Generally speaking, it goes without saying that, nowadays, almost everyone can take amazing photos due to a variety of phones introduced by hundreds of companies in contemporary society. However, despite the fact that, obviously, the gadget that one uses for taking pictures plays a vital role in their quality, I assume that there are other reasons why we still need professional photographers.
To begin with, one has to emphasize the fact that photographers, first of all, are valuable for their professional skills. To illustrate, people that are working for such magazines as „National Geographic” are very prepared for this job, since, for usual images of how lions hunt zebras, they theoretically could sit for hours waiting for an ideal photo shot, without food or toilet, in extreme climate conditions in the Sahara desert, with a temperature of 40 degrees, in a special camouflage. Additionally, it cannot be omitted that any random phones cannot zoom pictures as well as special apparatus that photographers have can. By using them, they can take pictures of tiny insects, small species of birds, or a large group of dangerous animals that are at a very long distance from them.
Nevertheless, one must contend that around one hundred years ago, people needed photographers even for usual, daily photos: first, they had to wait for a photographer and then stand for approximately 15 minutes until he took a photo; after that, they had to wait approximately two weeks before this photo would come to them. Nowadays, this issue is absolutely solved. One can take even 20 photos in 1 minute and rephotograph if one does not like the background of one’s picture or if someone has their eyes closed in the photo. On top of that, contemporary technologies of montage help people to change photos on their gadgets immediately, making them more colorful, clear, beautiful and so on and so forth.
To conclude, even though everyone has their own smartphone and, possibly, can take thousands of daily photos, I disagree with the premise that we do not need photographers anymore, since they can take such marvelous photos in such difficult climate conditions that ordinary people, without having relevant knowledge and strong patience, would never take in their lives.