Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But also on the other side is the many people who are potentially buying photography who refuse to differentiate between a photographer and a camera bug. Do they really think that their brother in law who buys and sells cameras back and forth on eBay every day is a photographer? That they then refer him to a friend to do their wedding or whatever with a camera he's going to own for 3 months? Its a step up they perhaps think then if they did it themselves with their point and shoot. At least the brother in law has a fancy camera. He knows how to turn his flash off. And they don't need to have it look like it was shot by Avedon or Pen if they've never heard of Avedon or Penn. Nope we photographers get no respect. Photography gets no respect. It's an avocation not a vocation. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:46:26 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] D700 > > There are also MWC's - Moms with Cameras - who have taken over the > children, dog and family portrait business. They often have no idea > what to charge and end up giving the photos to their friends in order > to get more business which never comes. > > Tina > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:37 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG > <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: >> Bikini model holding a Leica is totally in the realm of GWC. >> >> >> >> "GWC -Guy With Camera >> >> Commonly used in the modeling/photographer biz, 'GWC' is any poser/creep >> with >> a digital camera pretending to be a pro/semi-pro photographer. With the >> introduction of digital cameras, GWC's have appeared like an explosion in >> a >> toy store. >> >> GWC's typically steal the work of others and don't have any references. >> "Some GWC asked me to 'test' for him, what a creep." >> >> "What's with all the GWC's on OneModelPlace.com, lately?" >> >> "Damn GWC's are ruining it for the rest of us." - Pro Photographers >> >> Provided by: www.urbandictionary.com" >> >> >> >> On Oct 25, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Phil wrote: >> >>> Then there's that large number of Leicas and assorted Leica/Leitz >>> paraphernalia sitting in bank vaults depreciating in value and causing >>> the goods out on the market to increase in value. >>> There are a few Leicas out there that serve no purpose but to make >>> models look hotter to use cameraphiles too... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information