Ryan Laux

A forward-looking conversation on how AI is being incorporated into commercial photography workflows, from pre-production ideation to post-production delivery. Panelists share how these tools are reshaping the industry and what photographers need to know to stay relevant, creative, and competitive.

Ryan demonstrates two techniques that redefine what a photographer can do with existing images: recreating the classic Matrix-style bullet time effect using just two cameras in tandem with the latest in AI generation tools, and using AI to manipulate imagery in previously impossible ways, changing the lighting of an image, removing or adding elements, and even turning a still photograph into a layered, animatable video element faster than ever. Ryan walks through his process using both Adobe Photoshop and After Effects as his toolset to accomplish unique and stylized results. His philosophy throughout is the same — input real imagery to enhance with AI, never generating from scratch. Conversation in collaboration with Adobe.

Hyperlapse is the marriage of timelapse and stop-motion animation, where every frame is carefully aligned with the previous to allow a camera to move seamlessly through time. Ryan, who has shot hyperlapses commercially and leisurely around the world, walks through his full shooting and editing process, including long-exposure night variations and 360-camera approaches.