> I have had stands at numerous trade shows, locally and even one at the NEC! > I'm sorry but I therefore disagree with you. If your job is as a sales > member of staff then that is what you should be doing. When I'm knackered > after 12 hours on a shoot, I may feel lousy but I would not treat my clients > like s**t, I wouldn't survive without them.
This may seem to be part of the me-too-ism trend, but I can tell that my last experience with the PhotoPlus in NY was nearly as dissapointing as yours with inFocus. ALL the seminars and workshops were , at least , one hour short and the relevant presentations , like that of these 2 brothers photogs who went "unembedded" into Irak, walking a very dangerous path through Afganistan without any military/police protection ( and shooting all in digital,with a fantastic set up to send images via satellite) were disgracefully closed down without time for Q&A and everybody was angry ,but there was no way to continue with the discussions. Digital workshops were "packed" as to be able to run the whole show in 2-3 hours, including the "hands-on" worshops. Again, no time for Q&A, ever!! We wanted to test some printers and found out they were scarcely supplied, so the Fuji dye printers would only supply 4x6 postcards, the Agfa machines would supply only 8x10 because they did not have any other paper size, etc,etc and the performance of the operators was just terrible, with no knowledge of color management or calibration issues. They just punched buttons in Auto. Chromira would show you a print coming out of the machine ( turned off) but they would not run a test with your own file, etc,etc Sales people at the different kiosks had terribly diferent levels of training and knowledge on what they were supposed to be selling-promoting-demoing and it was so dissapointing overall that I am seriously considering wether to attend this year or not. Several colleagues expressed the same feelings about this. Looks like the people behind the money trail ( VNU/PDN for this matter in PhotoPlus) are making good tons of money but caring very litle about the photographers who are eventually the ones who are making their business grow. It's sad to find out same trend is happening in England too. Jorge Parra =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
