very true... but if you have your family portrait done... 50 years from now all you have is the print... which will probably be degraded at least somewhat by the years, you won\'t have the photographers negative... so it\'s pretty much the same. Snapshots are the same, I doubt most people hang on to their negatives and if they do, it\'s rarely in any cohesive searchable way.
The question was whether all these hundreds of thousands of cell phone pictures are reducing the market for professional and traditional portraits. My contention is that they don\'t have any effect on the market for professional and traditional portraits.
The wall portraits I sell my clients are produced with the current best knowledge of archival processing and museum conservation framing. I also include with the wall portrait the image in JPEG and TIFF formats on a gold archival CD as a back-up to the print.
All you have is the print
Having a print is a great thing, even if degraded, compared to having nothing. I have a \"degraded\" portrait of my maternal great-great-grandparents--a courageous pioneer couple that migrated west after the Civil War and ran in one of the Oklahoma land rushes. They were a historical turning point in my family history, and as I tell their stories to my children and soon to my grandchildren, I will have that portrait to show them.
Jun 15, 2009 at 12:54 PM
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