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"Human" Is the New "Natural Light"
"natural light" and "human" as insights to our discomfort with new tech.
 • Leah Fasten
I missed International Women's Day because it was on a Sunday. Here's what some GenAI Ladies were up to that day.
GenAI women living their best Sunday while I was asleep and an hour behind.
 • Leah Fasten
My sucessful photography career: It's always been about good taste and intuition.
Ezra Klein and Anthropic's Jack Clark say the scarcest skill in the AI era is good taste and intuition. A photographer who lived through the…
 • Leah Fasten
Visual Journal: February 2026
I turn my morning journal fragments into Midjourney prompts. Here are 12 images from 28 days of practice.
 • Leah Fasten
GenAI Images of Kids
I use Adobe Firefly and a kids-free custom style model to generate kids, then composite them in NanoBanana. It raises real questions about ethics…
 • Leah Fasten
Glitching in the Mid-2000s
In the mid-2000s, I carried a 16-bit digital back everywhere for better highlights. People questioned if it was real photography. Twenty years later…
 • Leah Fasten
Leah Fasten on AI, Photography, and Why You Should Just Go Make Freaking Great Work
Field Notes from the Intersection of Photography & AI
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GenAI Editorial Portraits: Job Description Jargon as Prompts
I turned corporate jargon from job descriptions into Midjourney prompts for magazine-style portraits.
 • Leah Fasten
Why GenAI Images Feel Fake: The Missing Distance
GenAI imagery fails when it collapses the space between photographer and subject. That space is where trust lives.
 • Leah Fasten
Adobe Firefly Custom Models: Training AI on My Photography Archive
I trained a custom model on my studio portraits, then generated new images of students.
 • Leah Fasten
Lighting in a GenAI Photo Studio: Test 01
I'm testing how lighting prompts, backgrounds, and wardrobe work in Adobe Firefly Boards and NanoBanana. Same technical knowledge, different tool.
 • Leah Fasten
Visual Journal: January 2026
I turn my morning journal fragments into Midjourney prompts. Here are 23 images from 31 days of practice.
 • Leah Fasten
Creating With AI, Not Over It: Why I Embrace GenAI Mistakes
There's a deadness in the work when I force a specific outcome. It's better to play with the tool and let mistakes become the work.
 • Leah Fasten
GenAI Fashion Styling: Get Ready With Me 01
I'm building outfits like paper dolls: sewing patterns + Midjourney surface design + AI-generated talent + imagined places.
 • Leah Fasten
Okay, Unscripted!
Okay, Unscripted!
Commercial photographer with deep human and imperfect roots. Community builder. Creative lead. Join me on the wild edge of image making + GenAI. The light is a little brighter here.
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