AND KEN SAID: >>And I really don't enjoy photographing weddings all that
much...<<<
Enjoying shooting weddings????????? My gosh anyone who enjoys wedding
photography can only say this if they're being paid the $20,000.00 dollars
each wedding as a chap in New York gets!
I hated shooting them right from the beginning days of 1951! Eventually I
devised a method where. If I shot a wedding it cost $1000.00 ! I gave the
best man the unprocessed film at the end of the day providing he wasn't
inebriated and a note where to take the film for processing, proofs and
final prints. And he gave me $1000.00 cash. And I said, "I never want to see
you again! Unless yer getting married again." :-)
The $1000 didn't deter them one bit! So I upped it to $2000.00, same hand
over film at end of day. Heck that slowed them a bit, so I upped it to
$4000.00 same routine... slowed them considerably, but it didn't stop! So
finally I just said: "I don't do weddings!" And it ended!
I think I'd rather be in some kind of conflict than shooting weddings! And
given I've done both, I think I'll opt for the conflict and sounds! :-)
cheers,
Dr. ted :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Was: Patience, Now: Dr.Ted.
>> A vision of the red spot ?
>
> Well...
>
> This past weekend we had a city-wide garage sale. So on Friday and
> Saturday we cruised dozens of these horrid things. I'm sorry, but
> there are only so many tables full of baby and kid clothes I can
> handle. Oh, and other brickbracks which never did serve any useful
> purpose EVER!
>
> But we did manage to "Fang" a couple of beautiful prom dresses for $40
> each. Shoes for another $1. I kept an eye out for Leicas, but didn't
> see any.
>
> My transitioning started a couple years ago when I started shooting as
> though the camera was a rangefinder. Obviously, this is a bit easier
> with my PanaLeica DMC-L1, but I also applied the same techniques to
> the OM bodies. We discussed this at length. But part of this was also
> a change in subject placement techniques. I no longer was going as
> wide or as long with the focal lengths. I rediscovered my 35mm lens
> and got back into my sweet spot of one to two body lengths shooting.
>
> Part of this transitioning process is recognizing that I am no longer
> comfortable shooting what and how I've been shooting. (Yes, I'm using
> the term "transitioning" deliberately as it is quite close to extreme
> change I'm undergoing). I'm sick and tired of copying my own work.
> It's time to break some serious molds.
>
> The darkroom is actually a critical point in all this. It frees me up
> from having to earn money WITH the camera and can go back to making
> money with somebody else's camera. There's more money in selling
> supplies to gold miners than gold mining itself. The darkroom will
> also allow me to explore some artistic options which I've been toying
> with for a while now.
>
> It's not that I'll totally abandon everything out there--SWMBO still
> wants me to make "pretty pictures", but "pretty pictures" are no
> longer satisfying. Consider this my photographic mid-life crisis.
>
> And I really don't enjoy photographing weddings all that much...
>
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> ken@xxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.zone-10.com
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