A few words come to mind as to "Why Bother", professionalism, Integrity, self respect, honor, principle, liability, insurance, etc, etc.
I know.... I'm just venting.... Allow me to rant...
I'll be glad to police the vermin as we all should. I just need a little help from the FAA. In the case I cited, a major higher ed institution that will be posting illegally shot video and THEY don't care.
You know... it used to be that when you submitted a television commercial it had to meet certain standards. If you forgot to dot an I or cross a T it was rejected... Now they say "we don't care what you send us.. it could be an iPhone video and we'll run it."
This is our future people.... I have seen the "nobody cares" attitude creep into my photography/video profession for years. I teach college classes on my craft. I see it there big time. Now, these college grads in their safe rooms are running the show. We quote for a video shoot that requires lots of lighting and the youngster running the show says "we don't need that- just run the iso up." They don't get quality... just how fast and cheap. Not everyone feels this way, but enough......
This attitude is born from the $18,000 is a great annual salary, I live at home, I have no retirement plan pass the bong crowd. I see them every semester and it scares me. I'm only glad that I will be dead before they retire and have no way to exist.
I will continue to run my business on the up and up. I'll run it the way I have for over 30 years. Professionalism, Integrity, self respect, honor, principle, liability, insurance and all that stuff. I just have to accept that when the millennials are paying the bills that a $5,000 full day shoot will really be a $1,200 full day shoot.
Rant done. I'm going to have a Bloody Mary now.