[Leica] Ted's comments on "Inferiority Complex"

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Larry Z offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted's comments on "Inferiority Complex"


>>>> My wife, a well respected painter, constantly tells me that fine art
> isn't spontaneous. You must form an image in your mind and carefully
> work to realize it in actuality. The lesson is usually lost on me. If
> it looks good in the viewfinder, I simply push the button.<<<<<<<<

Hi Larry,
Yep that's about right. :-)

Like you, one of my failings has always been.... "if it isn't happening 
right now so I can go click!" I'm outta here.

Even though I've shot lots of wild life on assignment in our National Parks 
in Canada, well a National Park is cool lots of critters there as long as 
you are quick on the trigger, But tracking around moving gear about for 3 
years to only get a 30 sec. movie clip??? Not in my life!

Although the encouragement of a very healthy sized pay cheque does alleviate 
the stress of waiting! Which I'm sure these guys get! :-)

cheers,
ted


> Ted,
>
> Thanks for your reassuring words. I'm slowly getting better from the
> flu and I trust that you are well on the road to recovery from your eye
> operation. It's tough being an old fart, isn't it.
>
> About picture taking. I know my skills as a photographer. Patience
> isn't one of them. My few years as a news photographer trained me to
> snap a shot as soon as an appropriate scene presented itself. Any
> reasonable picture would do as long as it could make the early edition.
> A follow up piece on the Planet Earth nature series mentioned that a
> photo crew stalked a snow leopard for three years to get 30 seconds of
> screen time. Let's see. A photographer and two assistants probably
> would cost about $150,000 per year, perhaps more. Add in supplies,
> equipment, transport and overhead and the three year cost would
> probably be between $750,000 and a cool million. So it comes to about
> $30,000 per second of TV time. And that doesn't add in the really
> expensive costs of editing and production. It sure makes owning a
> digital Leica one of the best bargains in photography.
>
> My wife, a well respected painter, constantly tells me that fine art
> isn't spontaneous. You must form an image in your mind and carefully
> work to realize it in actuality. The lesson is usually lost on me. If
> it looks good in the viewfinder, I simply push the button.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Larry Z
>
>
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