Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow, I must have been lucky all these years. I agree to the idiotic art director part. I have refused many assignments, just because I thought it wasn't worth the hassle (with the idiotic art director) or because I thought the timeframe wasn't realistic or more simple because I thought I couldn't do it :). That said, I prefer working with the client directly... Today, I'm progressively moving into the publishing business and with some friends we're putting together an agency to sell our PJ work. I've sold almost all the big stuff - 8x10, 5x7, 120 (although I bought a Rolleiflex lately) and I've been concentrating on some personal long term projects. The only digital I use is either for small stuff (8x10 max) or rented if I need more... I have the feeling the next few years will be very interesting on the digital front! Tarek Le 20 f?vr. 2005, ? 05:04, Henning Wulff a ?crit : > Well, Tarek, I've been relieved of jobs half a dozen times or so for > using the 'wrong' equipment. Usually by patently idiotic art > directors, but still.... I haven't been asked to shoot digital as > such, but after a shoot I've been asked to provide a CD with the > images within 2 hours. I couldn't have done it with film, and digital > was certainly implied. The timeframe was not a whim, either. > > I have always tried to suit the technical solution to the client's > eventual usage, but sometimes the client has asked for things that > were not really the most appropriate for the task. I was asked to > shoot 8x10 colour in sawmills around 1980 here in British Columbia, > and shooting 100ISO film on 8x10 in a giant building that has no > useful reflective surfaces but has walls of dark aged unpainted wood, > is lit by a couple of flourescent tubes, vibrates like crazy and has > giant machinery moving at 60kph is really not possible unless you can > tap directly into a nearby hydro-electric dam. I managed to talk them > down to 4x5 but it was still a monumental task to do the shoot and > required a large truck to carry the lighting equipment. > > Another time someone asked me to shoot something in 8x10, and I said > no. A year later they came back to me and said that they wanted me to > shoot it however I wanted to, as the guy they got to do the 8x10 > 'couldn't produce the quality they were after'. > > A couple of times I got kicked off a job because the art director got > upset that I didn't shoot Polaroids. The timeframes on those jobs > didn't allow it, as far as I was concerned so I left. Once I got > called back when the art director got fired for letting me go. > > I still shoot film in my Leicas, for my own use. I shoot film on > larger or stranger formats, but I'm shooting more digital. It all > works, and I don't agonize over it.