Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Su wrote:. > > The point is that the pros who shoot for editoral pictures or books work > under different conditions that you, me, or Ansel Adams. They are not > necessarily free to just take the "best" picture and leave it at that. They > have to cover themselves in various ways, and take many different > compositions and exposures of the same scene to maximize how salable an > image is. Thus, they use what seems to us to be a lot of film. Peter, Exactly right. I do quite a bit of stock shooting that goes to NY agency and quite frankly I don't always understand why they pick certain frames and not others. Plus if scene is good one, the variety helps the potential client fit a layout. All this seems like high production factory work and--you know--it often is. And still I get back film and wonder why I didn't try something else. The biggest problem I face in shooting a lot of film is the time it takes to both edit, enter images into data base with captions, cross references and more and then print out and apply labels. This last part often takes longer than the shooting. And if it was fun I wouldn't be posting to the LUG--I would be working through the 75 boxes of film sitting here to be edited right now. donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego http://www.donalphilby.com