If you have done as much retouching as I have on architectural imagery, then you would know what "efflorescence" was. BTW, my quote to remove the efflorescing in the above photo would be about three or four hundred bucks. But I am far too cheap to actually pay myself that kind of money. And besides, it would just end up being a photo of a plain wall.
Jim, your services are worth much more than you're not paying yourself. Sort of like this exchange between Groucho and a faculty member in "Horse Feathers:"
Wagstaff: "How much am I paying you fellows?" Professor: "Five thousand a year...but we've never been paid." Wagstaff: "In that case, I'll raise you to eight thousand."
It's a sad fact of life that I can recite line after line of dialogue from the films "This is Spinal Tap" and "Airplane!". But next to those fabulously funny quotes, my favorite bit of dialogue is from a late 1950's film that I have never seen.
In the film "Funny Face", Audrey Hepburn, as a fashion model, says to Fred Astaire, playing the part of a fashion photographer, "Trees are beautiful. Why don't you photograph trees?"
Astaire responds, "I do what I do for a living. It has to do with supply and demand. You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees."
Astaire's quote still rings true today. For me, the supply and demand part involves sitting in front of a computer most days doing post-production and retouching on very hi-res digital photographic files generated by some pretty talented professional photographers.
But in my spare time, I take a lot of photos of trees and such with very low-tech plastic "toy" film cameras, like Holgas and various Diana clones.
And Fred Astaire is correct more than fifty years later.
There still isn't much of a demand for pictures of trees.
Great photo! I had to look up "efflorescence," and I congratulate you on choosing that title over the synonymous "saltpetering."
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DeleteIf you have done as much retouching as I have on architectural imagery, then you would know what "efflorescence" was.
BTW, my quote to remove the efflorescing in the above photo would be about three or four hundred bucks. But I am far too cheap to actually pay myself that kind of money. And besides, it would just end up being a photo of a plain wall.
Jim, your services are worth much more than you're not paying yourself. Sort of like this exchange between Groucho and a faculty member in "Horse Feathers:"
ReplyDeleteWagstaff: "How much am I paying you fellows?"
Professor: "Five thousand a year...but we've never been paid."
Wagstaff: "In that case, I'll raise you to eight thousand."