Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ken Carney offered: >>> The only drawback is that it seems so many photographers are no longer printing - just displaying images.<<< Hi Ken, And right there is a major loss to photography! Everyone thinks like Lemmings and only screen display their photographs. A simple but stupid concept! Example. Photographer is about to "show his or her best work" to an art director or photo editor for a potential assignment or as new client. So they load a bunch of images on a CD and warmly in hand take it to the editor. Now consider this for a moment. The editor spends hours and hours every day looking at the computer screen with hundreds upon hundreds of photographs, in some cases shot by some of the best in the world. Now photog, CD in hand, arrives and hands it to the tired eyed editor who grudgingly inserts it to his computer. That's the one he's been looking at for the past 7 hours and he's really ready to go home before his eye balls fall out! Now how excited do you think he's going to be looking at another damn CD! I mentioned this on list a while back. When I go to see someone new about a shoot I never just take a CD, hell every idiot and their uncles do that. I always take a dozen 12X18 prints on double weight fiber base fine art paper! Yep Epson Printed! Like they feel wonderful in hand and because it's a nice feeling they look fantastic instead of the same old screen image. Yep it cost a few extra dollars, but getting the assignment is far more important! Now what happens is, the editor takes more time to look at and "HOLD YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY IN HAND!" He asks more questions and quite often calls in an assistant to see some "real photographs on paper!" I found this out purely by accident one day, now it's my criteria all the time. Prints in hand have created more locked down assignments than all the CD's put together. It's simple and it works! WHY? Because everybody thinks only of putting images on CD, as that's the only way many learned how to do it! Make prints? "Why?" is so often the question followed with this response. "I just look at my stuff on screen, I don't need to make prints!" Quite frankly, "there's nothing so beautiful as a great big B&W double weight paper print in your hands admiring the content of the image!" CD's are a help, but the prints so often lock down the assignment. And they create call backs for more work!! ted