tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91977897960029629.post3701201478293927842..comments2024-03-15T02:17:52.144-05:00Comments on GW-Images: Is Digital Ruining Photography?GW-Imageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02591096532137946728noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91977897960029629.post-2636026845173821612008-09-24T17:15:00.000-05:002008-09-24T17:15:00.000-05:00Gary I am interested in possibly using one of your...Gary I am interested in possibly using one of your images for a magazine feature I am working on. Can't seem to find any contact info for you anywhere. Please contact me asap at kate@emdashonline.com<BR/><BR/>Thank you!Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10414289579685264489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91977897960029629.post-29413206114490577992008-09-11T20:16:00.000-05:002008-09-11T20:16:00.000-05:00Tins, true the same happens in all fields. I spent...Tins, true the same happens in all fields. I spent the last quarter century working in the graphic arts supply field, a very exciting and challenging time. But along the way I saw many positions in prepress and press fall by the wayside. The Xacto knife and Rubylith was replaced by some twenty year old with a software program and a mouse. Process cameras worth tens of thousands of dollars became valueless albatrosses, plate makers and metal plates were replaced with computer-to-plate presses. The only constant in life is change. The people who bemoan the change are the ones that feel they have found a comfortable niche, an experience that entitles them. There is no such thing. You grow or you fall behind. Photography's revolution from film to digital started later than the revolution in graphic arts and it is only within the past few years that advanced technology within economic reach and is now beginning to hit home. What disturbs me is the wailing and gnashing of teeth, hurling blame; when photographers had best move on, earn their new position because the old one is disappearing. If they don't they will be like the prepress and the pressmen of fifteen or twenty years ago with their Xacto knives in pocket protectors. In the nineties I greatly enjoyed writing computer programs. Could I do that now? No way. I did not keep up with the technology, with the shifts and changes. Photographers do the same thing. What worked three or four years ago is fast becoming history.GW-Imageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02591096532137946728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91977897960029629.post-37612318386256826912008-09-11T15:39:00.000-05:002008-09-11T15:39:00.000-05:00I agree. Things change, professionals must adapt. ...I agree. Things change, professionals must adapt. Every profession has new advances in technology that make certain skills and jobs obsolete. <BR/><BR/>I'm guessing the outrage in creative fields seems louder in general because there is not as much demand for their work than in other industries. Skilled professional photographers don't make as much as they could in other jobs. Or maybe there's plenty of complainers in all industries and we're just tuned into this kind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com