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Anonymous
No - you've just demonstrated why. Shitty, boring images don't sell, whether they're sharp and high-resolution or not. New camera technology has allowed the professional to do more work faster and with less hassle. A DSLR doesn't imbue the owner with the ability to compose an image, to spot good light and photogenic scenes and the self-editorial and marketing skills necessary to sell photos. Pros are pros and amateurs are amateurs, whether they're shooting $4 disposable cameras or pro DSLRs with L glass.
You can spot an amateur with a great camera or a pro with a shitty one from a hundred paces - their whole attitude to their art, to the scene and to light is totally different.
Go out and watch people take photographs. Amateurs will take a shot, maybe fiddle with the zoom a bit, take another one, chimp at the preview screen and go home. Pros will bob and weave like a boxer, taking shots lying on their belly or perched on a stepladder. They'll have big flashes, reflectors, light meters and tri/monopods and use them with skill. They'll be moving subjects around, rearranging piles of rocks, sitting waiting for the light to change, applying make-up to models.
The gulf between the skill level of an enthusiastic amateur and a hardened pro is as great as that between the quality of a $4 disposable and a pro DSLR. It's the skill and craftsmanship that sells images.
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