Are there people out their still getting paid well enough to be shooting large format and film?
How is business these days. I pretty much shoot all digital commercially now.
Best regards
Are there people out their still getting paid well enough to be shooting large format and film?
How is business these days. I pretty much shoot all digital commercially now.
Best regards
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Unfortunately very FEW photographers really get paid well.
I had a film assignment last year shooting 8x10. Can't remember my last film assignment other than that.
My business is fine-art photography, which is 100% LF...and I make enough money to keep photographing, but the day job pays the bills and feed the kids.
My last commercial assignment was getting on the roof and then climbing up a couple of ladders to the top of the elevator structure on the County Jail to make a panaramic shot with the 8x10 (consisting of four 4x10's) onto color transparency film. This is the highest building in Eureka.
Vaughn
All of my wedding and portraiture work is now digital based. Even landscape prints I sell have come from digital images or high MP stitched digital images. Some of the landscape prints I’ve sold have however come from LF negs, so yes, I guess I have earned some from LF.
i get a handful of habs/haer assignments a year.
they are mostly LF, and i can't complain.
It was fun, but climbing up 20' ladders leaning (not fixed to the building) against the upper reaches of the building with the 8x10 was a bit of a challenge. Then the roof of the elevator shaft was an uneven spongy rubber layer. At least there was no wind that day! The job originally was to be from a lower roof of the courthouse and only found out about the jail roof part when I got there!
But you are right -- I'll stick with the fine art aspect of photography (especially since my day job is taking care of a teaching darkroom for a university Art Department!), and leave the weddings and other commercial shoots to those who enjoy that aspect of photography!
Vaughn
Up until October of 2006, I made my living with film and a view camera, now the commercial work is 95% digital. My personal work is still 95% 4x5 film.
Thanks,
Kirk
at age 73:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
I have been floating on the surface for almost 3 years.
Considering the doubts and fears I had,I have far exceeded my expectations.
Now it's time to glide effortlessly
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