Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > Two things here - One, the best work if often that work > which seems the > simplest - > > And, two, in regard to the fact that the images of > Marshalls which one sees > are the selects from what ever number of rolls: > > That's true of any photographer. And I recall being told > - about 40 years > ago - by an editor at LIFE, that from LIFE's point of > view a photographer > was doing well if he or she had a single "keeper" - an > image that the > photographer really wanted to see printed - from each > roll. > > B. D. ============================================================ How true. In 1968 Larry Burroughs told us neophytes that if he had three "good" shots on a roll he was "ecstatic". His rule of thumb was less than or equal to 1 in 36 ( my wording, not his ). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html