Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/09

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Subject: [Leica] WAS: Selling gear NOW: Free shooters. :-(
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed Apr 9 20:50:35 2008
References: <20080409203333.2B88ABA1@resin15.mta.everyone.net>

There is an evolution going on, which technology forces on you. I bet for
every photography job lost, there are two or three created in post
production....
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Alastair Firkin <afirkin@afirkin.com>
wrote:

> Ted, this is the true situation indeed. It will turn, when people begin to
> want better results, but the "gear" is allowing many people to make
> recognizable images in even bad situations. In our local paper there are 
> now
> 3 weekly articles on photography every week: this in tne TV guide section.
> Photography has NEVER been so popular.
>
> --- tedgrant@shaw.ca wrote:Unfortunately I'm wasting my breath and typing
> time because nothing will
> change.
>
> What does have to change is professional photographers no matter who, have
> to move with the times and go with the flow in finding another discipline
> of
> photography where they can earn a decent living. WHY? Because whining
> about
> all the free stuff isn't going to change as long as you have the hordes
> and
> hordes of digi-shooters who claim to be photographers when they wouldn't
> know a good photograph from a dung heap!
>
> But they sure as hell know how to make digi operated electronic  exposures
> of nothing!
>
> ted
>
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] WAS: Selling gear NOW: Free shooters. :-()