I am a photographer and I can tell you for sure there’s not a lot of photoshop here. I had the luck to work with Frans Lanting a couple of times. These great masters like Frans and Art Wolfe shoot almost perfect pictures and use photoshop just as a dark room, for saturation, highlights, contrast. In raw formats you have to. But that’s all. They use patience, commitment and passion to take an amazing shot, but to have it, it could take them days and days of waiting in harsh conditions. For me they are a sort of superheroes!
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Don't you think it's wrong then that a photographers hard work is being robbed here? Photographers like these risk their life potentially getting diseases, getting maimed by wild animals etc to produce these beautiful digital images and @jazminmillion simply shares it alongside some half-baked rewrite of a wikipedia article and earns 500 bucks (or more depending on Steem value etc). I love Steemit and this kind of copyright infringement is definitely not going to help the platform.
Well, the greatest photographers are sent by magazines like national geographic for reportages, then they earn their money through stock agencies like Getty, or photo workshops around the world. For instance Wolfe, Frans Lanting and Jack Dykinga will all go together to the Falklands late this year to bring people to take pictures of the birds and animals. That’s their biggest income. You can find free download of the same images posted here even on Art Wolfe website, because with that resolution you can print a A4 size paper, not more. It’s the same with music or ebooks: if someone wants to download your work for free he or she is not a customer anyway. So you can let them do it unless it’s for commercial porpoise. I think it’s good anyway for people to know about the work of a great artist even through a social network platform, expecially in fields like photography that are not at the top of the list as interest for many.