Digital BW, The Print

Hi David:

 

Certainly interesting issues that have many possible responses-actually, too
many for the current thread.  One hopes that two "older timers" might have
an opportunity to meet over some libations and discuss the questions that
you have raised.  I doubt if either of us have all the answers. 

 

Stay well and best for the holidays.

 

Elliot

 

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Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: OT - Luminous Landscape

 

  

Elliot ,

 

Hi. I don't have a problem with anyone making an income or just recovering
costs on their web sites, but this periodic fee or no access plan has
already proven itself a loser.

Photographers definitely do not like the "I have a secret and you have to
pay to hear it" approach.

It is like a certain individual I have been having an on and off dispute
with recently who "has a secret" and won't reveal it under any circumstances
but a $1000 workshop setting, $2000 with expenses.

Only the well off have access to that knowledge. Definitely not the custom
in photography for the last century or so.

If you make your information freely available, people will STILL sign up for
your workshops and STILL buy your books. In fact, all of those areas will be
greatly enhanced. Ansel Adams proved this approach correct a long time ago.

 

You don't have to be a secret keeper to make a living. You just have to know
how to do it right. Fee based web sites are absolutely NOT the right way to
deal with the internet. People don't like it, won't go to your web site and
won't buy anything you have to offer. Millions of web site owners have
proven this the hard way. The internet is a means of making your reputation
so that people will be interested in your product. The only reason Adobe is
getting away with it (maybe) is that they have a captive audience. Photoshop
is a must have tool and what Adobe is doing is really quite low.

 

If they weren't the only game in town, I believe their bottom line would be
in considerable pain right now. They wouldn't tell us if it was.

 

 

David Kachel

 

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