| These AI-generated images were created by feeding a textural description into a program called Midjourney v4. They were posted to Facebook's AI Art Universe page by Giuliano Golfieri. |
In this issue:
- The Shrinking Market for Photographers
- In the Pipeline
- Tethering to your Laptop via your phone's Wi-Fi hot spot
- RV Life / Our New Home
The Shrinking Market for Photographers...
When you're a work-for-hire photographer and you move to a new city, you have to establish your client base all over again. But things are different now - in the age of smartphones, everyone's a photographer. In fact, photographers are slowly suffering the same kind of career fate as audiologists (the ones that outfit you for expensive hearing aids, which are becoming more affordable thanks to the self-testing possible with bluetooth-enabled smartphones) or a Knocker-Upper. (And don't get me started about the new wave of AI-generated photo-realistic images which are amazing but will no doubt put a lot of photo illustrators out of work.)
So where is the market for the skills the traditional photographer brings to the table? Let me rank what the most common options used to be. Many of these insights come from personal experience and also many interviews of photographers for Cameracraft magazine over the years:
