I think this is the longest thread I have seen since I joined this group,
but I'm gonna comment anyway.
Back when I used to play in a band we had a saying we would repeat before
every show, "Play it the way we rehearsed it." It means that people who
knew our music came to hear our music, not to h
Mark Roberts wrote:
>
> Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>> >Is there anything in the world that has been the subject
> >>> of photography
> >>> >*more* than weddings?
> >>>
> >>> Houses for sale?
> >
> >> School photos.
> >
> >bare-bottomed ladies
HAve you seen Calendar Girls yet?? :)
>
wendy beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 06:59 PM 07/01/2004 -0500, Shel wrote:
>
>>One local lab here says cats and babies are what they see the most of ... year
>>after year.
>
>Whenever I used to go into my local photoprocessing place, someone always
>used to ask "More dog pictures?".
My lo
No, it is sweet revenge for his smart arse comment on my spelling mistake a just
a few messages back. HAR!
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Len: is this a clever play on words, or a Freudian slip?
"I guess men need to *hoot* nudes of their wives"
tee hee
Quoting Len Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I
At 06:59 PM 07/01/2004 -0500, Shel wrote:
One local lab here says cats and babies are what they see the most of ... year
after year.
Whenever I used to go into my local photoprocessing place, someone always
used to ask "More dog pictures?".
Wendy Beard,
Ottawa, Canada
http://www.beard-redfern.co
One local lab here says cats and babies are what they see the most of ... year
after year.
>
> > >Is there anything in the world that has been the subject of photography
> > >*more* than weddings?
> On 7/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
>
> >Is there anything in the world that has been the subject of photography
> >*more* than weddings?
>
> Houses for sale?
(said Cotty)
Babies, say I. Many people have more babies than they do
weddings.
Mark, I TOTALLY agree - cheese, cheese, cheesy... That's all I can say
about them...
tan.
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: wedding photography...u
Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> >Is there anything in the world that has been the subject
>>> of photography
>>> >*more* than weddings?
>>>
>>> Houses for sale?
>
>> School photos.
>
>bare-bottomed ladies
I think this last suggestion comes closest!
...but considering how many photos are t
> > >Is there anything in the world that has been the subject
> > of photography
> > >*more* than weddings?
Babies. And cats. :)
>>
>> >Is there anything in the world that has been the subject
>> of photography
>> >*more* than weddings?
>>
>> Houses for sale?
> School photos.
bare-bottomed ladies
> -Original Message-
> From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> On 7/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
>
> >Is there anything in the world that has been the subject
> of photography
> >*more* than weddings?
>
> Houses for sale?
School photos.
tv
On 7/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
>Is there anything in the world that has been the subject of photography
>*more* than weddings?
Houses for sale?
Cheers,
Cotty
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From: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wedding photography...ugh!
Not to mention you get exactly the same thing from all the guys and gals who
have taken his seminars. When you hire Monte Zucker, what you
http://www.montezucker.com/portfolio.html
There is a link on Monte's site to Joe Zeltsman, which doesn't work, but this
one does:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020606223814/http://www.zuga.net/freelessons/port
rait.shtml#Joe%20Zeltsman
Everything you wanted to know about how to take pictures that
That's a different career field.
Len
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* There's no place like 127.0.0.1
BTW, I thought the best in life was "To crush your enemies. To see them
driven before you. To hear the lamentation of their women."
--
Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
www.robertstech.com
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wedding photography...ugh!
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:46:41 -0800
What we see of his work is what he wants us to see.
Do we know of what his more personal portfolio is like?
Leonard Paris wrote:
> If the best
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
> Something just occurred to me. With today's extremely high
> divorce rate, does most of the photographer's work end up in
> a dumpster sooner or later? Kind of a shame huh?
One of my school friends had a marriage that only lasted a year; came back
to find half the hous
Well, I know for sure it's not "To Ride the open steppe, feel the wind
in your face, and have a falcon at your wrist."
-Original Message-
From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wedding ph
What we see of his work is what he wants us to see.
Do we know of what his more personal portfolio is like?
Leonard Paris wrote:
> If the best life lies in being able to do something you enjoy, and make a
> living at it, then I think Monte is doing pretty well. Whether we approve
> of his appr
"Leonard Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If the best life lies in being able to do something you enjoy, and make a
>living at it, then I think Monte is doing pretty well. Whether we approve
>of his approach and style or not. It's just so easy to criticize successful
>people, when we know w
If the best life lies in being able to do something you enjoy, and make a
living at it, then I think Monte is doing pretty well. Whether we approve
of his approach and style or not. It's just so easy to criticize successful
people, when we know we can shoot better than they can.
Len
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* The
> -Original Message-
> From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Most wedding photographers have a checklist of shots that
> need to be gotten.
> They start at number one, and work their way down the list.
> Like Mr. Rubenstein said, the customer knows what a wedding
> album should
EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com
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From: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wedding photography...ugh!
Not to
Not to mention you get exactly the same thing from all the guys and gals who
have taken his seminars. When you hire Monte Zucker, what you get is Monte
Zucker himself, or one of his employees. Not some kind of special available
nowhere else photography. He has just carried name brand recognision
Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that Monte Zucker's photos
>> make me positively gag.
>
>too much sugar!
Yep, and his writing about his photography is even worse.
--
Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
www.robertstech.com
Hi,
> I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that Monte Zucker's photos
> make me positively gag.
too much sugar!
--
Cheers,
Bob
"Len Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Few of us can be Monte Zucker or Steve Sint.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that Monte Zucker's photos
make me positively gag. I realize that he's very good at what he does
but, man, it's like fingernails on a blackboard to me!
Whew! I feel
Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>see myth #6:
>http://www.phototechmag.com/previous-articles/apr-myths.htm
Is there anything in the world that has been the subject of photography
*more* than weddings? Given the number photographs made by the enormous
number people who have been doing it over the
Hi!
It just occurred to me that the reasonable way to produce *original*
wedding photo stuff could probably be shooting on weddings of your
friends/relatives/fellow photogs. But such thing would have to be
agreed upon in advance.
Normally, as I remember myself getting married , I wanted my
we
Doug said:
"> When I wrote that, I was not writing specifically about wedding
> photography. It crossed my mind that I should write something to
> indicate I meant Tanya's work on the whole, but as I'm easily
> distracted, the thought didn't stay in my head too long."
Actually, I suspected that y
On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 03:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. I recall Doug Brewer recently telling Tanya that, although
she was
talented, many of her shots looked like recycled versions of other
people's
ideas. "Perhaps that is true", I said to myself, "but I have seldom
seen
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: wedding photography...ugh!
> I agree. I recall Doug Brewer recently telling Tanya that, although she
was
> talented, many of her shots looked like recycled versions of other
people's
> ideas. "Perh
Hi,
see myth #6:
http://www.phototechmag.com/previous-articles/apr-myths.htm
--
Cheers,
Bob
Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 10:14:29 PM, you wrote:
> Bucky noted:
> "I recall Doug Brewer recently telling Tanya that, although she was
> talented, many of her shots looked like recycled versions of
Bucky noted:
"I recall Doug Brewer recently telling Tanya that, although she was
talented, many of her shots looked like recycled versions of other people's
ideas."
Bucky, actually, I totally agreed with Doug on that one, and I constantly
toy with and struggle to attempt to come up with original
> -Original Message-
> From: Frits Wüthrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:55, tom wrote:
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Tom Reese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> > > I quit doing them eventually. I couldn't take wearing the
> > > jacket in th
Bob admitted: "> Hi,
>
> I crashed a wedding a few years ago in Transylvania. I'd spent the day
> in a nearby village photographing a funeral, and getting very, very drunk
> on the local moonshine. Back at my hotel I stumbled, half blind, into a
> wedding and started photographing the dancing. Some
Tom Reese said:"
> The wedding photography thread got me thinking about my experiences...
>
> I wanted to shoot some portraits of a bride and groom and couldn't find
the
> groom. He was outside behind the building smoking dope with the best man.
By
> the end of the reception he was stoned out of h
> I think that, considering the various forces and demands
> tugging at the wedding
> shooter from the sundry directions, obtaining good results,
> let alone great or
> original results, is a respectable feat.
I think, as a former consumer, that they key to obtaining great wedding
photos is to
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:55, tom wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Tom Reese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > I quit doing them eventually. I couldn't take wearing the
> > jacket in the hot
> > weather (summer weddings suck IMO), the neckties, the
> > drunks and all the
> > other
> -Original Message-
> From: Tom Reese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> I quit doing them eventually. I couldn't take wearing the
> jacket in the hot
> weather (summer weddings suck IMO), the neckties, the
> drunks and all the
> other aggravation. I wish I could just shoot the B& G
> portrai
The wedding photography thread got me thinking about my experiences...
I wanted to shoot some portraits of a bride and groom and couldn't find the
groom. He was outside behind the building smoking dope with the best man. By
the end of the reception he was stoned out of his mind and trying to give
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