Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] why i can't be a professional photographer
From: "Don" <don.ro@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:37:46 -0600
References: <85E316BC-2E44-11D6-BCE4-0003930C1F28@bigfatpipe.net>

Doing it for free was your greatest mistake.  People do not appreciate
things if they do not pay the price.

Don R.
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From: "bourgeois and biblical" <bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 7:18 PM
Subject: [Leica] why i can't be a professional photographer


> because i would strangle my customers--same reason i couldn't be a
> waiter.  i did some PRO BONO photography for the preschool at my
> church--something i was glad to do--and one of the mothers is driving
me
> nuts because the aspect ratio on her 8x10s isn't the same as on her
4x6
> proofs.  i've tried to explain the relationship between 2:3 and 4:5,
but
> i might as well be speaking urdu.  she seems to think i can change
MATH
> to suit her needs.  i also can't seem to get her to realize it's a
good
> portrait, even if it doesn't include the kid's feet.  it includes the
> kid's personality, which is what's important.
>
> i should have told them they could have only 4x6s and 8x12s, but i was
> trying to be nice and offer them lots of sizes.
>
> i'm going to get business cards that say "i shoot and print
full-frame.
> if you don't like it, get someone else."
>
> --
> brad daly
> bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net
> http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly
> http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html
>
> "America sells everything with sex and then recoils when presented
with
> the realities of natural process."
> --Jock Sturges
>
> "War, what is it good for?  It's good for business."
> --Billy Bragg
>
> "Rap is a continuation of the Sex Pistols; it's quite obvious."
> --John(nny Rotten) Lydon
>
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