Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was HCB that said "it takes a lot of milk to make a small amount of cream". I think fishing is a good analogy of photography - there are only 2 things I have an abudance of patience for - fishing and photography. - Many hours, lots of bait, lots of tangles, etc - sound familiar? And you never know what you've cuaght until you pull it out of the water - if anything at all. (Fish are incredibly smart in Oz, ....) Karina > Photo Phreak (or whoever this masked man/woman is) wrote: > > How true. In 1968 Larry Burroughs told us neophytes > that if he had three good shots on a roll he was > ecstatic. His rule of thumb was less than or equal to 1 > in 36 ( my wording, not his ). > > I am still ecstatic to find one keeper per roll. It doesn't always happen! Remember > that this means keepers are photos that meet a particularly high standard. > Unequivocal winners. Hard to define here. Earlier on in life, I expected much more > per roll. Ah, innocent youth. > > I've just recently worked with a beginning photographer on a story about the Channel > Islands. She told me she'd shot 700 images for the story. Don't worry, she said. > There's lots of good ones. > > I found four I could publish. > > Emanuel Lowi > Montreal > > > -- > 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