Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12

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Subject: [Leica] Re: price of art prints (was re: kyle's fine art)
From: "Eric" <ericm@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:16:38 -0600
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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
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