Serious Use of Compact Camera Images in Graphic Design

Serious Use of Compact Camera Images in Graphic Design, article.
"As someone also doing serious and fine art photography with compacts for the past couple of years, this is where I fall into a dilemma. While on one hand I strive to capture technically sound images and am always on the lookout for the next compact that would raise the bar on my images, on the other hand as a designer I make do with images that I would reject outright for technical flaws if taken by me. Images used in important publications, which may be read and used by top national and international organizations, governmental agencies, funding agencies, think tanks and the like, taken with automatic point-and-shoot cameras I would not even look at! Thus I wonder if it is the image (the subject, the moment, the interrelationship of elements, the light, etc.) and the purpose for which it was taken that really matters and that the rest is essentially 'technical' and 'secondary', the bit photographers tend to worry too much about these days!"

If you have followed my blog for a while, you'll know that I struggle with similar issues. On the one hand, I know that technical perfection has very little to do with the artistic impact of a photograph, and in fact many of the most famous pictures in the world are very imperfect technicality. On the other hand, I'm enamored with the tech side of things, and it's hard to separate this from the creativity.