Photojournalists judge amateurs. We judge you ALL.

Yawn. Same old tired rant. Am I also bad because I bought a kitchen faucet from Home Depot and installed it myself, bypassing a professional plumber who would have marked up the faucet 100% and charged me 2 hours labor @ $90/hour for the install? Am I putting the plumber out of business, too?

Nobody held a gun to anybody's head and told them to be a starving artist photojournalist. If the guy wants to pull teeth, go to med school for 8 years. If he wants to write business plans, get an MBA from a good school.

dave

The difference between your analogy and theirs, is that you didn't replace your faucet, then start putting up a website advertising your services as a professional plumber.

I too find it funny when a friend or casual aquaintance gets a rebel for Christmas, and a week later they're watermarking dumb shots of animals at the zoo, with "My Name Photography", and asking if anyone wants to schedule a portrait session for $500. haha

Of course, I don't get bent out of shape about it.

I read all their posts, and think its hilarious, but thats just me. I enjoy angry-humor

bpaulette wrote in post #11758328
The difference between your analogy and theirs, is that you didn't replace your faucet, then start putting up a website advertising your services as a professional plumber.

I too find it funny when a friend or casual aquaintance gets a rebel for Christmas, and a week later they're watermarking dumb shots of animals at the zoo, with "My Name Photography", and asking if anyone wants to schedule a portrait session for $500. haha

Of course, I don't get bent out of shape about it.

I read all their posts, and think its hilarious, but thats just me. I enjoy angry-humor

Someone asked me how to use his M9 with a crappy 50mm at a wedding I shot. I didn't know if I wanted to cry or laugh.

bpaulette wrote in post #11758328
The difference between your analogy and theirs, is that you didn't replace your faucet, then start putting up a website advertising your services as a professional plumber.

I too find it funny when a friend or casual aquaintance gets a rebel for Christmas, and a week later they're watermarking dumb shots of animals at the zoo, with "My Name Photography", and asking if anyone wants to schedule a portrait session for $500. haha

Of course, I don't get bent out of shape about it.

I read all their posts, and think its hilarious, but thats just me. I enjoy angry-humor

See, I know what I'm worth. I don't watermark random pics from the zoo, and I do portrait sessions for friends for free.

In my eyes I don't really see sharing your shots online as trying to make it as a professional, but I must be missing some kind of nuance. Regardless, though, if people are that bitter about it maybe they should've taken up a pursuit that's a little bit harder to do professionally.

kendon wrote in post #11736415
obviously the author feels threatened by some amateurs, which appeals pretty pathetic to me. i don't tell them to stop using a computer because they are not it-professionals. if people want to spend money for crappy pictures let them, you will find this in every profession.

90 percent of everything is cr(p anyway. Photos are no exception.

Professional means a signed contract you must perform to. Everything else is just amateur by definition.

snyderman wrote in post #11754929
Yawn. Same old tired rant.
dave

Feeling the same. Could we beat this topic to death again please?