flyingPhoto
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Been reading on various photographers found through DIYphotography and have run into a few things that strike me odd.
So many of them give themselves an odd sense of time in what they have been doing, and in how long they have been doing it. I should explain that sentence and feeling.
I found one photographer, joe edelman. A good number of his articles are contradictory with his professional website, website material, and professional and personal statements that I had to look at his record. And a strange sense of time hit up fast.
He is either based on an interview published december 2019, 53 year years old, using nikon cameras for 42 years since he started photography at the age of 11. Or based on his current bio on his website as of 2021, an interesting 63 to 70 year old man with a 50+ year long career as an award winning photojournalist that started at the ages of either 9, or 20 depending on source material.
What hit me as truly odd, so much of his online articles are AGAINST any sort of photographic education other then "buy a camera, a book, and start using it and seeing what happens". But he seems to make most of his income solely through several pay per view internet podcasts, youtube channel, and selling his own brand of photography education classes and paid mentoring memberships on his site.
IS that the way the modern world of photography is now? make copy cat images of whatever is popular on instagram or reddit, and sell "knowledge" of how to do it in post production online?
So many of them give themselves an odd sense of time in what they have been doing, and in how long they have been doing it. I should explain that sentence and feeling.
I found one photographer, joe edelman. A good number of his articles are contradictory with his professional website, website material, and professional and personal statements that I had to look at his record. And a strange sense of time hit up fast.
He is either based on an interview published december 2019, 53 year years old, using nikon cameras for 42 years since he started photography at the age of 11. Or based on his current bio on his website as of 2021, an interesting 63 to 70 year old man with a 50+ year long career as an award winning photojournalist that started at the ages of either 9, or 20 depending on source material.
What hit me as truly odd, so much of his online articles are AGAINST any sort of photographic education other then "buy a camera, a book, and start using it and seeing what happens". But he seems to make most of his income solely through several pay per view internet podcasts, youtube channel, and selling his own brand of photography education classes and paid mentoring memberships on his site.
IS that the way the modern world of photography is now? make copy cat images of whatever is popular on instagram or reddit, and sell "knowledge" of how to do it in post production online?