Category: Business
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What He Said
” He ” being the chap who wrote the advertising copy for the agency selling new digital cameras. What he said was you have to buy the new digital camera from the manufacturer and you have to give the shop some $ 3500.00. If you don’t, you’ll be in trouble. Know what I mean…? Well……
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Put Your Money Down And Walk Away
And no-one gets hurt. It’s new marketing for a brutal age. Gone are the days when we had to show you half-clad girls lounging on Ferraris – or on Exakta cameras, for that matter. We no longer need to entice you – all we do is threaten you and the money is ours. Of course,…
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Gotta Get Either…
Better, cheaper, bigger, smaller, or weirder if you are going to make it in the photo world. ‘Cause most of the easy seats are filled and musical chairs is still going on. Suppose you have a standard camera – it can be a full-frame or APS-C – and you fancy a new lens. You probably…
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What Creating Content Meant
It meant creating contentment. And it generally did not require a vlogging camera. Times has changed. Now you must use the latest vlogging camera to create content. Whether people are happy with it or not is beside the point. If you inch up the SEO chart with your exposé of how to unscrew a jam…
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The Entire Plan
And why we don’t have one. I never realised at the start of my photographic career…and I use the term in its broadest sense…that I never had a complete plan. I was within a small circle of endeavour that was whole; the photos I took and developed were for the high school yearbook, and this…
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Carry On, Sergeant.
A 1958 launch of one of the longer-running gags on the British cinema screen. Most of the following films were rewarding and some delightful. As a philosophy it also applies very much to photography today. We are being bombarded with advertisements that urge us to change, followed by news that tries to make us despair.…
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When Does Frugal And Sensible Behaviour Start To Say…
” Bah. Humbug. “ When it starts to see people spending money they do not have on items they do not need. Then discarding these for newer goods upon the urging of advertisers. Of course the miser will be scorned by those who have the shiny new toys, and those who wish they could have…
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If It’s Not A Hustle, It’s A Side Hustle.
Or else it’s nothing…so the Internet seems to think. Everything is a sale. I want to write and illustrate a book. The topic will be scale model tabletop photography. I am assured there is ample technical support for writing and editing it, publishing, and promoting it, selling and branding and optimising…and it sounds like a…
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Tape It Up, Tony
It looks silly. It looks naff. It looks cheap. But it makes you look. And that is why there are twin stripes of yellow reflecting tape wound round everything in the studio. Every tripod leg, light stand leg, studio stand arm…and as many levers, clamps, and hazards as I can find. I have briefly considered…
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Promise Of Change
Change can disturb the older person – we grow so tied to things that we are familiar with that we baulk at anything new. It will all be so hard! But what are we to say when the changes are going to be done by others, but will benefit us? I’m as greedy for undeserved…
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