He sure nailed it on the head. I was an attendee at a wedding the other day and this same thing happened. Nobody was enjoying the ceremony because of all the iPhones. The people with the iPhones were to busy taking their images to be part of the ceremony. Note to Brides INSIST that NO cell phone images during the ceremony or reception etc??

As a photographer, and channeling these interlopers I told my wife …. ” I don’t need no stinkin wedding photographer, I got this cell phone.”

What a sad state of affairs, the digital revolution has completely changed the industry. Pay for Images??? Naw, I’ll just do a screen grab”

I spoke with my photo printing lab the other day and they said that they have even been to people’s homes and seen proof copy screen grabs of some of the photographers they do work for mounted and framed on the wall.

This is one of the reasons I go ahead with that big fat watermark on my images. If they are going to grab it off PhotoShelter, then at least they have to do a little bit of cropping or watermark editing. At the very best, if they pass the image around without doing this then I get free advertising of the kind of work I can do.

What I would really like it to have a virus attached to and unauthorized image that makes them grow warts and hair on their nose!

Thanks for tha article and letting me have a place to vent.