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yes, maggie, but it's so much fun to wind these boys up, non?
yes, maggie, but it's so much fun to wind these boys up, non?
Why not? My belief is based on many years experience as a professional artist in both the midwest and in Santa Fe, a place with more artists than anywhere in the USA except New York and Los Angeles. I have known literally thousands of women who were artists or art students and few are photographers compared to the number of men. In recent years I have seen, here in Indiana, an greatly increasing number of women getting into wedding and portrait photography. They're still outnumbered by men in that field too but I do think eventually that may change in that one field of professional photography.
I know you are an art professor, and you're probably basing your disagreement with me on the enrollment you see in the college where you teach. I wonder, though, how many of your female students will end up as professional photographers of some sort or another and how many will move on to other careers after they graduate. Very few of my classmates of either sex stuck with photography long after they left school; it is too hard to make a living and most people don't have the dedication it takes to endure that struggle. Three of my classmates stuck with photography. Two of us are men, one a woman. If I remember right, there was about an equal number of men and women in my classes, but as I noted more men than women stuck with it. That's a small sample size based on the people I went to school with; you know more photo students than I do. How many of the men and how many of the women actually stick to it.
The women I went to school with who majored in painting, sculpture, graphic design, and printmaking have stayed with it to a much greater degree than the photo women did. I don't know why that is though. Most of these women do not earn a living from it. In fact, I cannot think of any that do. They're married and living off their husbands, which makes staying with art as a hobby or as a profession one hopes to make money at, easier. Those who majored in photo could do that too, but have not. Like I said, I don't know why.
OK.. Ladies I need some help.
My GF likes my M3 but she said she would like her own but with a built in meter. Her teenage daughter has pinched the digital I bought her.
I was thinking pre TTL M6 with a a Summicron 35mm as her primary lens... It would be surprise present.
Suggestions/advice please ladies. 😀
OK.. Ladies I need some help.
My GF likes my M3 but she said she would like her own but with a built in meter. Her teenage daughter has pinched the digital I bought her.
I was thinking pre TTL M6 with a a Summicron 35mm as her primary lens... It would be surprise present.
Suggestions/advice please ladies. 😀
BTW, both of my film Leicas are meterless. Still, that said, I'd love an M6. I think. I mean, honestly, I think my eye is better than a meter most of the time and my negs seem to concur. Pix? Of course!
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BTW, I didn't trip the shutter in the first photo, because the light was CRAP from the other direction.
Thanks, Ted! I don't think my eyes always had perfect pitch, but sort of like my ears, they're gotten a little bit closer every year. Practice may not make perfect, but it does make you better, mostly.
The guitar in that photo is my modded Gretsch 5120:
It hasn't seen much action since I got the Rick Kelly Bowery Pine Tele, tho'.
My main electric lately has been a black China made yamaha rgx-a2, mainly because it's light, and stays in tune, and I don't mind if it gets knocked around a bit.
Maggieo- Affordable leicas... Not that much money is unfortunately alot for me. I know if I save up I can usually get what I am looking for, but then if I have a pot of money the cat gets sick or something breaks... How do you like the M-4? I have read disparaging things about it on the forum as if it is not up to snuff. However on cameraquest Gandy praises the m4 cameras for saving Leica's butt but also being the last extremely well made ones for a long time.
Maggieo- Affordable leicas... Not that much money is unfortunately alot for me. I know if I save up I can usually get what I am looking for, but then if I have a pot of money the cat gets sick or something breaks... How do you like the M-4? I have read disparaging things about it on the forum as if it is not up to snuff. However on cameraquest Gandy praises the m4 cameras for saving Leica's butt but also being the last extremely well made ones for a long time.
What's not to like about an M4? Best of the Ms, I would think.
What's not to like about an M4? Best of the Ms, I would think.