Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D.: >And,more to the point, what we are really talking about is the person who >says, 'oh, hell, Sam and Jessica, I'll shoot your wedding if you just buy my >film. You don't need to waste all that money on some fancy dancy >photographer." > >And the "fancy dancy photographer" is out a job. I dispute the notion that the fancy dancy photographer is out a job. If somebody decides that any fool with a camera will suffice for photographing something special like a wedding--a 4 or 5 times in a lifetime event <grin>--then I don't think that person was actually ever in the running to be a paying client for said fancy dancy photographer. If it were true that any idiot could push a button and create a fantastic photo, then commercial photographers would cease to exist. Why pay somebody for creating images of catalog products when you could hire a minimum wage burger flipper to do the same with an auto-everything camera? If any craftsman can't differentiate the value of what he produces over that which is available for free or very cheaply, then maybe that craftsman is in the wrong business. I think there's plenty of room for high-priced, medium-priced, and low-priced craftsmen in just about every profession. If you're competing solely on price, I think that being in any of the upper tiers is the wrong place to be. You'll lose out to cousin Fred who will do the job for cost. Which is as it should be. Eric - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html