Anyone Can Take a Pretty Picture

For quite awhile, especially since the use of consumer desktop publishing software has become so prevalent, designers have lamented the fact that "anybody and his brother" thinks they can do graphic design work. Some can. A whole lot more can't but just don't know it. Not only that, some businesses and clients have bought into the idea that all it takes is the right software -- actual design talent isn't necessary. That same sort of thinking is infiltrating the field of photography as well as Guide Liz Masoner describes in Why Photography is a Jeopardized Career.

Reader comments add additional thoughts and points of view to the conversation. Thomas writes, "I’m sorry but the only thing I can blame is digital photography and the affordability of cameras that can achieve high quality imaging. And now EVERYONE is a “photographer”! "

Now doesn't that sound familiar?