Comments on: The Changing World of Photography … and How to Survive It http://rising.blackstar.com/the-changing-world-of-photography-and-how-to-survive-it.html Professional Photography Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Frederick Potterhttp://rising.blackstar.com/the-changing-world-of-photography-and-how-to-survive-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-59266 Frederick Potter Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:05:07 +0000 #comment-59266 The digital revolution has produce a boom of people who, after receiving their Canon Rebel for Christmas and using one of the thousands of free instant web site templates, are now calling themselves photographers. The truth is, if you want to survive as a photographer, it needs more than just a photographer's eye. 90% of the solution is not the craft itself but the marketing and business sense that is required to make any business work.No doubt, it's ugly out there. But photographers need to educate the public why owning a camera doesn't make one a photographer any more than owning a chisel makes you a sculptor. I addressed this issue in my editorial "Would You Let Your Mate Cut Your Hair?" and can be readt at http://www.editionsbyfrederick.com/editorial/cut_your_hair.html The digital revolution has produce a boom of people who, after receiving their Canon Rebel for Christmas and using one of the thousands of free instant web site templates, are now calling themselves photographers. The truth is, if you want to survive as a photographer, it needs more than just a photographer's eye. 90% of the solution is not the craft itself but the marketing and business sense that is required to make any business work.

No doubt, it's ugly out there. But photographers need to educate the public why owning a camera doesn't make one a photographer any more than owning a chisel makes you a sculptor. I addressed this issue in my editorial "Would You Let Your Mate Cut Your Hair?" and can be readt at http://www.editionsbyfrederick.com/editorial/cut_your_hair.html

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