Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't mean to sound harsh, but as I read the article, I cannot help thinking "there has been a fundamental change in the market, and this guy just did not see it coming." Let's be honest, most of those school pictures have no artistic value whatsoever (I include my own high school graduation portrait from 1979 in this statement). If young people these days prefer to snap a picture with their smartphone and upload it to Facebook...well, all power to them! If I and my classmates had those tools available to us back then, I am sure we would have preferred them too. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Mar 18, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Adam Bridge wrote: > I thought this might interest the group. It's from this morning's > Sacramento Bee. > > <http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/18/4346521/picture-bleak-in-photo-world.html> > > The lede: > > High school students waiting to have senior portraits taken once filled > Richard Givens' photography studio on Coloma Road in Rancho Cordova. > > Now that studio holds all his worldly possessions. > > The career school photographer rented out his spacious Gold River home a > couple years ago and moved into his studio to make ends meet. > > Sigh. > > Adam > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >