Hi Jeff and all, Just for the record, (sorry) things in the music and electronics biz are just as miserable... Yours fred.vansand2@verizon.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Spirer" <jeff@spirer.com> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 4:32 PM Subject: Re: love.. and money too > At 02:50 PM 9/6/2003 -0400, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: > >When you pay a cut rate for something, don't you wonder why it's less > >expensive than the full-price thing? Do you think there's no connection > >between what you pay and the thing you've bought? > > Here in San Francisco, there are so many photographers relative to the work > that if you wonder for even four seconds about it, you can figure out that > supply and demand are out of whack. It has nothing to do with quality, but > most of the photographers are working for a lot less than five years ago > and print prices are way down. > > It's not just photography. A painter friend, someone with work in museums, > will discount to 50% of her usual price to sell paintings. These are large > oil paintings, lots of time and energy invested in them. > > So don't assume that low price is the same as low quality. > > > Jeff Spirer > Photos: http://www.spirer.com > One People: http://www.onepeople.com/ > Surfaces and Marks: http://www.withoutgrass.com > >
