I don't see that you need any deeper skills to do the set-up. To the contrary, the totality novice would not have the blinkers on "how to" and easier for lateral thinking solutions.
The underlying message was that "photography" is no longer "photography" as we used to know it. In other words, you just can't take pictures any more and just display them somewhere and hope someone will pay for them.
The entire "profession" has changed from being "selling photos" to selling a service making photos and media/picture material and a bit more.
The old "photography profession", as we used to know it, is simply dead and gone together with the wheelwrights and mule drivers, etc.
On 15-Feb-2012 2:14 AM, Fred wrote:
<rolf.krohna@...> wrote:
>
> Interesting video. Makes me remember the "old days" when we did not
> have the "push the button" "rapid fire" fully automatic cameras.
Ahhh, the good old days....
The truth is is that I see more great photography now then ever before BECAUSE of the technology. Instead of spending half a day taking a few shots and processing film to see if you got anything good you can now concentrate on the creative aspects and make progress much faster as you try new things and see the results right away.
True, digital photography will never be magical again for many of us because the darkroom is no longer, but I was there for the unveiling and progression of Photoshop and even PhotoMac before it and I can assure you that the magic of Photoshop is just as magical to todays photographer as the darkroom was to us oldsters.
I can actually recall designing a digital camera (in my mind) back in the late 70's with my version of pixels and the ability to view an image instantly and edit the exposure from a "raw" capture that held an extremely wide tonal range.
I was pretty accurate in my dreaming and it was just that, a dream that would make photography even more incredible than it was. Yet so many people lament the progress that has been made because now "anyone can do it". Well I have news for you, photography has always been the "art" that anyone can do. What has likely changed is you. Young photographers are just as inspired as many of us where and have just as much opportunity.
So feel free to lament the passing of the good old days but this is not the STOCK PHOTO forum where the oldsters get to gripe without hearing the other side of the story.
Fred Voetsch
Group Moderator - Selling Stock Photography
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/selling_stock_photography/
Owner - Acclaim Images, LLC
http://www.acclaimimages.com/
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, RK <rolf.krohna@...> wrote:
>
> Interesting video. Makes me remember the "old days" when we did not
> have the "push the button" "rapid fire" fully automatic cameras. We
> simply had to learn to choose the right film, to hit the trigger in
> exactly the right spit second to with one picture catch the motion, and
> we became quite good.
>
> When I took photos of a rider and horse flying over a jump in a
> competition, and you had to take it exactly when the front hooves were
> right over the bar, plus minus five inches, you only had once chance in
> a lifetime to get just that photo, and you nearly always did it.
>
> Now we can set up the camera, and ask a 5 year old or a "monkey" to take
> the picture, with the same result.
>
> This is why photography has degenerated as it has, and why we have to
> find new ways of making a living with photography.
>
> Just my 5c views.
>
>
> On 13-Feb-2012 10:25 AM, Doni wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > We Highly recommend this resource to any photographer who needs to
> > master splash photography technique
> > http://doni-photography.blogspot.com/2012/02/splash-photography-technique-no-flash.html
> >
> > regards
> >
> >
>
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