Read these words again, for they are wise: >Most working photographers earn the same decent living >as everyone here, which is nothing to write home >about. These photographers have to put food on the >table and pay bills just like everybody else. And to >suggest that working photographers can afford >expensive cameras on a yearly basis is an odd thing to >say. Unless you know of many photographers who make a >6 to 8 figures salary, the rest are just slaving away >at their jobs. Equipment upgrade is probably the last >thing on their minds, since it means having to provide >the cash outlay from somewhere to finance the >equipment purchase. I have seen a lot of promising >working photographers who are talented artists only to >have done extremely poor business wise. > >Of the many working professionals I know and have met >during my career as a photographer, most to all of >them don't *want* to have anything to do with >photography at all after work. After an 8 hours shift >with your camera, do you really want to spend another >4 hours in front of your computer talking about the >subject you already spent 8 hrs earlier? Unless you >are a "no-life" photographer, I suspect most pro >photographers spend most of their off hours time with >their wives, girlfriends and their kids. No doubt, >there are "so-called" working photographers lurking in >the forum somewhere trying to help and promote the >industry, but I would exercise my judgement as to what >is fact and what is hearsay, expecially when they are >coming from the net..
Well put, Rick. Basically, those that can, do. My God, the very last place I would consider ending up on the www is a professional video cameraman's forum. I come here to the PDML to - relax - and hang out occasionally with other people who enjoy good old metal-bodied Pentax gear, and excellent speculation about new digital stuff. Enjoy this place for what it is <g>. Cotty. PS: Coulthard WON - go the Brits! ____________________________________ Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ ____________________________________ Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/ ____________________________________
