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- From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.203017.7755@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 20:30:17 GMT
- Organization: Roller Coaster fanatic with no hope for a cure
- Subject: Re: A photographer's story
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- tse@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Anthony Tse) writes:
- > I am going to catch a lot of flame for this, but I think some
- >of you will like it, so here it goes.
-
- Hey, I thought it was a riot!
-
- > Seems to me most people who are interested enough in photography to
- >scrap up what little money they have to buy a "real" camera when they
- >were in high school or college started out dreaming about being a
- >photojournalist.
-
- Not really.
-
- > Sometime around puberty,
- >they dream about photographing beautiful women and have their pictures
- >published in Sport Illustrated or something even more interesting.
-
- No comment.
-
- > In
- >rare occasion, some will dream about lugging 50lb of large format
- >equipment and that damn wooden tripod wandering around in the middle of
- >nowhere, waiting until the light is just right, the puff of cloud is
- >at just the right place, and sell their pictures for $5000 a piece.
-
- Ahhhhh........ NOW you're talking!
-
- > In most cases, we read magazines like pop phot, find out what each
- >and every camera can and cannot do, I mean, we know those spec so well,
- >we can recite them on the spot.
-
- Hey, I used to be like that! Used to read Modern Photography, though.
-
- [Disillusionment sets in after the first ``dream'' camera produces less
- than stellar results]
- >For the Ansal Adams wannabes,
- >they are a unhappy bunch, their prints just don't look good.
-
- This is *always* true! The only time we Ansel Adams wannabes are happy
- is when we're lugging 50lb of large format equipment and big ol' tripod
- wandering around in the middle of nowhere, waiting until the light is
- just right and the puff of cloud is at just the right place. Some of us
- are happy just to be lugging around the equipment in the middle of
- nowhere, and will still be happy even if the light is never quite right
- and that puff of cloud never moves. Frustrated, perhaps, but still happy.
- And if we could ever sell one of our pictures for $5000 a piece? Yikes!
- We could make a down payment on a Technikardan or something!!
-
- ;^)
-
- >The Ansal Adams wannabes finally got their 4x5 camera and even a Minolta
- >45A, some stick with b&w, other tinker with cibachrome, the few
- >who've been drop head first from the upper bunk too many times print
- >dye transfer for a living. Maybe they didn't sell any print for
- >$5000 a piece, but they are happy. Those who have a life subscription
- >to pop photo, well, they haven't touch anything more then a point and
- >shoot in over 20 years.
-
- You are obviously a large-format photographer.
-
- Thanks for the chuckle.
-
- Geoff ``I haven't tried dye transfer... yet'' Allen
-
- --
- Geoff Allen \ The main difference between me and the student
- uunet!pmafire!geoff \ is that I have simply made more mistakes.
- geoff@pauling.inel.gov \ --George Drennan on teaching photo workshops.
-