Re: [PRODIG] A Sunday Musing - Digital Photography - it's soooooooooooo easy!

[Andrew Lopez-Calvete]

I think that Keith's comment rounds this thread off nicely, Sure we 
could all turn up and shoot something respectable with a half decent 
digital compact, but the clients would look at the gear and say "I've 
got one of those, therefore I can get the same results". Conversely if 
you turn up with two pro bodies and a few grands worth of glass they 
feel intimidated and assume that the reason they can't do what we do is 
because we have better equipment. Unless we are prepared to workshop 
with our clients and in some way demonstrate the difference between 
being a photographer and having an expensive camera, I stand by the 
comment that Bob pulled me up on...."The only thing that marks us 'pro' 
smudgers out from punters with digital compacts is the price and 
complexity of our toys". That isn't true, but that's what a lot of 
people think and changing that would be a Herculean task.

I once met a 'friend of a friend' whose only job seemed to be drinking 
champagne and crashing Porsches (probably the best thing to do with a 
Porsche). After quizzing me about what gear I used he went out an 
bought a 1D, safe in the knowledge that it would enable him to be the 
next Henri Cartier-Bresson. After filling a micro drive with crap he 
apparently flogged it at a loss to a local press snapper who 
doubtlessly got a lot of profitable use out of it at a bargain price.

Calvers

On 1 Apr 2004, at 22:13, Keith Cooper wrote:
That said, I do shamelessly play the "big bag of equipment" card with 
-some-
clients - it's unfortunate, but if I turned up with a small silver box 
it
may not be appreciated.  Hopefully on subsequent visits the previous 
results
will have spoken for themselves. We may not like it, but it is part of 
the
'business'
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