In any "photo op" moment any more, it is hardly possible to miss the invasion of the camera mobile phone. Where it used to be straightforward to tell when a video camera was around and if people had them handy, now anyone with a phone could be a clandestine wedding photographer. Even at occasions that used to be ruled by the professional wedding photographer such as weddings and the like, we now see those dozens of hands going up snapping photos with camera phones that seem to dominate the scene.
Conventional photography is a highly developed art form and profession. The precision of the equipment and the ability of we to deliver a high quality product to their customers is well known and the result of decades of evolution of the craft. But today it is possible for anyone to become an amateur photographer using that tiny cell phone in their pocket or purse.
The question needs serious consideration for three audiences. For the trained photographer, is this the end of your profession? Will digital mobile phones wipe out your customer base and make you obsolete? For the aspiring wedding photographer, what about your future? Should you even invest in learning to use the sophisticated equipment that makes trained photography so superior? Why bother if camera phones are going to make it all obsolete? And for you the consumer, can you get the same quality of photographs with using video camera mobile phones as you can by hiring a photographer?
These are valid questions. It is very common when a new technology begins to make inroads into a profession for the old guard of that profession to feel threatened. It happened when television came along and the media called it the death of radio. It happened when talkies and then color was introduced to movies and tv and at each technological improvement in the music world. And with each dire prediction of the demise of an industry, the opposite took place and that industry adjusted, evolved, got better and prospered all the more.
So there are good reasons not to worry that video camera phones is going to devastate photography as we know it including.
* Video camera mobile phones cannot achieve the same levels of quality. There is a good reason that the skilled wedding photographer has invested in the highly sophisticated equipment that he has in his studio and that he or she takes to a shoot. The many years and decades of research have surfaced the problems with quality that primitive equipment could not deal with. Modern wedding photography equipment has precise instrumentation to handle lighting issues to properly frame each photograph and to produce a skilled quality outcome that people want from a wedding, a portrait or any kind of skilled photography. You can bet that forensic photography, fashion photography and wedding photography for publication will ever be willing to accept the low standards of quality that are the outcome of camera phone pictures.
* It's an amateur game. When you see kids holding up their camera mobile phones at a concert to steal a picture, you know that device is not going to result in a skilled quality shot. This is especially true in a live setting like a concert where there are myriads of issues such as lighting, visual noise and other problems that have to be overcome with sophisticated instrumentation just not available on a camera mobile phone. Camera phones are an amateur wedding photography device. And they will always occupy that niche.
* Standards of the final product would be compromised. And high standards of quality are what make skilled photography a value to it's customers.
This is not to cast video camera phones in a negative light. They have their place and they are great fun. But we in the skilled wedding photography world have nothing to fear from the growth of this tech..
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