From: Claudio Corvino
Nothing new: in the early '70s I went to some factory with my 5x7"
camera taking photographs of some large installation, the customer, showingThis is the real problem as I see it. Emotion aside, it is the public's, and worse than that, many young photo buyers' inability to feel anything for images other than how cheap they can get them for. The larger agencies are starting to do more work for hire/slashing of rates and the rest of the market below them thinks that Martha in acounting can shoot the job with her new digi-point-n-shoot. Since the person needing the images made is only looking to get something equal in quality to some junk on the web he saw yesterday, then Martha's 2mg, blown out trash is all good to him. Chalk up another professional job removed from the market, at least for now.
his Instamatic camera said "I could take this photo by myself, but I'm so busy..."
The hope we all have, and that has been expressed in this thread, is that the hacks will screw up enough "jobs" that these buyers will return to their senses and direct work back to those equiped and experienced enough to handle it. Time will tell, and in the meantime I'm looking for a good accounting job so I can be a photographer again...
Robert
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