We all helped to speed the demise of professional photographers
A picture-sharing site like Flickr contains the work of tens of thousands of talented amateurs, all of them capable of producing one or two photographs a year that could be published anywhere. If only 1% of the pictures on Flickr are publishable, that would mean 1.5m usable pictures uploaded there every year. Most of the drudgery of identifying good, relevant pictures is also done here - by the photographers themselves, who tag them, and by the other users, who notice them and have their interest recorded by the software.
Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 16:32
There is no demise of professional photographers by amateur photographers. What is professional photography? How many areas of photography are there? What array of skills are required to produce a particular type of photograph? There have always been keen photographers who make great images. Operating as a photographer in the marketplace has never been easy. It’s just trickier now.