Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, To clarify, my post was making a somewhat OT & tongue-in-cheek reference to the latest entry in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. I wasn't the one who made the reference to wedding photographers being better off working at mcdonalds. I've shot weddings, and have colleagues who paid their mortgage shooting weddings. But I think the point being made is not about the shooting of weddings but rather the money after expenses issue that results in renumeration that does not fully compensate the skill and work required. If that's "stupidity", then I'll have to review the MW dictionary again. BTW, I've done the civil war wedding shoots too.... as for knowing more than what f8 and focusing is, I think I qualify. From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:46 PM > Jim McIntyre wrote: > > > > > By the time someone covered their expenses, they might as well be working at McDonalds. > > > > That would mean that wedding photography can now be described using that > > recently added dictionary term "McJob". That's the mew entry the Golden Arch > > moguls are objecting to, even though they helped define it ;-) > Having done over a hundred weddings over 25 years i can only laugh at > peoples stupidity making judgements on things they know nothing about. > That's the thing about photography people know what f 8 is and they know > how to focus a camera so they think they know what being a photographer > is. > In ANY sub field of photography being weddings to underwater they can > only guess what it's all about. > I've done all kinds of photography and weddings I'm sure are like El > Salvador. Shooting wars. Things are flying through the air folks and the > inlaws are not pleased... > I think these people making these equations have neither done weddings > for a living nor worked at McDonalds. > > Me I'd not put down working at McDonalds I've never done it and would > hate to try it. > A good chance I'd not cut the mustard reaching for the ketchup instead. > > Plenty of people I know use the term "McDonalds" when they are referring > to a tough super organized workplace which is envied in the business > world. And not just the fast food business world. There is a McDonalds > school if I'm not mistaken and plenty of people don't make the grade. > Other businesses will send their employees to McDonalds school as spies > pretending to want to get into the burger biz when actually they get > into the nuts and bolts biz. This of courses makes for some over cooked > nuts and bolts with lettuce and tomato. > And chipped teeth. > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html