Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:59 PM 7/7/98 +0100, you wrote: >It's one of the truly great professions of life involvement, but it is fast >disappearing due to many factors; primarily bean counters, share holders >and fickle people who don't buy quality journalism. But most of all, >visually illiterate editors and visually challenged designers! One of the reasons I have chosen to become an editor myself. So I can have an impact on the use of quality photography. But having to deal with visually illiterate word herders who think that photos never determine placement, well, I'm just sick of such a lame attitude. Well, then, write/edit better stories you dolts! On the difficulty of photography, there's something I have discerned, even amongst professional photographers, let alone the amateurs who answer to no editor. One group knows good pictures and sweats it out to make them. As Ansel Adams said, "A set of 12 good negatives in a year has been a good year." (paraphrased) The other group thinks that because a person gets a picture - any picture - of an important or interesting place/person/situation means it's a good picture. Not true! - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Everybody has a photographic memory- most just forget to load the film.