Der Fotografen größter Feind? Eltern...
Eltern, die ihre Kinder beim Sport (oder beim Theaterspielen, beim Schulausflug...) selber fotografieren, sparen ja viel Geld. Und eine Kamera hat ja schließlich jeder, und sooo schwer kann das Knipsen ja auch nicht sein, nicht wahr? Seltsame Welt, wo man den Profis die Jobs wegnimmt, und es Amateure machen läßt. Ist es bei uns auch schon so weit?
For ten years, John Harte had a streak going. Every Friday during football season, he had at least one client for his business, Shooting Star Sports Photography, which shoots pictures of high school athletes in action. (...) But the streak ended last week when Harte, a retired newspaper photographer in Bakersfield, California, had a Friday with no jobs. He says fans with DSLR cameras are offering photos for a much lower price than he can charge, or giving them away.
Weiterlesen...These (professional) photographers’ main products are prints, posters and CDs or DVDs of images of specific players, whose parents are willing to pay a pro to shoot their kids in a photojournalistic style.But as in all sorts of professional photography segments, amateurs are disrupting the market. Harte says a teacher at one of his schools recently bought some good camera gear and is selling disks of game images for $395 each, undercutting the $500 Harte charges for the labor-intensive product. “I have no idea how he’s going to do it,” Harte says.
