When photographers become pitchmen

This article was originally published on the PhotoShelter blog, and is being republished in full on DPReview with express permission. It's not surprising when camera companies hire photographers to pitch their products. But photographers have also been enlisted to sell other types of products; the result of Madison Avenue trying to romanticize the occupation, even though the reality often fails to meet the expectation. Nowadays photographers are more likely to spend the majority of their time si...