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If It Works…
And does exactly what you are trying to accomplish. Do not replace it with the next advertised product. This may seem to be basic Franklinian logic, and welcome, but you would be surprised at how it grates upon the sensibilities of major equipment makers. It is anathema to every department in their company. Change is…
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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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The National Photographers
Also the state and local shooters. The ones who never travel overseas to do their photography. The stay-at-homes. Are they unfortunate? Possibly. They may live in Andorra and long for tropical beaches. Or in a city and hope for open fields. The human mind is very fertile when it comes to thinking up wishes that…
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Shy Guy Sits Freezing
And starving. That’s what social inability can do for you. It can also be laziness or miserliness…or indigence. The last named is unfortunate, but the first two are culpable. Asses that do not get up off their own deserve to be uncomfortable. The answer is to get up, put on more clothes, and go make…
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” I’m Sorry You Had To See That. “
Which is photography speak for ” Shit, that was a bad idea – done badly. I wonder if I could sell it on the net? “ We all do naff images at times. The lucky amongst us do them in our own studios and delete them as soon as they pop up on Lightroom. The…
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If All You Want Is A Fight, There’s No Need To Be Unpleasant About It…
This was a line from a Sean Connery movie – The Molly Maguires. It was derived from part of a Sherlock Holmes novel and adapted by Hollywood. Not a bad movie, as it happened. But it is also applicable to a lot of commercial behaviour in retail sales. Not surprisingly, a number of people who…
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” Dat Ol’ Chromatic Aberration “
” Dat we hate so well…” As an avid experimenter in photography I am resigned to the fact that some of my ideas will blow up in my face. My eyebrows have grown back many times… The latest explosive idea was to make use of a legacy camera in my little studio. The premises are…
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It’s Only Work If You Complain
And no-one is listening anyway… My weekend’s work a little while ago was to fail. By both narrow and wide margins. And then to analyse my failure correctly. Lest this start to sound like some Chinese communist self-criticism meeting, let me assure you I do not own a little red book. and for that matter…
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The Experts Got It Wrong
And you followed them blindly…right over the edge of the cliff…into the center of the minefield. Cool, eh? You’ve been YouTubed again. At least this time you didn’t get sucked into the five-hour jump from one site to another. Umm, is this a bad time to mention you are still wearing a tutu? Every presenter…
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Distressing News
As a photographer there is always going to be something bugging you… A. Something you do not have. It will be shown to you by the company that sells it. Your distress is a commercial opportunity that will be created, then exploited. The money flow is from your pocket to their bank account and it…
Dr. Stein's Photographic Establishment
Photographic Life In The Little Studio
Dr. Stein's Photographic Establishment 