Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUGers This is referred to as "stream of consciousness" writing. Jerry Mark Rabiner wrote: > A nice good looking and knowing it (good for them!) person at a coffee > shop after i did a grab shot which felt like a bit of a winner in the > spirt of international love said I'd have to put that in my portfolio. A > nice thing to say. But displaying a slight naiveté. > I wondered if the shot was quite that good. Close! But no cigar i > suspected. > Why? I'm about to tell you. It goes like this. > > I'm 52 and I've shot about ten thousand rolls of film a modest amount > for someone calling themselves a photographer or serious Shutterbug. Sal > shoots that on a Sunday morning before breakfast and Paper when he's got > a new lens and he's not sure how well if does wide open. > If he had a motor drive one Shutters to thing! :) > > So a 20 print portfolio out of 360,000 shots. If that sounds way off > it's 333 and a third per rolls of film for me yearly so that really is > no big deal. Also I think it's one NA article we've found out lately. > Isnt it? > > So the odds of that nice I'm sure shot going into the old book - crème > de la crème mode is one in 18 thousand. I'll not spread that around when > the time comes it may not go over right. > "You didn't' smile so it's one in 5 zillion!" ??? > > The odd's of it getting into my enlarger. > Getting sold to a collector or gallery thing. > And odds of just matting and hanging it. > Numbers numbers numbers. Thought i was a visual guy. But I just like to know. > > Also a typical shoot for me is 5 rolls. That's a 1 in 72,000 shot at my > book for one of those images to COME ON DOWN. What's the odds of even > scanning them now? > The odds of it going into say a fashion models book is two out of three > for me. > In the past the odds of Eileen Ford taking the prints out of the book is > to my knowledge zero out of zero. She'd clean books out. I understand > she left my shots in among very few others. Maybe she liked my signature > in pencil in the corners. I may have not gotten many magazine covers but > in the promo photo world i did get that. > > What's the odds if it being one of those images that i spend hours doing > photoshop on at 4 AM? > > However numerical life is complicated by rolls with 12 on it or 24. I > can see what i should have done. > > Mark Rabiner, The Numbers Guy. > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html