I CAME ACROSS THIS "leading post AS I WAS CLEANING OUT MY COMPUTURE OF POSTS
AND PHOTOS BY THE HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS? AND THOUGHT?
"NOW I'M 90 YEARS OLD AND some-what RETIRED THAN ACTIVE! :-)
MAYBE SHOULD REPOST THIS POST?"
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The only time I became concerned about film on a shoot? Was when I only had a
100 rolls of film left and I hadn't got to the end of the documentary about "A
steel mill? the ranching life? Or was the baby about to arrive from the
Mother's womb" ============================
The assignment dictated quite often, "how much film you shot and nothing more
than your interest in covering the subject?"
An example? The assignment to illustrate assembling an automobile start to
being loaded on the transport vehicle and delivered to the dealers location?
Possibly several cities and States/Provinces away?
Take more story telling images than you think you'll need! It's extremely rare
you can find anyone for advice? Quite simple? Just take 2-3 hundred rolls and
click away covering the event and not counting frames shot!
"JUST SHOOT THE STORY AS YOU WOULD IF YOU WERE TELLING IT AS EACH NEW ELEMENT
COMES INTO PICTURE PLAY? ILLUSTRATING THE STORY YOU'RE TELLING/SHOWING?"
You also have to keep in mind you may be turning all your hundreds/thousands of
frames over to a "PHOTO-EDITOR" and you'll have little to do with the space and
spread allotted to your so called "in depth story?"
I have covered some events with several thousand frames and the "PHOTO EDITOR
ASK?"
"IS THIS ALL OF IT? "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING??? sun tanning??"
oh YES?
"DON'T FORGET YOU WILL ALSO HAVE TO WRITE AN IDENTIFICATION CAPTION WITH ALL
THE DETAILS AND INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE IN EACH FRAME!
ANY QUESTIONS??????????? :-)
cheers,
Dr.ted grant O.C.
(tedgrant@xxxxxxx)
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[mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Stevens ;(Redacted
sender "fritzj3" for DMARC)
Sent: July-12-19 11:45 AM
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Subject: [LRflex] Re: Question For Those Who Have Worked Commercially
Thanks, Bill. I hadn’t thought of Life magazine in a long time. Those were some
wonderful magazines to grow up looking at. I’m sure that your brother-in-law
had an adventure of a career with that publication.
Best regards,
Peter S
On Jul 12, 2019, at 2:33 PM, Bill Abbott 3 <captbilly3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David, Peter S.
My standard of excellence comes from my late brother-in-law who was a Life
magazine photographer and who was sent to New Orleans to cover Mardi Gras one
year.
He told me that he shot 13 rolls of 35mm film and was ecstatic that one photo
was published in “the book,” as the magazine was known internally. Life's
picture editors faced very limited space limitations, i.e., all the pages
that advertisers would pay for. The photo editors also displayed incredibly
artistic skills at cropping, IMHO.
Round up his Mardi Gras experience, 1 out of 468 (13x36), to 2 per 1000 for
my oeuvre, which would be about 160 in my lifetime, and I’d be happy with
that.
Bill
On Jul 12, 2019, at 8:30 AM, David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter. I cannot speak for others, but when I got my first job as a
documentary photographer, covering a visit of Chinese VIP's to our local
mine, the first thing I did was phone Ted, in a panic.
"What do I do?", I asked.
His advice was simple. "Photograph everything they see, and photograph them
seeing it." It was basic advice and it worked perfectly.
Each time (I had that regular gig for many years) I'd also try to photograph
the pit as a 4 or 5 panel pano... always hand held and done in under 20
seconds, as you can't take much time away from the real job at hand.
(Always try to give the client a little something extra!)
In my own experience, I'll shoot between 600 & 650 during a 6 to 7 hour
tour, and pare that number down to about 110-125 that I actually give the
client.
Of course, the story is told of Henri Cartier-Bresson. It seems he was
asked by the editors of the Italian edition of LIFE, to do a travelogue on
Portugal. HCB packed his Leicas and 3 rolls of 36 exp. Ektachrome. When he
returned, the editors of LIFE are said to have stated that all but 3 of his
shots were worthy of a full page presentation in the magazine.
So, how many you need to edit out probably reflects just how good you are,
or aren't!
David.
Good morning to you all. Hey, I have a question for those of you who------
have worked commercially or have taken photo assignments for
publications. Roughly how many images, be they film or digital, would
you shoot to complete the job? My question comes not only from something
that Dr Ted mentioned in the video about presenting color and b&w images
to an editor, but also from an article that I've linked below from The
Guardian on the city of Jaipur in India and the images that were used to
illustrate the article.
I'm sure that photo-editors can be ruthless in the culling of images to
include with an article; but is there an expectation on the part of the
photographer as to roughly how many images that will be need to be
captured? Specifically, I'm wondering how many images the photographer
potentially shot of Jaipur and presented to have 21 accepted and used
with the article?
Best regards,
Peter S.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/jul/11/jaipur-jewellery-johari-
bazaar-unesco-rajasthan-photo-
essay?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVS19XZWVrZGF5cy0xOTA3MTI%3D&u
tm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&CMP=GTUK_email-
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