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Anonymous
If after all good advice on /p/ you find yourself using HDR, candy-saturated colors, selective desat, vignettes, steep b/w and what have you, and get paid for it, you are a sell-out. Secretly /p/ will be jealous and proceeds to call you a fag.
If, however, you heed to /p/'s advice, and continue to 'do your thing' and produce images nobody really cares about no matter how good they are, you are a photographer/artist, and /p/ will pat your back for finding your thing and proceeds to call you an art-fag. You also wont get paid.
But seriously, are you really concerned about being called a sell-out? Your choices are being a paid photog, which could cut out some of the enjoyment of your hobby, or an amateur photog doing something else as real job to finance your hobby.
Personally I wouldn't consider photography as a job since it tends to be a competitive field, and I'm not convinced about my endless creativity and skills.
And consider, if you get bored of it / start hating it later, what are your chances of getting another job at that point?
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