Joe,
Do you by any chance have a website we can look at?
I'm sure a lot of us would like to see what kind of images a "master"
photographer have.
On Sep 24, 2010, at 10:25 PM, joe smith <sarasotajoe2000@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> shirley.brigden@sympatico.ca
> Wrote
> "Selling photography is about the picture, not distracting them with
> the equipment"
>
> Well, Let me say. You may have a valid point.
> In my case you are wrong. I alos think with my fellow large format
> shooters who also do this will think you are wrong.
> I have the big powerful images that you suggest in my booth. When
> people see that with the handmade cherrywood 4x5 camera setup close
> by, they come in as if I have a large magnet.
>
> My sales from the fact that I am perceived as an artist/master
> photographer with this setup is way beyond comprehension.
>
> People say "what a minute, you photograph with that to make this?"
> I say, "why yes, what questions do you have about my process?
>
> Done deal.
>
> I can do this because I am bonifide/ real deal large format
> photographer who goes thru serious artistic pains to bring fine art
> images to my collectors.
> I also get some large doses of chemisty in my veins from doing this :)
>
> "The last thing I want is to have the client focus on questions
> about my camera"
>
> Also my clients want to and are willing to know what equipment I
> use. That s why I have my 4x5 setup. I would set up the larger ones
> but I have no room.
>
> Hence the fact of why I sellso much fine art B&W photographic images.
>
> Lastly, this is not to knock the 35mm shooters out there. Hell,
> Galen Rowell is one of my heros, not to mention, joel meyerowitz,
> gary winogrand, william eggleston, walker evans, josef koudelka, and
> many others. Afew great 35mm shooters come to our shows down here
> in the Fl Keys. (I am the show chairman of the Fl Keys Art Guild).
>
> But, I will out sell all of them because.
> 1. Large powerful images
> 2. Old School
> 3. People perceive and acknowlede the fact that I am a craftsman of
> the art.
> 4. They can experience the tools I use and appreciate the work that
> goes into it.
>
> So, sorry shirley.brigden@sympatico.ca
> You are off base.
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