Chas... Good one!

Enjoy...




Gotta run dude.....
The garlic Jumbo shrimps with linguine is coming out.... Yum!

The big problem I see with phone photos is the lousy lenses used for these phones - not the megapixels. I still get incredible results using my 2.1 Megapixel digital camera with a 20/1 macro-zoom lens.

My mentor, and recently deceased old friend, Lefty Kreh, once said to me, it's not the camera as much as it is the person holding that camera that determines whether or not the photo comes out great or is just a snapshot. Lefty wrote one of the most incredible books on outdoor photography ever written. He was the greatest fly fisherman ever known, but was equally known for his photographic skills and sold hundreds of thousands of photos worldwide.

Gary

Al ... that's a great photo of you ...

Thanks Tony...it was taken with a Cell Phone two weeks ago at a gig. LOL

Al I liked the whole picture with your setup?

UPDATE: My son just walked in the door from a trip to Chuck Rubin Photographics in Louisville with a check for $850.00.

What a trip down memory lane. I bought all the equipment new. Items of interest were a twin lense Yashica Matt D, a Pentax manual K 1000 (the college photography class standard), a Pentax 6x7 system (lense hood, body, close up adapters, three lenses...lots more...$4500.00 new), an old reversing Kodak slide machine. A Cannon XL 1 video camera, which cost $4500.00 15 years ago brought $50.00.

Since it was lot priced, I'm not sure what each item brought. I stopped figuring when I added up about 1/2 the stuff at over $20,000.00 when purchased new.

Logan says the guy is great, and they talked for over an hour about the photography business today, what our company does for a living and other interesting stuff. Turns out, when I Lived in Louisville in the 60's, he used to go to Bucket and Lina's at 15th and Magazine to hear my jazz group (2:00 AM to 6:00 AM in a place no sober person should have ever gone).

This has been a sobering day. Damn, some of that old stuff was COOL!


Russ

Let me know if you'd like this guy's phone number.

Photography is pretty much like music; most people do not get rich unless you are very specialized and willing to hustle hustle hustle.