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<blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 4077" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>Are these &quot;Professionals&quot; still complaining about being put out of business by &quot;Amateurs&quot;? I was shooting freelance for wedding studios back in the early 60's. Back then they were complaining about the same thing, &quot;OMG any one can go out and buy a cheap Japanese roll film camera a bunch of rolls of film, some flash bulbs and call themselves &quot;professionals&quot;. &quot;They are going to put us out of business.&quot; Even back then the &quot;professionals&quot; were talking about establishing professional standards and requiring state licensing. It has not happened in 50 years it's not going to happen now. What todays professionals forget is they were yesterdays amateur they are complaining about to day. It was the same complaints back in the 60's as it is today. As far as todays cameras making it much easier to get really good images, it's not the camera, it's the photographer that gets the really good images whether it's digital or film. If todays amateur is really good he can be self taught or go to a photo school, start a good business and become tomorrows professional. The rest of the spray and pray amateurs will fall by the wayside. But I suppose the amateur that does make it to professional status (whatever that is), he acquires the right to complain about the amateur that is trying to put him out of business.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Joseph Bautsch, post: 4077, member: 654"] Are these "Professionals" still complaining about being put out of business by "Amateurs"? I was shooting freelance for wedding studios back in the early 60's. Back then they were complaining about the same thing, "OMG any one can go out and buy a cheap Japanese roll film camera a bunch of rolls of film, some flash bulbs and call themselves "professionals". "They are going to put us out of business." Even back then the "professionals" were talking about establishing professional standards and requiring state licensing. It has not happened in 50 years it's not going to happen now. What todays professionals forget is they were yesterdays amateur they are complaining about to day. It was the same complaints back in the 60's as it is today. As far as todays cameras making it much easier to get really good images, it's not the camera, it's the photographer that gets the really good images whether it's digital or film. If todays amateur is really good he can be self taught or go to a photo school, start a good business and become tomorrows professional. The rest of the spray and pray amateurs will fall by the wayside. But I suppose the amateur that does make it to professional status (whatever that is), he acquires the right to complain about the amateur that is trying to put him out of business. [/QUOTE]

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