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The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist
Dan Gillmor has a piece up on his Center for Citizen Media blog about the coming decline in the venerable professions of photojournalism and videography. It's hard to fault Gillmor's argument that the ubiquity of Net-connected cameras and cell phones will mean that, for breaking news at least, a pro will rarely if ever be the ones who capture the shot or the footage that gets widely published and reprinted. The comments to Gillmor's post are worth reading. One reader pulls out the figure that a billion camera phones will be in use globally by 2008.
Funny that you should mention that. It looks like Senator John McCain might be thinking along similar lines,...
So, let's give million monkeys million cameras and wait when they produce something like this.
Almost always, those settings are meant to give consistent results, not artistic results.
In 98% of the cases, being at the right spot and getting the picture is what matters. As long as the picture didn't under/oversaturate so the information is completely lost, you have a good picture that can be fixed up. Not so if you missed the shot. Of course, if you're doing photography as art that's different, but if you're essentially there to document it doesn't take more than a layman.
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