Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, as they say, different strokes for different folks. I'll never be selling my prints to galleries for half a grand. The prints that I HAVE sold, to individuals for a few hundred a pop, could easily have been taken with a 6mp DSLR, without exception. Maybe I'll have a harder time finding customers (I have a hard enough time as it is competing with photographers selling "fine-art" photographs for $10 per 11x14) once they see that the prints are inkjets, inspite of words like "acid free", "pigment", "200 year lifespan". But that's OK for me. I'm my own No. 1 customer. -dan c. At 03:57 PM 09-12-04 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: [my stuff snipped] >> >Its just that the film you were exposing with your Hasselblad making up your >"body of work" could be Cibachromed and sold for half a grand to galleries >and collectors 20x24 size if your Jobo is that big. You could make a 300 MB >scan from that stuff and than have it Light jetted (by a LightJet Knight) or >UltraChrome it yourself to the same collectors and galleries. Or interior >decorators. >But a 6 to 12 or even twice that MB file from a medium format digital back >on your Hassy does not add up to 300. Which I think is the going rate rez >wise for stuff which can go up against your Cibachromes in large sized >landscape sized prints. >All your past film work, that body of work can go pie in the sky to the >moon. > >But shooting digitally it's like shooting half frame film. >Good for sketching. >It doesn't even break out of the atmosphere. >Your ceiling is very low. > >And ok plenty of schlock and not so schlock commercial work. > >But not d?cor and not fine art landscape. > >Which is good because you might be walking down the street and take a >picture of some tree or a bush. Or a whole field of them! > > >Mark Rabiner >Photography >Portland Oregon >http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >