I don't feel so bad now.
I do enjoy event photography, though.
On Monday, June 11, 2012, wrote:
> 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 <javascript:;>>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>>
> 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...
> >
> > --
> > Ken Norton
> > ken@xxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>
> > http://www.zone-10.com
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