david_fields1

Any large format photographers looking for an assistant in Chicago please let

me know...

Shoot with a manual focus. Get two polarizers, a good multi-coated for your lens, and a second-hand one to carry in your hand to preview prospective scenes while leaving your camera in the bag. Look around at or near 90 degrees to the sun through your "hand-held" and if something looks like a potentially good photo, bring out the camera and shoot. If not, come back at a different time of day and see what you get. And of course as allways, underexpose because it's slide film.

Kodachrome 64 "polarized" can give GREAT royal blue skies if the sky to begin with is, sort of frosty, no haze, with lots of cumulus'.

This is a great film though much derided by chronic E-6'rs

"The Artist in Society: Problems & Treatment of the Creative Personality" by Dr. Lawrence Hatterer

"Witness to the Fire - Creativity and the veil of Addiction"" by Linda Schierse Leonard

Was it proposed awhile back, to group users by the area they live in? I'd like

to know who my Photo.Net neigbors are....?

I'm not sure I get the point of your question. Are you suggesting that famous photog's are charlatans for needing experts to light their photos or is it that it was the SAME person hired?

Also, where did you read of this?

Not at all. The "exposure"(reputation) is exactly that - a photographer who works for free/gives away his copyright/the shirt on his back/etc.

By accepting, not only do you undermine yourself, but the entire profession. Turning down is a declaration that you ARE in business.

www.editorialphoto.com/outreach has some interesting takes on just what you're wondering about.....

Is it still possible in this day and age to apprentice ("assist") a pro/expert

without being a graduate of a "photo school", or forking over $300 to join the

ASMP/PPA/APA etc. in a big city like Chicago? The few if any direct leads

available are more like arrangements procurred by the two avenues stated.

I don't care about weddings/fashion/glamour, although lighting techniques are

usefull, but more like schlepping one's equipment over a hilltop while learning

a thing or two along the way.

My attempts have been fruitless. 'Even advertised "learning not earning main

objective on Helix' bullitan board. If they just looked at my material for 10

minutes it'd feel like a start!

What more could I do - shouldn't do?

How might photography change there in the near future? There was this guy on

the evening news exited about starting up fast-food joints.

Yeh, right. The old architecture in the backround, old cars foreground, and

smack-dab in the middle a McDonalds/KFC/Subway/etc.

Allready nauseous.

Anyone W/any experiance with this exta gadget? How well do these shots-

panaramic 35's come out compared to say, the Pan-X?

I suppose it depends on the brand. But I am certain that the displays I come across aren't worth it, compared to years ago when you could hold the shutter open 5-7 seconds with Kodachrome 64/25 and

get good trails.

Last week I posted a question reguarding present day fireworks

compared to fireworks of years ago which were much better to

photograph because they had longer drag(trails). These days they

disintegrate as fast as they explode.

It never got posted, now that the new year celebrations are over,

and wonder should I re-post?

I'm a devout Kodachrome user and I can tell you if there's any film I would NOT use for flowers it'd be Kodachrome. Most any of the E-6 films will do for color saturation and green foilage.

"Landscapes" is too vague as to what you want to be set straight on.

Keith, Erin:

The fact that YOU answered shows that you DO care.

Mig Mig, we all know THAT stuff

Leicaphiles if interesested, Is it an "M" of sorts around the

musician's neck on their first album cover?

"....stealing the subject's(one's) soul"

Translation: Violating the "sublects"(one's) boundries.

Continuing where I left off, the fact that you, Ashley, were the only response, presupposes a notion that I'm forming about estabolished photogs - they simply guard there perch (what's left of it due to digital...) so no one comes near.

I do realize that 10-15 years ago assisting jobs abounded unlike now.

We can get all the friendly advice from places like Photo.net, but where's the real thing???

I'm saying if there's anyone with anything concerning assisting - Where/how to go look / estabolished pro's looking for help /

"benevolent" mentors / etc., as opposed to "photography schools"

From what I've gathered, serious amateurs looking for real guidance/

work experiance have to go find it on there own...

Would it make sense to post info reguarding what is called in

photography "assisting"(apprenticing) - I mean, isn't that the

practical route to photo education? Photo.Net and the "Professionals"

who contribute seem indifferent as opposed to photography schools.

Is RSX 50 still available - I'm told no, only 100 & 200 ?

50 was great - I'd shoot it at iso 100&1/3 in bright daylight -

outstanding...