I post on a couple of music related boards and there are a few band photogs on them. There are some that are really good, and of course some that aren't anything to write home about.
Yesterday I am reading and one of them posts an image that got printed in a magazine. He has also had an exhibition at some joint in NJ as well, nothing huge or anything. This got me so irritated though.
Im not trying to say that Im super good at band photography (even though the bands love the stuff I shoot of them), but this kid stinks!!! He has no concept of depth of field, shutter speed, etc. He shoots always on Auto mode, never dare turning that dial to any of the manual/semi-manual modes. Kid went out and bought a d80 so he could use it as a big point and shoot essentially. It frustrates me to no end. And it is a purely jealous frustration. Im not jealous of the images he takes, I personally think mine are better by far, but Im jealous of the dumb luck this kid falls into.
Ive often suggested different techniques to him, but he just has no desire to do anything but play it safe on auto mode. Argh. It really makes me wanna get my ass in gear and get all the stuff I have planned/scheduled done and out there so I can start getting that recognition.
And the other reason that it bothers me, is there are those really good photogs from the same scene that should be getting the credit and recognition this kid is, but for some reason they aren't. Anger!
I understand. :) My little sister decided to try photography and ended up with a picture in an advertisement for a local Country Club in Golf Digest. The ad was designed locally, of course, but still. She can say she was published in GD. :)
Sometimes you just have to be in the right place at the right time (she works at the CC advertised).
does this kid know someone who works inthe music scene? Is he someone's son or brother or whatever? That could be the case and maybe he's just getting a lucky break by being related to someone, or he knows someone in the magazine etc etc.
does this kid know someone who works inthe music scene? Is he someone's son or brother or whatever? That could be the case and maybe he's just getting a lucky break by being related to someone, or he knows someone in the magazine etc etc.
It's not what you know...
Nah, its hardcore music, so there really isn't that much "networking", he just lucks out.
I rather not share his, just because I don't want to risk this getting back to him haha. Hes a nice enough kid, just not willing to learn or try anything new.
That kind of fame just comes from the luck of the draw about who happens to see the images. It's like having a band that is great but never is heard by the right person to make it take off. Don't give up, accept that this happens, and keep spreading your images around until one gets picked up, and then it will snowball from there if it is going to happen at all.
He has the door open and is riding the "wave".
Twenty years ago, in my college days, I was a jazz musician. There was a guy at my music school, who in my opinion, wasn't very good, definitely not as good as several others in the school. But he was one of those people who would talk to anybody, and he was very good at putting himself in the right place at the right time. He ended up playing in Art Blakey's band, which at the time was the starting point for the great jazz musicians. Now he has a solo and recording career, and I hear him on the radio regularly.
ART - Yes. He has a rare disorder, only 30 people for ever 3 million, which can also be said as 10 people for every 1 million, or 1 for every 100k, have, which causes his crotch to emit a strange glow. It has something to do with the pigmentation and growing up under power lines.
Argh. It really makes me wanna get my ass in gear and get all the stuff I have planned/scheduled done and out there so I can start getting that recognition.
If this is what it takes for you to get your ass in gear then I say "f%$# that punk" :-)
ART - Yes. He has a rare disorder, only 30 people for ever 3 million, which can also be said as 10 people for every 1 million, or 1 for every 100k, have, which causes his crotch to emit a strange glow. It has something to do with the pigmentation and growing up under power lines.
I live near Three Mile Island, but my crotch doesn't glow......any more than the rest of me does.....8>)
Twenty years ago, in my college days, I was a jazz musician. There was a guy at my music school, who in my opinion, wasn't very good, definitely not as good as several others in the school. But he was one of those people who would talk to anybody, and he was very good at putting himself in the right place at the right time. He ended up playing in Art Blakey's band, which at the time was the starting point for the great jazz musicians. Now he has a solo and recording career, and I hear him on the radio regularly.
He still isn't very good. And it still annoys me.
If Bob Dylan didn't write great songs and music, nobody would ever have let him sing.....8>)
Some friends of mine were really, REALLY good for a number of years, but it just wasn't in the cards for them to hit it big.
I'll never forget one night that we were at this biker bar they were playing, and they just got a weird thing going and did Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb"......it was abso-freakin'-lutely awesome, they NAILED it! When they finished it was dead silent for about 30 seconds, then the people just went wild! It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime kind of things. I've never heard that doen anywhere before or since that even approached that night.
And it was all they could do to get gigs. Go figure!
So if I am hearing NikonJeb correctly - don't bother to get your ass in gear - it may just not be in the cards for you like it is for the kid you referred to.
