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Goodbye Hap.
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I was thinking about this on the plane to New Zealand. I’d like to be hired to shoot someone for a magazine photo spread. No assistants, no lighting, just me, the subject and a couple of cameras. I love the William Claxton/Barry Feinstein black and white thing. I think photography has gotten to such an equalized place in terms of image quality that it’s really all about who you got doing what, not that you got a well exposed and composed image of it. (Although it helps.)
Yo blud, you’re rich already. Shut the fuck up and play your guitar.
I was thinking about this on my way to Popeyes’ Tuesday 99¢ special. I’d like to be commissioned to make music. No producer, no sound engineer, no studio, just me, an acoustic guitar, and a blunt. I love that acoustic folk / pop sentimental thing. I think music has gotten to such an equalized place in terms of sonic quality that it’s really about what you’re singing about, not that you got the music know-how or even know how to play a musical instrument. (Although it helps.)
Cool Hunting covers my self-published monograph.
Thanks to Evan Orensten and Jose R. Mejia of Cool Hunting / Large Tail.
I’ve switched it up (once again) and placed any professional work onto a separate blog at my main site: sidneylo.com.
Oh, as of May 3rd, I will be self-published. If you care to read about it, I will be inundating you with links to the same blurb about my book in the coming weeks.
I skipped the gearfaggotry and HDR hole, but I’m definitely somewhere between “dammit, I suck,” and “one exposure per motive.”
Via Alex Wise.
The NY Times takes a small shot at what’s been going on with the evolution of digital photography technology and its impact on the industry. Sites like Flickr have been a massive source for Getty since they opened up their users’ images for licensing; photographers, assistants, and digital technicians alike are finding it more difficult to maintain the same day rates; costs are still soaring (and the pay rates still haven’t increased for shit in decades — unless you count the paltry online royalties that get tacked on to the day rate nowadays); and there’s a bunch of artists out there (me) hungry for some work but don’t have (m)any opportunities.
That is because amateurs are largely happy to be paid anything for their photos. “People that don’t have to make a living from photography and do it as a hobby don’t feel the need to charge a reasonable rate,” Mr. Eich said.
When you have such affordable digital technology, why would anyone pay a working photographer their day rate when you can just bust out your 15-megapixel dSLR camera and do it yourself? I’ve been trying to figure that out since I finished school and it remains to be seen if any of my attempts at an alternative business model will prove any success.
Another Asian with a Camera is a repository for outtakes, mistakes, blunders, and exorcising the good ideas from the bad. Yeah, it’s a Tumblr. It won’t really be a blog; follow it if you want to see photos — it’s not going to be something that’s even closed to polished, but, rather, things I’m working on or random snaps to get myself back in the right direction.
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