That sucks. IMO his eeeh chicks blows. The guy is no longer among my facebook friends.
-- MaritimTim My private photo blog: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ My photo class blog: http://z-fotokurs.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To err is human to arr is pirate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/5/7 Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com>: > I spent several hours on Wednesday evening doing a complete rewrite of my > low light dance photography article. His comments and questions had pointed > out some basic problems, mostly that I had assumed familiarity with the dance > culture, and why you don't use flash at these events. The rewrite actually > took a lot more time than writing it the first time. > > This morning I got an email from him: > "Unfortunately, I believe it's time to let you go. This hasn't been working > at all and it's taken you way too long to get anything ready for us. It's > also taken a ridiculous amount of effort on both our parts. I've never had > this many problems getting a piece into shape. > > I want to thank you for your efforts but unfortunately I don't believe this > is a relationship that will work." > > All in all, I have to agree with him. It certainly wasn't working. A lot of > it was working from different sets of unspoken assumptions. The attempt, > however, was very enlightening. The business model for his blog seems to be > "Look at the shiny! You want the shiny, it'll make you a better photographer. > Click here and buy the shiny". > > I'm as big of a gear slut as any photographer that has walked the planet. I > love gear that lets me get pictures that I couldn't get before, or gear that > makes it easier, or makes it possible to get better quality photos. I also > love solving technical problems and making the gear to do so out of a couple > dollars worth of kit from the hardware store. But, I never realized until > now, how much more important I feel it is to get the most from your gear than > it is to have better gear. Mind you, there are a lot of photos that I can > get with my K-5 that were flat out impossible with the K-100, but that just > means that I need to use the "push the envelope" techniques in worse and > worse light. > > Unfortunately, writing about how to get more out of the gear you have doesn't > sell gear, and selling gear is what makes money. Although, I suspect for the > most part, people are going to spend what they spend on toys, and it's just a > question of which toys and for what reasons. Even on this list there seems > to be no correlation between people saying "Gear is only important in that it > doesn't get in the way" and not buying toys. > > The past few weeks did give me an idea of some fun things to write about, and > I need to decide if, and how, I'm going to do so. The only real financial > incentive I can see for writing about photography online, is to help sell my > services as a photographer. In the meantime, I've got metric buttload of > life happening to me right now, and I should get back to work on that. > > As to the piece I wrote on low light photography, all of the editing was done > in wordpress, and I didn't cut and paste what I wrote, and when I asked him > if he could send me what I wrote he replied: > "Because I worked on it quite a bit, I will not. It's only fair in terms of > ethics." > > He had also asked for a comparison between the DA40 and the DA*16-50. It > probably didn't help that my treatment of the comparison was that this is > like asking which is faster a Dodge Van or an Austin Healey Sprite, if you're > worrying which of these two lenses is faster you need to stop pixel peeping, > turn off your computer, go outside and take some photos". > > > > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
