Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Uncertainty is reality, whether it's seen as negative or positive....to crop or not, color or bw, whether to show a photo, whether a given photo should even have been made....all decisions of real and variable difficulty. My own personal feeling is that I want the responsibility to make them...that's likely why I wouldn't want to depend on this to make a living. On the other hand, if I did make my living this way, it would have to be bang bang, right or wrong. As a doc I had to make decisions all the time, often someone lived or died as a result. Why ask 11 people and get 14 different opinions. steve Sent from my iPhone Steve Barbour On Mar 21, 2015, at 6:02 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: Uncertainties is certainly a negative description. When I am shooting, I have several different purposes in mind for the photos. I have to find some way to use the photos to earn enough money to pay for the equipment, the trips, the promotions, and the time I spend on photography which is not a hobby for me. I think the other photographers who actually make a living with their photography take at least as many photos as I do and sometimes many, many more. Tina On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > Steve Barbour > > On Mar 20, 2015, at 10:22 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > Hi Tina, > > May I ask a heretical question: are you perhaps taking too many photos, > just because it is so easy with digital? You mention a figure of 16000 from > your Cuba trip, That is more than I take in a year. Now, I realize that I > am just an amateur while you are a pro, and I also understand that for your > stock business you need some slight variations of each image, but still the > number seems excessive. From the way you talk about the editing process, it > seems to lead to an intolerable burden afterwards, when editing them. > Perhaps a change from this machine-gun approach would be good for your > health? > > The uncertainties in editing must pale beside the uncertainties in > shooting... > > steve > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On 21 Mar 2015, at 03:15, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> You are right, Mark. I need to tweak all of them before I judge them. I >> am 69 years old. I won't have time. I'm still scanning, all day every >> day, the film from over 40 years of photography. I just finished > scanning >> 11,274 slides of Portugal I'm starting on Spain now, while I continue to >> edit the photos from Cuba and Vietnam. >> >> Life is entirely too short. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tina > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information