You seem to think that there weren\'t hacks before digital made it easier to become a photographer. There were plenty of bad to middling photographers that people used because there were far fewer choices.
I say that the explosion of people offering their services is a fabulously good thing for the industry. If people are happy paying less and getting what they want, then the market has expanded, and ultimately provided more work for photographers in general. You\'ll see in a few years that the industry is going to transform itself into something that you can barely recognize. It\'s going to hurt some people, but it\'ll help a lot more.
Photography has never been about selling f/stops or shutter speeds. It\'s about marketing and salesmanship, the technical details don\'t matter to anyone but photographers. Customers care about pictures that capture them in a good likeness, or capturing an emotion
you see this in all the time in photography business threads and forums. Photographers who complain about other \"photographers\" and the business they are getting. I wonder if it\'s like that on carpenter forums. Or those plumbers complaining about amateur plumbers stealing their business
I\'m not complaining about them taking any business. They do nothing to me, as I\'ve made clear, I do not do portraiture photography on a professional level, which is where the big problem is in this industry. I\'m complaining about the lack of moral fortitude in it all.
OK, so you\'re part of the photo morality squad watching out for the \"big problem in the industry\". I suppose you\'re also for government licensing to weed out the unmoral photogs.
if only those consumers would recognize the \"huge problem\"
You seem to think that there weren\'t hacks before digital made it easier to become a photographer. There were plenty of bad to middling photographers that people used because there were far fewer choices.
I say that the explosion of people offering their services is a fabulously good thing for the industry. If people are happy paying less and getting what they want, then the market has expanded, and ultimately provided more work for photographers in general. You\'ll see in a few years that the industry is going to transform itself into something that you can barely recognize. It\'s going to hurt some people, but it\'ll help a lot more.
Photography has never been about selling f/stops or shutter speeds. It\'s about marketing and salesmanship, the technical details don\'t matter to anyone but photographers. Customers care about pictures that capture them in a good likeness, or capturing an emotion
you see this in all the time in photography business threads and forums. Photographers who complain about other \"photographers\" and the business they are getting. I wonder if it\'s like that on carpenter forums. Or those plumbers complaining about amateur plumbers stealing their business
I\'m not complaining about them taking any business. They do nothing to me, as I\'ve made clear, I do not do portraiture photography on a professional level, which is where the big problem is in this industry. I\'m complaining about the lack of moral fortitude in it all.
OK, so you\'re part of the photo morality squad watching out for the \"big problem in the industry\". I suppose you\'re also for government licensing of photographers to weed out the unmoral photogs
