There is a view that people with smartphones are capable of taking photos, with regard to a highly disruptive age so that the importance of professional photographers has been reduced. Although, there is a notion that smartphones allow people to capture photos easily, I believe that still there is a huge demand for professional photographers in certain areas including marketing, since they owe special abilities such as artistic vision, technical skills which ordinary people often lack.
Nowadays, many people have got an access to smartphone photography due to technological disruption. This means that they can take photographs and share them without any difficulties. For instance, people just want to capture their everyday situations, which they consider as important regardless of its quality, meaning in this case there is no need for skilled photographers. In addition to this, plays a crucial role in terms of visual communication. Younger generation, particularly, are aware of editing photos which directly effects image quality as opposed to elderly mostly share amateur photographs.
Nevertheless, professional photographers still have great value as they offer numerous skills like technical skill, artistic vision, editing expertise. Thanks to photographers, in special events, such as sports events, weddings, tournaments and conferences that require photographers with professional expertise, who can take high quality images which ordinary smartphone users cannot always achieve. They master knowledge in using special equipment to have high quality results, with years of training and experiencing many failures they achieve this level.
Furthermore, photography has a huge market demand and people pay substantial amounts of money for their special moments to be captured professionally. In fact, there is a wide range of businesses have a strong desire for professional photographers, for example, advertising campaigns , restaurants, architecture, and branding which . Statistically, commercial photography ranks third in terms of demand. Thus, amateur photography can not replace the photographs taken by professional photographers.
In conclusion, both technological disruption and images captured by ordinary people can not take place of professional photographers. Which means that, they are always remain essential for many type of fields worldwide.