On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:15:21 GMT, Jean-David
Beyer <jeandavid8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
....
if you were competent, you would not be
selling snake oil.
....
June 6, 2007, from Lloyd Erlick,
Thank you!
regards,
--le
>glen bach wrote:
>> To have photo money start rolling in, there's no need to be Ansel
>> Adams.
>
>That would not be enough. He had to make portraits, shoot industrial
>machinery for advertisements, and lots of other boring stuff just to pay
the
>bills. Edward Weston had it worse, doing photographs of dead babies,
making
>tedious photographs of ugly people that he spent hours of his time
>retouching. Wynn Bullock had to run a portrait studio too.
>
>Adams started making money only after working hard at it for many
decades.
>Weston never really made any money, and I doubt Wynn Bullock did either.
>
>> You just need to be competent.
>
>Well, if you were competent, you would not be selling snake oil.
>
>> The mere fact that you've
>> considered starting a photography career - and you have, or you
>> wouldn't be reading this - says that you more than likely have all the
>> shooting skill necessary to generate lots of happy clients - and to
>> make plenty of money selling your photography.
>
>While I _may have_ the required shooting skill, and even the necessary
>darkroom skills, I do not have a business manager who is capable of
running
>the business, a marketing manager who can get me famous, or the
temperament
>to make the images paying customers would want.
>
>> Once launched, your photography, marketing skills and sales are going
>> to dramatically increase. Soon you'll be creating better and better
>> work as well as making more and more money. Maybe someday you WILL be
>> compared to Ansel Adams!
>
>That is not even a goal of mine. I do not want to be the next Ansel
Adams; I
>want to be the first ME. And if that is not good enough, I will make my
>living doing something else.
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