Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't know much about this so have remained an innocent bystander. I would mention that, on the recent workshop I attended in Provence, the workshop leader (who does photographic work for Nat Geo Traveler) mentioned that wildlife/nature photography was the best paying area these days. Fifteen years ago I managed to sell the occasional underwater shot but it was tough then- I imagine it's very hard these days. Wendy On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > I have been wondering why so much recycled rubbish is presented as fresh > new > > and creative; as work to aspire to. It seems that the answer is that the > > artificial creation by big money of massive impersonal stock libraries is > > destroying good photography. > > So should we leave stock photography for the robots and make do without > an M9 > > unless we have an independent income? > > > > Gordon > > > I don't think that massive impersonal stock libraries is destroying good > photography as the people doing good photography ignore them. They've found > no reason to have heard of it. > The images I see in magazines and on the walls of galleries have never been > better. Photography is doing fine. > Stock is accessible on the internet to just about anybody who wants to > justify a large slice of their personal wealth being tied up in camera > gear. > And get tax write-offs on it. So we get lots of people willing to work for > nothing. In the 80s and 90s stock was an option in making a living doing > photography. But now its just real tough. Somebody wanting to be do pro > photography will just have to get real clients! > Tons of stock agencies out there not just the bad biggies. > > There will always be a market for quality work the problem is seldom the > market its the individual professional artist craftsman; or lack of. > Photography has more than its share of shock artists. Much more than its > share. To me they're the enemy more than the idiots out there who just want > the lowest bidder. There will always be those guys. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >