Sylvain Dumais chats with Heather Morton

Well, this article should make you think long and hard about current perceptions and practices.

The Lounge Week 29: Sylvain Dumais — HeatherMortonArt buyer:

Sylvain:
"My bet is, that in 5 years the photographers who just do photo will be really slow. Advertisers are moving strongly to the web and the web loves motion (great article about the future here). Besides, even the cameras are able to do both things (the Red shoots stills and the 5D shoots video). From now on, every Canon and Nikon will shoot video and they will keep improving. At the same time, as everything is computer based now, photography is less of a craft unfortunately. Creatives in agencies have cameras and they don’t always feel the need to hire a pro photographer, sometimes they do it by themselves too. I’m teaching at Pikto where some of my student don’t know much, but have the same gear than me and are shooting here and there for corporate and commercial clients. And those CGI artist are getting really good, I would have never have guessed that these pictures were CGI."