Dennis Yang posted " If Amateur Photographers Are As Good As Professionals, Then We Can All Be Professional Photographers " over at Techdirt recently. It's a nice article and well worth a moment of your time to read. When I Buzzed the article , I got a comment that's really worth addressing from a friend and (quite skilled) amateur photographer. He says: While this is true in some senses, it really only affects the middle to lower tier of talent. Just like in any other medium where technological advances have lowered the bar to entry to fields that were once the preview of only "professionals", having access to professional tools and getting professional results are not the same thing. [...] Creative talent, in many cases, is still a "get what you pay for" field, whether the masses have access to the same tools or not. He's correct, and this is the real crux of the Information Revolution, and how it impacts our culture and economy. *** On one h...
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