On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as commercial photography is concerned you either have to lead the > market or follow it. If the customers are going after the gimmicky stuff and > you don't want to shoot gimmicky stuff you have to resign yourself to eating > boiled potatoes until the market comes back round; if you want to eat nice > food you might have to swallow your pride first. It's a day job, that's all. > The number of photographers who can shoot what they want and still earn a > decent living is miniscule. Even HCB had to compromise and call himself a > photojournalist. <snip>
Elliott Erwitt, as you know, at one time he shot ad copy for a living (and was ~damned~ good at it - I've seen some of what he shot!). He called his Leica his "hobby camera". As good as his studio stuff was, we all know what he'll be remembered for... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
