Rookie "professional photographers" are destroying photography careers
Don is correct. Now you have to cater to a certain segment of the market, which means you have to be on top of your game.
Now every time there has been a new format in photography the old time users said it was to the end of the art as a whole. When they were shooting tin/silver types, and glass plates came along, making it easier to mass produce photos, the metal shooters complained. Later along came film, and the complaints were even worse, because first film could be massively produced, and second anyone could buy it, and their own little lightbox to use it in. Granted the early mass produced cameras were pretty much junk, but to people then they were great. Then the technology in cameras, and film changed even more making it even easier. more pros complained, even though their business did not suffer a whole lot. Face it most people still went to a formal studio for family portraits, or had an actual pro come to events for quality. The only ones who are ever fully flushed out in any of these cycles are the ones who were not at the top of the food chain. And the top of the food chain is where you have to be to be in this as a business, or you are doomed to fight it out with the bottom, which means you can be easily eaten by the hungrier ones. Personally I have never wanted to shoot professionally, to me it would kill the enjoyment I get from it, and have received for the past 40+ years.
Why so serious?
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