Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/09

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Subject: [Leica] RD-1 and I
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu Dec 9 21:14:48 2004

On 12/9/04 5:50 PM, "Dan C" <bladman99@yahoo.ca> typed:

> Well, as they say, different strokes for different folks.  I'll never be
> selling my prints to galleries for half a grand.  The prints that I HAVE
> sold, to individuals for a few hundred a pop, could easily have been taken
> with a 6mp DSLR, without exception.  Maybe I'll have a harder time finding
> customers (I have a hard enough time as it is competing with photographers
> selling "fine-art" photographs for $10 per 11x14) once they see that the
> prints are inkjets, inspite of words like "acid free", "pigment", "200 year
> lifespan".   But that's OK for me.  I'm my own No. 1 customer.
> 
> -dan c.
> 
It's just the landscape FineArt stuff which has to be bigger. As that genre
is normally expected to result in larger prints.
Thing is lots of people do landscapes. I do some. But like like yourself do
more in the studio.

I use lichen for trees and use the macro.


Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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