Weighing in a little late Doug! <g> But good to see you posting, and not having to fiddle with the list (which to me has been working perfectly)!
Interesting you brought up the 'volume portrait biz'. I was looking at looking into..heh...doing that. Personally, I would find it boring, but one would learn quite a lot about lighting and such, in the least eh? As well as positioning your subject too. I could use that help! Heck, I'd be willing to be an assistant for free. (Truth, people pictures scare me, I like just about everything else) One other thing that sort of applies to your message. I've shot a lot, and want to shoot much more. I've found that with certain rolls or trips or events, I think, 'They aren't going to be good' so I take the roll to someplace cheap. When I think I've got something good, I take it to a good photofinisher. Is anyone else like that? I'll admit that some of the shots on the 'bad' roll, actually are quite good. I've never had any problems with the cheap ones, except the Price Club (Costco), where I tried twice to get some Fuji HG 1600 film processed and they were more like test rolls, and both times, their dumb machine ripped my negatives to shreds. So I guess what I'm going after is, do any of you get the feeling you have a 'dud' roll and don't want to pay top dollar to have it processed? Or should I, despite the cost, always go to my trusted photofinisher? Regards, Brad Dobo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 10:04 AM Subject: Re: Photographic Training > Taken a couple of b/w courses, shot miles of film, but my real training was > in the trenches of the volume portrait biz, where over the course of a half > million or so shots I picked up a trick or two. > > Of course, any PDML photographer worth his/her salt attends the annual > Grandfather Mountain Nature Photo Weekend. > > > At 04:16 AM 10/24/02 -0400, Brad wrote: > >Hey folks, > > > >I'm quite curious here. How many of you took some formal training in > >regards to photography? Was it a university arts degree, or a community > >college course, or something else, like training under a professional or > >having a wise friend show you the tricks. Or is it simply many years of > >simple experience and perhaps reading books? > > > >Just wondering why (besides my lack of experience) you folks are so far > >ahead of me ;-) > > > >Regards, > > > >Brad Dobo >
