Some Hard Facts to Ponder

We always hear about cheap stock from photographers... here's a message from an photography director at a major magazine. Whoa... get ready for it.

A Photo Editor: "For sure, it’s a bad time to be a professional photographer who makes lousy cliché imagery. It’s even worse, if your entire business model revolves around using very expensive equipment to make crappy photos.

The writing is on the wall. It used to be that I had to pay Corbis or Getty a bunch of money to license bad photographs. Now, most of these photos are fairly priced at $1 but it seems that’s not good enough for the market and the new price is freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

How did we end up here?"

Read the whole post for a very cogent take on the state of excellence in our world.