Quote Originally Posted by adina
Everyone and their grandma has a dslr and photoshop these days. Put that thing on auto, and you're an instanteous professional photographer.
I know exactly what your talking about Adina. I have a couple of coworkers who work as a photo team, taking senior pics, weddings, that sort of thing. They stay pretty busy with it as a side job, and the stuff I have seen looks good. Nothing steller that jumps out at me, but nice, traditianal looking photos. I may even have them do my wedding. They have asked me to edit some of their work for them (for a price) because they don't know anything about Photoshop. I was happy to do it and it was a good learning experiance for me. I was NOT at all suprised when I looked at the Efix data from the pics and it said they were shot in PROGRAM mode.

Here they are getting paid to take pics with basically an expensive P&S camera. It makes me wonder why I'm spending so much of my time learning about exposure, DOF, all the controls on my camera and everything else that I can relating to photography before I start to advertise my services.