Re: Is there anybody out there photographing?

[Tony <scope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought Steve made a significant point which no-one seemed to pick up.
Photography is so cheap nowadays that even when a proposed picture is not
quite what you want, there is a tendancy to say "what the heck, I'll shoot
it anyway".  A cost of $15 a shot makes you pause and think "is this really
the best I can do?" with a particular scene. Perhaps this is why some of
the shots which have come down to us from early photographers are so good.
The 'machine-gun' approach of shooting a hundred frames and hoping to
chance on a good one afterwards isn't really the right way to go.

Tony Andrews

At 07:32 AM 5/21/1999 -0700, Steve wrote:
>I was beginning to feel silly, setting it up, looking at the scene and
>deciding not to make an exposure.
>
>Well, at $15 per shot for color film and processing, I'm not really tempted
>to 'go ahead and take the picture.'  But, my seemingly perverse satisfaction
>at setting up the camera, leveling the tripod, tilt, swing, rise, drop and
>.... naaaaa, I dooon't think so but it was fun.  It's matched by others!
>
>That 18 Lb camera, two pound lens, Brett Weston's tripod over my shoulder
>and I just like setting it up.  Oh, I have a few exposed negatives that
>printed fantastically, too.
>
>Today, I go back under the Monterey Bay, Warf I, again. Ho hum.
>
>S. Shapiro
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