Lately I’ve been exploring creative uses of GenAI. Here are some of my recent images.

Inspired by my experience as a cyclist this winter, I used myself as the model for the first two. AI can make dynamic, elaborate images very quickly, but often you’ll need to feature or include specific people, locations or objects, so I’ve been experimenting with techniques to include and integrate these in generated images.

One area where AI has evolved shockingly fast, is the creation of ‘lifestyle’ imagery. Realistic everyday scenes showing ordinary people. This is the bread-and-butter of marketing and advertising. Something that, until recently, would have involved locations, photographers, models, stylists, wardrobe, props, etc. The fact that AI can now replace all of that with a descriptive prompt followed by some variations, remixes and edits gives me no pleasure, but the reality is upon us and we must embrace the new technology and the possibilities it offers.

If you give minimal prompts, you can get beautiful, random, magical, weird results. It’s more challenging to create a specific abstract image. Here’s a re-visualisation of a concept I mocked up a while ago.