2024 10 02
Self-promotional Wednesday! Today, through next Wednesday, I am doing my āKeep it 100ā portrait setup at my See You Soon studio. If youāre in the Chicagoland area, check it out and come shoot with me! Itās a ton of fun, super affordable, the images are great, and Iām having a hell of a time getting people to come out for it!
Seriously, though, Iām being a bit hard on myself. Iāve already done at least fifty of these sessions if not many more (brain blur) but in my head the deal is so good there should be a line down the block. Iāll get up some more thoughts about all this later this week, I think.
In the meantime, click this link, book a session, and come shoot with me why donāt you?!
-Clayton
Portrait of Anne. Chicago, Illinois. July, 2024. Ā© Clayton Hauck
Self-promotional Wednesday! Today, through next Wednesday, I am doing my āKeep it 100ā portrait setup at my See You Soon studio. If youāre in the Chicagoland area, check it out and come shoot with me! Itās a ton of fun, super affordable, the images are great, and Iām having a hell of a time getting people to come out for it!
Seriously, though, Iām being a bit hard on myself. Iāve already done at least fifty of these sessions if not many more (brain blur) but in my head the deal is so good there should be a line down the block. Iāll get up some more thoughts about all this later this week, I think.
In the meantime, click this link, book a session, and come shoot with me why donāt you?!
-Clayton
2024 06 22
Hello loyal daily photo blog readers (mom & dad)! This coming week, and the week thereafter, I will be offering my insanely-priced $100 portrait sessions at the studio. If youāre in need of one-hundred unique new images of yourself, book a session and come shoot with me! Itās a ton of fun and Iāll soon be raising the price because this deal is going to lead me to financial ruin if I keep it up much longer.
Anyway, hope to see you soon!
-Clayton
Dinah, photographed in my āKeep It 100ā setup at my See You Soon studio. Chicago, Illinois. December, 2023. Ā© Clayton Hauck
Hello loyal daily photo blog readers (mom & dad)! This coming week, and the week thereafter, I will be offering my insanely-priced $100 portrait sessions at the studio. If youāre in need of one-hundred unique new images of yourself, book a session and come shoot with me! Itās a ton of fun and Iāll soon be raising the price because this deal is going to lead me to financial ruin if I keep it up much longer.
Anyway, hope to see you soon!
-Clayton
2024 05 15
Just a quick update today as Iām still buried in work with no time for blogginā
Iām offering my Keep it 100 $100 portrait sessions at the studio this week. If youāre in town and need some new photos of yourself, book a session and come see me!
-Clayton
Charlie poses during one of my Keep it 100 sessions at the studio. December, 2023. Chicago, Illinois. Ā© Clayton Hauck
Just a quick update today as Iām still buried in work with no time for blogginā
Iām offering my Keep it 100 $100 portrait sessions at the studio this week. If youāre in town and need some new photos of yourself, book a session and come see me!
-Clayton
2024 05 07
Following my own advice from yesterdayās entry, I checked out another from Paulie Bās amazing Walkie Talkie series, this time featuring another photographer I was not previously familiar with by the name of Sara Messinger. I think the kids are alright! Beyond being introduced to another talented name, I loved the contrasting styles, approaches, and philosophies between Sara and Trevor, who was the previous subject of yesterdayās post. Throughout the entire forty-minute video, Iām not sure Sara made a single image, while Trevor finished like a dozen rolls and got into a few heated moments with strangers-who-became-subjects.
Partly why I loved this video with Sara is because she constantly reminded me of my own partner Allison, whereas Iām probably a bit more like Trevor. We all see the world a bit different and approach photography in our own ways. Itās also rather fascinating to contemplate how street photography has changed since I was their age wandering the streets with a camera. People these days are far more sensitive and aware about what might happen when a stranger makes a photo of them on the street without their consent.
Thatās a deeper debate for another day, but letās leave it there for now. Compete less; put yourself out there more; open yourself up to connect with your subjects as thatās how the magical moments are made. Thanks for your positive energy, Sara.
-Clayton
Dinah in front of the camera for my Keep it 100 portrait session. Chicago, Illinois. December, 2023. Ā© Clayton Hauck
Following my own advice from yesterdayās entry, I checked out another from Paulie Bās amazing Walkie Talkie series, this time featuring another photographer I was not previously familiar with by the name of Sara Messinger. I think the kids are alright! Beyond being introduced to another talented name, I loved the contrasting styles, approaches, and philosophies between Sara and Trevor, who was the previous subject of yesterdayās post. Throughout the entire forty-minute video, Iām not sure Sara made a single image, while Trevor finished like a dozen rolls and got into a few heated moments with strangers-who-became-subjects.
Partly why I loved this video with Sara is because she constantly reminded me of my own partner Allison, whereas Iām probably a bit more like Trevor. We all see the world a bit different and approach photography in our own ways. Itās also rather fascinating to contemplate how street photography has changed since I was their age wandering the streets with a camera. People these days are far more sensitive and aware about what might happen when a stranger makes a photo of them on the street without their consent.
Thatās a deeper debate for another day, but letās leave it there for now. Compete less; put yourself out there more; open yourself up to connect deeply with your subjects, as thatās how the magical moments are made. Thanks for your positive energy, Sara.
-Clayton
2024 03 18
Itās Monday. Back to workā¦
Hereās a little self promotion. I do a really fun portrait setup in my studio where I offer $100 portrait sessions in which participants get 100 unique photos of themselves. No AI, no fancy Photoshop tricks, just a unique approach to good old fashioned portrait photography.
ā”ļø You can check out more about the process, or book a session next time Iām offering it, here on the studio page.
-Clayton
Filmmaker & educator Anu Rana in my See You Soon studio as a subject in my Keep it 100 portrait setup. February, 2024. Ā© Clayton Hauck
Itās Monday. Back to workā¦
Hereās a little self promotion. I do a really fun portrait setup in my studio where I offer $100 portrait sessions in which participants get 100 unique photos of themselves. No AI, no fancy Photoshop tricks, just a unique approach to good old fashioned portrait photography.
-Clayton
2024 03 02
AI sources its āinspirationā from existing imagery. They grab millions, if not billions, of images and feed them into a massive neural computer network. Many, if not most, of the images are made by artists with no interest in training a computer model. Some of the images are illegal. Child pornography that got sucked into the system in the corporate drive to automate systems to train other systems on the biggest pool of imagery possible.
What interests me is what happens in 5-10 years when (if?) most content is AI generated. It will become a Digital Doom Loop of artificial reality. AI systems training themselves on artificial material made by other AI systems ad infinitum. Language will shift based on what the computers interpret to be language. If we canāt understand the computers, weāll lose our grip on them, so weāll be forced to bend to their automated will.
Anyway, have a nice weekend.
-Clayton
An outtake from my āKeep it 100ā portrait sessions. Chicago, Illinois. January, 2024. Ā© Clayton Hauck
AI sources its āinspirationā from existing imagery. They grab millions, if not billions, of images and feed them into a massive neural computer network. Many, if not most, of the images are made by artists with no interest in training a computer model. Some of the images are illegal. Child pornography that got sucked into the system in the corporate drive to automate systems to train other systems on the biggest pool of imagery possible.
What interests me is what happens in 5-10 years when (if?) most content is AI generated. It will become a Digital Doom Loop of artificial reality. AI systems training themselves on artificial material made by other AI systems ad infinitum. Language will shift based on what the computers interpret to be language. If we canāt understand the computers, weāll lose our grip on them, so weāll be forced to bend to their automated will.
Anyway, have a nice weekend.
-Clayton