Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/19

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Subject: RE: [Leica] David Bailey -- a dissenting voice
From: Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:33:03 -0800 (PST)

- --- "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 ).

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