Professional photographers in the 21st century photography

In 2022 anyone can take photos with their telephone. Only hire a professional photogapher who can take photos you would have no idea how to take. To take photos how anyone can take with a phone or their own camera, but just a little more focused, better save your money and get free photos you do yourself.

To exist in 2022 all professional photographers should realise this or they will go extenict, if they haven't done already. It's not enough just to go somewhere with a big camera and a big lens. That alone will not produce a high-quality individual style artistic professional photograph that is noticeably different to anyone's phone photos. It's a bit more complicated than that and needs a lot more kits than that to really pull off a shoot that stands out.

Remember my words 10 years from now. Particularly pro photographers take heed. We pros all need to up out game or we will be obsolete. Just being called a pro and having a pro camera doesn’t take a pro photo for us.

Just putting a monochrome filter on a colour photo doesn't make black and white photography.

Using a wide angle lens to get more in or a telephoto lens to get close isn't the full picture. It's not as simple as that.

Putting a front on flash al the time is just not good enough. Terry Richardson already has it perfectly down.

Just buying lots of old film cameras and films does not magically make anyone an artist.

Just owing a Macintosh personal computer does not make photos any visibly better.

People write to me every day showing me photos someone has done with a telephone with prebeginner lighting and telling me they want me to take the same photos of them. That's great but I decline. I have no interest in taking photos with flat lighting for any amount of money.

If you hire a professional photographer only hire someone with a unique personal style and let them shoot in that unique personal style.

Edward Olive Professional photographer. Digital and analog studio, wedding, portrait, fine art nude & commercial photography teacher in Madrid Spain
Tel.: 0034 605610767
Email: edwardolive@hotmail.com
Website: www.edwardolive.info/