Comments on: It’s an experience http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/09/14/its-an-experience/ Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua writes on the photo business and marketing Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:40:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ivan P Simeon (MySimeon) http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/09/14/its-an-experience/#comment-66 Ivan P Simeon (MySimeon) Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:27:45 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/09/14/its-an-experience/#comment-66 "The show must go on (Freddy Mercuri / Queen)" Often I think about this song when on a job. It's amazing how clients react on the "show" we do when we shoot. It's part of the game. A big American Consumer staples company just asked me for an offer, asking me to emphasize on the show as they would like to invite people to watch me working on pictures for a new Fragrance. That mean extra models, extra lights ("so that it flashes a lot" quoting my client), extra film rolls, loud music and lot of fun for everybody including the clients. I had to remember the client that I am also a photographer who cares about the quality of his pictures, a question of reputation. I suggested to find another showmaster if great pictures wasn't the goal. Strange world. How lucky you were to participate at a meeting of the Dalai Lama. Great person. By the way, he wrote some nice books. I am wondering how it would be to do a portrait photos shoot with him. Would anything be on the pictures ? Wouldn't be the best picture of him an empty picture ? “The show must go on (Freddy Mercuri / Queen)” Often I think about this song when on a job. It’s amazing how clients react on the “show” we do when we shoot. It’s part of the game.

A big American Consumer staples company just asked me for an offer, asking me to emphasize on the show as they would like to invite people to watch me working on pictures for a new Fragrance. That mean extra models, extra lights (”so that it flashes a lot” quoting my client), extra film rolls, loud music and lot of fun for everybody including the clients. I had to remember the client that I am also a photographer who cares about the quality of his pictures, a question of reputation. I suggested to find another showmaster if great pictures wasn’t the goal. Strange world.

How lucky you were to participate at a meeting of the Dalai Lama. Great person. By the way, he wrote some nice books. I am wondering how it would be to do a portrait photos shoot with him. Would anything be on the pictures ? Wouldn’t be the best picture of him an empty picture ?

]]> By: Jason Noffsinger http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/09/14/its-an-experience/#comment-64 Jason Noffsinger Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:35:42 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/09/14/its-an-experience/#comment-64 Hi Leslie, I am a long time reader of your posts on forums and, now, this blog. The above post made me think of a quote from one of the Dalai Lama's poems I found in the Rocky Mountain News yesterday - http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4988919,00.html "The budding scientist then reeled off lines from one of his favorite poems by the Dalai Lama - one called The Paradox of our Age: We have become long on quantity, but short on quality . . . It's a time when there is much in the window but nothing in the room." It's as if he was writing about the current state of the photo industry - RF, Subscription, microstock, 4.9 million images on ALAMY. Could it be that striving for quality is the path to enlightenment ;-) Thanks for the great blog. Jason Noffsinger Hi Leslie,

I am a long time reader of your posts on forums and, now, this blog. The above post made me think of a quote from one of the Dalai Lama’s poems I found in the Rocky Mountain News yesterday - http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4988919,00.html

“The budding scientist then reeled off lines from one of his favorite poems by the Dalai Lama - one called The Paradox of our Age:
We have become long on quantity, but short on quality . . .
It’s a time when there is much in the window but nothing in the room.”

It’s as if he was writing about the current state of the photo industry - RF, Subscription, microstock, 4.9 million images on ALAMY.

Could it be that striving for quality is the path to enlightenment ;-)

Thanks for the great blog.

Jason Noffsinger

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