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Originally Posted by SinisterStudios
One thing that all Old School Photographer have to understand, Film is dead. There will be a very limited calling for film shots in the near future, we were even able to take very old school adult magazine company and get them to accept our digital shots . A good photographer yesterday was a very skilled person with a camera and a good eye who needed to shoot a quality photo perfectly the first time, a photographer of today is someone who can shoot good film and digital, and a photographer of tommorow will be one that looks at full digital everything. Having the skill to line up the shot properly the first time is great, but it doesnt always happen and this is where a digital photographer with alot of photshop experience will be high demand. One of my photographers is in this 50's, and he is one of the best digital photographers i have ever seen and he is a photoshop wiz (actually one of the best i have ever worked with). Having all these skills makes my job of a studio owner and content producer so much easier since i do not have to worry about sending the photos out to be retouched or having another employee doing them. Also a photographer knows his pictures best, and he is the best to retouch them
The Photographer of today needs to have strong photoshop skills, and the photographer of tommorow HAS to have strong photoshop skills or they wont survive.
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I have to politely disagree with you. I guarantee you that the top 20 fashion shooters don't do their own retouching. It's just not cost effective, digital or not. Digital does NOT mean photoshop. All it is, is a new way of capturing and image. Whats that old saying, "jack of all trades and a master of none. Like I said before I shoot commercial fashion, all digital now, but there is no way that I would even suggest my photoshop skills are anywhere near that of someone who does it full time. By the way, I have mad photoshop skills too, but someone who does it full time will run circles around me.
I also have never had a client ask me if I do my own retouching. My job as a photographer is to capture the image, or create the visual. Post production might be part of that, but it is not a necessity.