Everyone's a Professional now ...

[oftheherd]

it's true. everyone is a professional now.

this reminded me of an episode from Judge Joe Brown and a "professional" wedding photographer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lz-07D5KoE

Who knew Judge Joe Brown was published? Well, obviously not the defendants. They were not even well enough informed to know when he was asking questions that they should have known the answers to. :bang:

Good grief!

 

[noisycheese]

The thinking these days seems to be along the lines of "Since everyone is a professional photographer nowadays, we shouldn't have to pay for photographs."

A funny thing happened at the camera store the other day. I went in to get a brick of Tri-X.

They wanted me to actually PAY for it! 😱

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Most of my photographer friends will no longer cop to being photographers. The kiddies really think a twenty-something invented the transistor in his dorm room 10 years ago.

A friend who is into cycling herd a couple of kids on their $5K bikes see a guy riding an old Eddy Merckx bike – “Who the Fuc# is Eddy Merckx, and what the Fuc# does that dude know about bikes? " Was heard.

I’m done with the children. I won’t work with any I don’t know well, or any not vetted by the few sane ones I can trust. Blankem!

I've been teaching English in an inner-city high school this year, and while a lot of the kids are brain-dead social-media addicts with zero attention span, there were a lot of kids in my classes who really wanted to learn about history, literature, and art and who thought on a level deeper than most adults I know. These kids were mostly poor kids from bad neighborhoods and broken homes and many of them just needed someone to see them as 'worth something'.

 

[pieter]

Boohoo
We're living in an age where we can make pictures at ridiculous high iso at near darkness, we can edit and print our own work immediately, we can distribute it all over the world at a blink of an eye, we have worldwide audiences looking at all kinds of pictures for big parts of their day, we can buy gear capable of publishable results for next to nothing, we can even take pictures with phones that are good enough, etc...

And we complain that the golden days of photography are over?

 

[Ansel]

This is not new. DTP opened up publishing to anyone a few decades ago. I do think it is a mistake to fire so many pro-photogs though.

 

[kaiwasoyokaze]

".. and broken homes and many of them just needed someone to see them as 'worth something'."

Hi Chris; I was one of "those kids" and would (have) help one that didn't have an attitude. I'm surrounded by rich kids from 3 very expensive art schools. I'll say no more.

I've been teaching English in an inner-city high school this year, and while a lot of the kids are brain-dead social-media addicts with zero attention span, there were a lot of kids in my classes who really wanted to learn about history, literature, and art and who thought on a level deeper than most adults I know. These kids were mostly poor kids from bad neighborhoods and broken homes and many of them just needed someone to see them as 'worth something'.

i can totally relate as I teach as well in a government funded public school in HK. I had a choice to make big $$$ to teach at an international school filled with rich brats or teach instead with poor government housing families. I did my time teaching these upper middle class brats in Korea and have no desire to do anymore of that.

 

[Lss]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lz-07D5KoE

On the topic (sort of) of advertisement, Youtube is becoming unusable with all those ads.

 

[henri klein]

so I 'm the last amateur

 

[j j]

Everyone's a Professional now ... Professional Photographers and Graphic Designers are no longer needed, when one can produce work to this standard in just a few minutes ...

... I photographed it with my phone to maintain it's artistic authenticity

It got your attention. You took a photo on your phone so you have their number. You even published it on the internet. An effective design. Job done. Elegant? No. But I don't ever recall seeing an elegant price list for hair cuts.

Professional photographers and designers have been putting garbage in hairdressers' windows for years. The only difference is they had the cheek to charge a fee.

 

[shadowfox]

Consultant bashing is like attorney bashing... popular sport until you need one.

Ain't that the truth,
I'm semi-used to that though, for example, one of my customers just plain refused to understand why I charge them what I charge. Until they switch to someone else and then had to ask me back to fix the mess they left behind.

 

[Sparrow]

It got your attention. You took a photo on your phone so you have their number. You even published it on the internet. An effective design. Job done. Elegant? No. But I don't ever recall seeing an elegant price list for hair cuts.

Professional photographers and designers have been putting garbage in hairdressers' windows for years. The only difference is they had the cheek to charge a fee.

All that's true enough if one aspires to an ugly environment I suppose

 

[noisycheese]

Ain't that the truth, Fred.
I'm semi-used to that though, for example, one of my customers just plain refused to understand why I charge them what I charge. Until they switch to someone else and then had to ask me back to fix the mess they left behind.

You get what you pay for, one way or another.

If you are really short sighted, you will get to pay for it twice, as in the above example.

If you are getting married and hire a hack photographer - "because he's cheaper" - who does a half-assed job, you will pay for it the rest of your life (or until you get divorced, whichever comes first).

Seen it happen more than once...