Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The best example I know of was one I read about in American Photographer many years ago. There was a brief article on a cosmetics campaign that involved a single shot of a hand holding the product. The photographer was asked to explain how the shot was done and at one point she casually mentioned that she had exposed 1000 rolls of film during the days of shooting. The next issue was filled with letters than ran along the same lines as Dante's posting. Surprisingly the number of quality photographers did not not increase even with the accidently release of the big secret: "They are not any better than you, they just shoot more film." :-) I recently shot a puppet show at my son's play school. It lasted all of a hour and a half and I ran through ten rolls in three different bodies. By rank amateur standards, the child is vaguely recognizable, they were all keepers. :-) Judging by the number of reprint requests, there were many "once in a lifetime" shots by parental standards. I would say that there were about ten good shots. By that I mean ten could have been published. There was only one really good shot and by that I mean one I would have put on the wall in my house. Not bad considering how I feel about the photographer's work in general. As a mechanic I often get the customer commenting that the only reason I am fixing their car is that they do not have all the tools I have. I have been a mechanic for twenty years and I know better but I just smile and nod my head. John Collier On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 10:33 PM, dante@umich.edu wrote: "a long diatribe on the excessive use of film by professionals" - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html