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Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development by 20after4 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @01:24PM (#44301489)
And now the business of wedding / portrait photographer has become hyper-competitive. Now everyone's cousin is an amateur photographer and every phone has an almost acceptable camera built in. It is much more difficult to have a profitable photography business compared to 20 years ago.
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Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development by bachmeier on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @01:40PM (#44301692)
That's good to hear. Back when I got married there were some real jerks in the wedding photography business, and they weren't worried about running out of customers. Here's an actual conversation I had with one of them:

Me: "I'm getting married on [date] and I'm looking for a photographer."

Them, in the voice of Nick Burns: "We're already filling up for next year. Good luck finding a photographer this year."

Me: "I just got engaged. You never have anything open up?"

Them: "No" and hang up the phone.

The faster guys like that struggle to make a living, the better.

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Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development by NewsaHackO on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:05PM (#44301999)
Definitely. What matters more is that the ability to take photos is available to more people, which is a net positive.
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Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development by LargeWu on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:30PM (#44303598)
In the same breath, those photographers will complain about all the "amateurs" devaluing their services.
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Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:20AM (#44306874)
I know a couple of professional photographers and neither of them will do weddings. It seems many of the clients are as bad as the photographers.
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Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development by ath92 on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:54AM (#44308002)
The game has definitely changed. It used to be profitable to be a photographer for hire, and that’s no longer the case. But the revenue generated through pictures (by influencers) has increased a lot.

If today all you do as a programmer is open jira tickets without any kind of other human interaction, AI coding agents are bad news. If you’re just using code as a means to build products for people, it might be the best thing that has happened in a long time.

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Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development by jimbokun on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:58AM (#44310490)
> But the revenue generated through pictures (by influencers) has increased a lot.

So the job qualifications went from "understand lighting, composition, camera technology" to "be hot".

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