I figured it was already a two-class system, like musicians. You\'ve got your superstars who do it full time and make a living off of it, and do very well; and you\'ve got everyone else, the Underlings. Youve got Weekend Warriors, Wannabes, and Camera Heros. Some of the Underlings have technical ability and are on their fast-track to living the rock-and-roll lifestyle of a burdened busy professional photographer, others know how to take a decent portrait and toss a plugin on top of it and sell it for a few bucks, being famous on myspace, etc. I don\'t think too much will change. All that\'s changed is the tools.
We\'ve got faster-than-ever computers available to the public but you don\'t see many people quantifying variables for the eventual building of a Flux Capacitor in their basement.
We\'ve got higher quality video cameras available, but the public\'s not putting out Transformers 3 starring my friend\'s nephew and my next door neighbor. Sure, extreme examples, but it will always boil down to the truely talented. Not everyone is willing to put the time, effort, skill, and passion into photography as most of us are going to do.
We\'ve got WebMD and other websites available out there to help figure out what\'s wrong with us. This curbs a few visits to the doctor, of course, but in the end, there will always be a ruptured spleen that duct tape can\'t fixed. Same thing here. People will always need a higher level of service from a professional.
We will for the most part always be safe, because we\'re better than everyone else.
I figured it was already a two-class system, like musicians. You\'ve got your superstars who do it full time and make a living off of it, and do very well; and you\'ve got everyone else, the Underlings. Youve got Weekend Warriors, Wannabes, and Camera Heros. Some of the Underlings have technical ability and are on their fast-track to living the rock-and-roll lifestyle of a burdened busy professional photographer, others know how to take a decent portrait and toss a plugin on top of it and sell it for a few bucks, being famous on myspace, etc. I don\'t think too much will change. All that\'s changed is the tools.
We\'ve got faster-than-ever computers available to the public but you don\'t see many people quantifying variables for the eventual building of a Flux Capacitor in their basement.
We\'ve got higher quality video cameras available, but the public\'s not putting out Transformers 3 starring my friend\'s nephew and my next door neighbor. Sure, extreme examples, but it will always boil down to the truely talented. Not everyone is willing to put the time, effort, skill, and passion into photography as most of us are going to do.
We will for the most part always be safe, because we\'re better than everyone else.
Dec 11, 2008 at 04:20 PM
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