I've Just had a pic shown on BBC News!

Or make sure your images are better, visibly better, than the free ones........:thumbs:
 
fracster said:
Or make sure your images are better, visibly better, than the free ones........:thumbs:
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This the real point - profesional photographers have to step up to the mark like all the pros in other fields that have gone before.

I have been writting computer programs for about 30years - in the begining we were in our 'ivory tower' and in demand and well paid. But now either the programs are prepacked for a few pounds or basically anyone can get a PC and cobble together a program. Is as good or as reliable - normally not, but its does what the user wants and that's all they are interested in.

If you are a good photographer you will produce images that appeal, images that say something special about the sitter, or the landscape, or the situation. This is why people pay for photographs and images.

A major split between Professional and Amateur photographers use to be the cost of the equipment, the processing equipment and skills required. But this is not so much the case now.

With news reporting the empasis is on getting an image to print or display as quickly as possible, and for unusual events, this is more likely to come from the people on the spot at the time, with the dreaded mobile phone.

One way to ensure that pictures do not get devalued is put inplace standard payment rules for every picture that is published/broadcast ... and everyone gets paid.
 
TwentySixDays said:
But now either the programs are prepacked for a few pounds or basically anyone can get a PC and cobble together a program. Is as good or as reliable - normally not, but its does what the user wants and that's all they are interested in.
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That's probably one of the main reasons many commercial products are now so sluggish, buggy and unstable. They're under so much pressure vs. OpenSource projects and the guy tapping away at the keyboard in his basement, that they have to rush things to release and aren't able to give them the proper testing they once were.
 
Kaouthia said:
That's probably one of the main reasons many commercial products are now so sluggish, buggy and unstable. They're under so much pressure vs. OpenSource projects and the guy tapping away at the keyboard in his basement, that they have to rush things to release and aren't able to give them the proper testing they once were.
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That it, and the fact that companies like microsoft open the core programmes to anyone that feels like plugging in their bit of code that screws everyone else programs up.

At least with photography you can see what you are getting, all you have to do then is work out which settings you have just changed :lol:
 
When I read the the title of this thread I fully expected to see another shot of a snowy, street, with a couple of stuck cars, taken under orange steetlights, but with flash to freeze the closest snowflakes, typical news program fare:shake:

I was very pleasantly surprised to find your shot of the Watercress, great picture & congrats:clap:
 
thanks for all the comments, I have to say I am a little surprised at some of the things people have said - it was just a fun shot taken while out with the family that I wanted to share...
 
Lovely shot, and not surprised they used it. The old lamp and sign on the left make the whole frame picture-perfect!
 
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