idea but for the moment I will keep walking with my camera through the streets of Valencia.
