Originally posted by Ubuntu_user 
Oh yeah. But my conscience would probably bother me knowing that I was making such good money at something this is not entirely real/honest.
I read somewhere recently that smart artists gravitate towards money. People who want to make a living in arts do what it takes to make that living -- and the smartest and most skillful artists now head for advertising (which includes fashion shoots and propaganda). Studio-type work isn't like snapshooting or reporting or recording. It's image-making, making images look just as you (or a client) want them to look. Is staging a photo shoot any less moral than staging a painted scene? And it's not like this is new.
I'll mention my artistic youngest sister. She didn't want to do commercial studio work, but she got a decent job as a commercial sculptor where she could work at home. And what did she sculpt? Well, you know those craft stores that sell plastic molds for plaster figures? She sculpted the originals for those molds. Animals, plants vehicles, structures, all sorts of stuff. Then she moved from L.A. and worked as a muralist for Nevada casinos. Are casino murals real/honest? Yeah, right. But the work paid the bills.
If you're going to create images, might as well make the best possible.
Me either! 
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