Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:26 AM 7/8/98 -0700, you wrote: >the photographers had access to incredible misery and suffering. the >power of the photography lies not only in their skills as photographers, >but in their incredibly grim surroundings (?). On the National Press Photographers list, this subject has been beaten to death, with convincing evidence that that is not true. Good photographers take great pictures in their own neighborhood. And bad photographers can't take decent pictures anywhere, no matter how far away or exotic. The subjects themselves may be compelling, but the pictures are another thing altogether. >i've seen the "bean counters" get castigated, yet those bean counters >are simply counting beans ? if people don't buy the magazine something >needs to be changed ? if people do then the bean counters are kept busy >with piles of beans ? A Dallas Morning news photographer just this morning talked about how a bean counter came into a paper he used to work for (much smaller on the east coast) and saw the photo budget was rather large compared to the rest of the paper. Ignoring the fact they had just upgraded all their photo equipment and bought a bunch of computer equipment, but still needed to spend more the next year, he forced the photographers to limit their film usage to five frames for general assignments and 15 for sporting events. Great for shooting discipline I suppose, but totally out of touch with reality. That's bean counting. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. William Drumond, Scottish writer (1585-1649)