Excellent Picture Of Any: Any good photographer will soon work out standard Lighting plans and exposure and development constants, so that catalog technique becomes a routine which produces good pictures almost automatically.
All-in-all, catalog photography can hardly be considered exciting, but a few catalog accounts can provide an excellent picture of any bread-and-butter basis for anyone.
I was awakened in the small hours of the morning several years ago by a telephone call from a man who wanted to pay me a hundred dollars to come and take one picture of a beautiful woman, just one simple single-flash picture. Perhaps you can guess why this picture, which he could ordinarily have got someone to take for five or ten dollars, was so important to him that he offered a hundred. It was because the beautiful woman was his estranged wife, from whom he was seeking a divorce, and she was at that tune in a compromising situation.
The advantages to the buyer are obvious. Does it seem like a bad arrangement for the photographer? At first glance it might seem so, but when this same picture is sold over and over, perhaps fifty times in the course of years, the photographer eventually realizes a handsome total return for his effort in shooting the picture for stock sales.
That's why the stock picture photographer doesn't get rich quick, but enjoys a long-term income advantage for his work. Many a picture has earned, over a period of years, more than $1,000 in fees.
The picture was important because it constituted legal evidence. My would-be client didn't want to take a chance on entrusting this picture to just any photographer, because he was afraid the picture might be muffed.
I turned down the job for two reasons: first because I don't want my Camera to embarrass any woman and second because I didn't want to be dragged into court as a witness in the divorce case.
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