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Originally Posted by Rochard
Photography used to be an art form. Just to get to the point where you could try to call yourself a photographer, it took thousands of dollars - tens of thousands of dollars in today's money. It was also expensive to take pictures with the cost of film and developing. Now anyone with a $300 camera can take professional photos, and then touch them in photoshop as required to make up for a lack of skill.
That's called progress.
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Anyone can take a handful of decent photos with a point and shoot camera for fun, for Facebook and the like. Even cell phone camera photos that capture a unique moment in time like say a tsunami in motion or a celebrity snorting coke can be very compelling and sellabe. But to consistently shoot full planned out photosets that are actually sellable for real money and make a profit on it the way a porn content producer does? That's a whole different story. Skill still comes into play in a big way. There's a reason there's only a small handful of us that can do this job for the bigger, more picky clients.