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This is a new special effect I have been working on and finally have it to the point that I love it.

I was just recently at a seminar presented by a professional photojournalistic photographer who’s name I will not mention but he is rated among the top 10 wedding photographers in the world. When he photographs a wedding he gets paid $50,000.00 or more and rightly so. His work is outstanding. My concern is this. He may be enabling or even encouraging other young photographers to cover up bad photography under the name of or in the name of photojournalistic photography. Photos that are not correctly exposed, blurry and even photos that are less than flattering for the subject being photographed. These photos are being presented by young untrained photographers to the client as photojournalistic wedding photography or in the portrait area of photography as life style portraits. These people “photojournalist’s” hang out a sign and call them selves photographers but they have no real training at all. They have no idea what lighting or posing flatters the client or what goes into the creation of a good portrait. They shoot less than perfect photos and then put a label on the photo and call it photojournalistic or life style photography in order to cover up their lack of experience or technical ability.
I am worried that these young photographers will never be successful in a photography career because if this trend for photojournalistic photography ever changes back toward more traditional or more technically correct photos these young photographers will not survive. Look at portraits of the old masters they are still the standard and are on the walls of the homes and offices all over the world. Will the photojournalistic shots done today be on the walls of homes and offices in the future? Only time will tell.