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Subject: [Leica] Peter Lik’s Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money. - NYTimes.com
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:19:37 -0600
References: <vFPh1p00d07g8Sg01FPj8R> <54EA5881.6050109@cox.net> <6E99A173-3186-4309-9AAE-1B1F5B31AB4A@gmail.com>

Of course, this reminds me of the famous black cat thread, in which I 
battled many of the LUG who tried to convince me that it was impossible for 
me to meter and photograph my cat with my M6 successfully.    ;-)

from my iPad

Sonny Carter

> On Feb 22, 2015, at 6:14 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In the sixties, when I was covering the marches, I wished my Spectra 
> incident meter would have had a brown hemisphere instead of white.
> 
> from my iPad
> 
> Sonny Carter
> 
>> On Feb 22, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I did notice it was the lead story in the business section, as opposed to 
>> art and leisure.  And then if you go to the photography section in the 
>> magazine ("A True Picture of Black Skin"), you will learn that "cameras 
>> and the mechanical tools of photography have rarely made it easy to 
>> photograph black skin".   But, one can work around these unfriendly 
>> tools, such as adjusting a light meter for black skin.  Another 
>> revelation was that film emulsions were calibrated for white skin, and 
>> thus don't work will with black, brown or red skin.
>> 
>> Ken
>> 
>>> On 2/21/2015 9:22 PM, Matt Kollasch wrote:
>>> Peter Lik
>>> ? is, as my father used to say, "laughing all the way to the bank." In my
>>> mind if you are IN Caesars Palace you ARE the joke.? But what do I know, 
>>> I
>>> am no Peter Lik, a man rich in confidence. Never heard of him till this
>>> article, though.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-for-success-sell-prints-print-money.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#
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Replies: Reply from richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Peter Lik's Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money. - NYTimes.com)
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