📸 Is Photography a Viable Career in 2024?

Snap into the future: Is photography a flash in the pan career? Say cheese to camera tech showdowns. And artists, you better brandish that brand!

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Welcome, creative friends!

Forget the filter, is photography a viable career or just a Kodak moment in 2024? Snap into this read now!

In today's rundown:

  • 📸 Photography's 2024 Outlook

  • 🤺 Camera Wars Update

  • 🎨 Artists Are Now Marketers

  • 🔥 Press Worthy Stories

  • 📚 Learn & Grow

Read time: 3 minutes

VISUAL CREATORS

Turns out, making bank from the click of a shutter demands more than an eye for aesthetics; it requires the vision to see through the financial fog and a willingness to burn the midnight oil in the darkroom of modern capitalism.

Reality check: Making it rain in the photography game takes more than just a fancy camera. It’s about finding your focus in a filter-filled world and standing out without selling out. The art's alive, but is the artist thriving?

From indie artist to commercial kingpin, the exposure varies more than a double-exposed film reel.

It's about balancing the aperture of your artistic aspirations with the shutter speed of industry realities.

So, before you delete that day job from your memory card, develop a clear vision of the personal and professional negatives you'll have to navigate in this constantly zooming industry.

Excited to learn more? This feature isn't just a thumbnail preview; it's the high-resolution JPEG of career contemplation. Snap to it—read the full story here!

Is photography a viable career?

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Will the AISIC alliance tame AI?
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🛠️ They'll set the right standards
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤝 More collaborations needed
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🤖 AI will outsmart safety

🔥 Press Worthy

  1. Topaz Labs’ CEO, Eric Yang, unveils a future of AI-edited visuals that’s more about authentic enhancements than cloud-based hocus-pocus.

  2. It’s 2024 and photographers are still clutching their full-frame DSLRs. Why haven’t they switched to mirrorless? Decent specs + deep attachment = no rush.

  3. What Is It Like Using Adobe Lightroom on the New Apple Vision Pro? It allows hands-on editing with Lightroom. It’s slower than a mouse or iPad, but you can swipe in solitude anywhere.

  4. Sony cameras steal the show at Super Bowl LVIII, with 24 4K zoom angles and POV FX9s delivering cinematic close-ups for a total of 165 Sony cameras.

📚 Learn & Grow

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It fits into your editing process as the first step. Recut's cuts are a mere suggestion: you can tweak them, keep some parts, and remove mistakes. Export super fast (and lossless) to your usual editor as a project (or as a video). It works with Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, CapCut, and ScreenFlow.

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PRODUCTION MASTERY

The camera wars are cooling off, and photographers are the ones feeling the heat.

Sony’s a9 III made waves with its global shutter promise, but reviews showed there were some ISO and dynamic range bargains.

Still, with photographers saying they don’t need the extreme specs, camera makers are focusing on refining experiences rather than pushing pixels.

Matt Irwin’s breakdown captures the mood of the market, where practical features trump tech hype.

As photographers weigh their options, the era of nuanced competition could develop a clearer picture of what shutterbugs really want from their gear.

What do photographers prioritize in a camera?

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Will the Oscars ever give stunt performers their due?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 💃 They better!
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤷 Maybe someday
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🕺 Doubt it

🔥 Press Worthy

  1. Nolan takes home DGA's top film honor for Oppenheimer, solidifying his Oscar frontrunner status.

  2. Sony VENICE 2 gets a free firmware update to version 3.00, adding a 33.333 fps mode, improved high frame rates, and more.

  3. Filmmakers merge reels with reels: Marketing becomes a 21st-century cinematic feat as filmmakers adapt to brand storytelling, splicing engagement into every scene.

  4. Prehistoric horror film, Out of Darkness, embraces Alien-inspired suspense. POV shots and firelight add to the mystery.

📚 Learn & Grow

CREATOR ECONOMY

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In the age of tweets and TikToks, artists are being called to the marketing frontlines, tasked with building their own armies of fans.

Creators from wordsmiths to musicians are now expected to wear the hat of the hype man. And it’s not just about the craft—it's a numbers game.

Publishers want authors with an already ravenous following, and musicians are composing jingles not just for albums, but for algorithms. But as creators juggle self-promotion and artistic purity, many fear the authentic magic may get lost.

Still, with the old guard of publishing houses tightening their grip and streaming platforms setting the beat, playing the promo game may be the only way for many to make a lasting impact.

So, will the era of the artist-marketer hybrid usher in a golden age of creativity or a consumer-driven content crumble? The spotlight’s on, and the curtain's up—let the show(boating) begin.

Artists turn marketers:

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Will Glass Imaging's tech turn your phone into a pro camera?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 📸 Picture-perfect tech
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤷‍♂️ Too good to be true
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 📱 Just stick to selfies

🔥 Press Worthy

  1. IG now lets you make animated stickers from any video. More creative Stories coming your way.

  2. Disney’s $1.5B Epic Games bet is a metaverse play, not just about gaming. Epic’s metaverse is becoming the LegoLand of virtual worlds.

  3. Google’s plan to ax third-party cookies receives industry pushback and triggers a UK antitrust probe.

  4. As UK lawmakers debate curbing social media access for kids, banning it altogether, as some US states are considering, seems unlikely and undesirable, experts say. Instead, they’re calling for safer platform design and better enforcement of age limits.

📚 Learn & Grow

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