Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 29 Dec 2004 at 20:03, Frank Filippone wrote: > Pros, PJ's, and others that actually get PAID to take pictures have a > different criteria of success. Sometimes on this list, that > differentiation > gets lost. Some years ago I went to a Canon/NANPA workshop with Dewitt Jones, and inevitably someone asked about the "hits/roll" ratio. I've never forgotten what he said: "If I get less than two good shots on a roll, I wasn't paying attention. If I get more than four, MAYBE five, I wasn't pushing myself hard enough." Throwing out exceptionally bad shots is the price we pay for the chance of getting exceptionally good ones. My thought about the London shoot is that it looks to me as though the photographers felt so compelled to enter SOMETHING that they sent up "almost" shots rather than pass it by... The alternative is that maybe three of them have any kind of eye at all and those three were having off days. -- R. Clayton McKee www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 dig pager 281/510-3588