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The Pro photographer California Forums have been closed due to spamming issues.

 

  SPAM: Every day you open your e-mail...There it is more junk and spoof e-mail than you could read in a day.

And then there are the scammers, now why would anyone think that photographers have any money to steal?

 

  So because of the phony forum photographers linking to porn and cheap Viagra websites we had to close it.

However on the Up Side... this decision to wipe out the Pro Photographer Forums left room on the server we can offer to members to host Blogs or small photography portfolio pages. when we get the logistics sorted out.

Currently we are hosting several nonprofit sites

 

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Featured Article:

 

    The Changing Face of Professional Photography

 
   This is not just happening in photo world, but in the recording industry and in the low budget independent film market and I presume any other industry that adopted pro-sumer equipment in a professional environment.

 The whole situation really needs a new paradigm for deconstruction. Everyone looks at this as oh, the pro is loosing jobs to some dope who just bought a digital camera last week. And while there is no question that is happening, I think the problem lies a little deeper. Its not that the pro is "losing jobs" I think its more to the effect that the job market is becoming far more structured to cater to the guy with a week old digital camera and no experience. People WANT to hire that guy and they DO NOT want to hire the pro. We used to live in a world where if you wanted to hire a photographer, you had to go to this pool of professional photographers and that is definitely changing.

 I think its a simple matter of the jobs becoming subtly more specific. "Photographer" is somewhat of a meaningless thing to say anymore and we have a long way to go until things get redefined.

 Everybody complains about the incompetents, but don't overlook there are also more also more really good photographers in the market than ever before.

 Thanks to the instant feedback of digital and easy access to information on the internet a new photographer can learn in months what used to take years. Anyone with decent visual talent and work ethic can be doing professional grade photography within a few months.

 And those photographers are competing for a shrinking market. Wedding photography at least continues to be a pretty good market, though increasingly competitive. In many specialties the actual number of assignments is falling even as the number of photographers grows. My friends who do magazine work are scrambling for a shrinking number of jobs even as new photographers enter the market every day.

 I am confident that the best and most innovative will survive, but I expect it to be a small number in a very tough and rarified market. Article Submitted by: Professional Wedding Photographer in Ventura and Santa Barbara, California.

 

 

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