weekly favorite bouldering pic thread - new.age

[RockPharmer]

... and my lady climbing her first outdoor VB+

SPRAYLORD!!!!

[600#gorilla]

doh.

i dig the pix - more pix!

[Tronic]

i wish i could show you the good pix............



Rocco spots Kyle Mcfarland on another FA in the High Uinta while Jamie and Mary look on.

Why can't we see the good pix? You sold the rights? "Crushing in bright colored shirts" Norope would be proud.

[KIX]

Why can't we see the good pix? You sold the rights?

.....and you split the proceeds evenly with all the climbers?

[600#gorilla]

Why can't we see the good pix? You sold the rights?

.....and you split the proceeds evenly with all the climbers?

yeah.

just like you split the proceeds evenly with the guys that actually build the planes at boeing.

in fact, i used you as a model for profit sharing.

we all made $27.50 after expenses.

Imagine being a freelance photographer. . . Imagine being able to travel with the pros and visit exotic lands and see beautiful climbing areas and rich cultures. Now imagine the amount of money it requires to buy today’s photo equipment, the plane tickets, the external hard drives and the computers and editing software. Add up the fact that editorial page rates for photos within the climbing industry are in the hundreds (not thousands) of dollars.

Now think about the fact that in the US there are only four climbing magazines, and three of them have in-house photographers (fat cats) that work exclusively for those publications to provide all (or most) of the imagery in the magazines. Suddenly, the need for your photos dwindles and your ability to travel or purchase new equipment with the money you earned from your photos dwindles away with it. Freelancing isn’t so glamorous anymore is it?

These fat cats, on the other hand, do quite well, but not because they are more talented than freelance photographers, they just have found the loop hole.

These fat cats are given a small monthly budget from the magazines they work for, but what they are paid from the publication isn’t their concern. It’s the power. Their influence within the magazine allows them to (practically) dictate what photos go where in the layout. Often times, the contracted fat cat decides what photo goes on the cover and what image is used as a two-page spread.

What does this mean? Well, it means your photo isn’t making the cover, and it means that these fat cats hold a tremendous amount of leveraging power. Power that is wielded to make side deals with companies in an effort to make more money.

Here is how it works:
Mr. X is a contracted photographer with Acme Magazine. His job is to shoot 40% of the magazine’s content. Including one feature each issue. Since the magazine doesn’t have a photo editor, they let Mr. X give his input.

Mr. X is smart; he knows that companies want to have their athletes in the magazine. He also knows how valuable it is to have their products featured in the magazines within editorial content. See, Mr. X is privy to the knowledge that each one of these companies wants their athletes and their product on every page of the publication if they could. They could advertise more, but most can’t afford it, at least not at the rates the magazines charge.

Mr. X devises a plan: approach a company and see what they will pay for product placement in the magazine without the publisher’s knowledge. Mr. X’s thought is, If the magazine is charging a company $5 for a full-page ad, he can offer them a full page for $1, thus undercutting the magazine publisher allowing him to get paid twice for the same amount of work. Once an agreement is made, Mr. X then teams up with that company’s athletes, Mr. X dictates the photo placement within the magazine, and he then gets paid for what essentially amounts to an ad in the magazine. The best part for Mr. X is he is able to sell ads without paying staff to write or pay the exorbitant printing and contributor costs.

This is the dirty truth, and this practice is occurring right now in magazines covering a myriad of topics from climbing to consumer products. The question is, is it ok?

[Lox]

woulda been so much better with neon pants.

Now you get it. B.com circle of life....

Photos get posted, we slag on them knowing they are rad. Would you have it any other way? Would you hang out here if we all hyped each other up ?!?!?

In short, thanks for your contributions. And yes, I had a pair of parachute pants. Tell McFarland he needs to tie a bandanna around his thigh...

[600#gorilla]

i would hang around here if all we did was hype each other up.

i'm trying to be positive.

it's not easy.

ultimately i want about half of you - even kix and his wealthy family - to show up at my boulders and have a coca-cola with me.

[merock]

If you take blurry pics with shitty point and shoots, everyone here will love your work. It's kind of fitting.

[skav]

And the other half?

[600#gorilla]

i'm having a hard enough time with blurry pix as it is.

my two favorite lenses went down with backfocusing problems and i'm about to ship the whole kit to nikon to be re callibrated etcetera.

in nikon's defense - both lenses are around 10 years old and have been thoroughly mistreated.

post some pix.

i need inspiration.

[600#gorilla]

And the other half?

i want to have a tequila with them.

[KIX]

my only wealth is the in the experineces I create for myself.

[Lox]

... and time is just there to keep everything from happening at once.

[blimp]

sikproj

[600#gorilla]

my only wealth is the in the experineces I create for myself.

oh stop bleating - i wouldn't take pot shots at you if you'd be more selective with yours.

why don't you drive over to the high uintas this weekend in your lambrghini 4X4 and with your climbing gear and your paddleboards?

just look for my crazy camo camping van.

on sunday the fam and i hiked up to Ruth Lake elev. over 10,000ft.

i was thinking about those pix of you n yer kid on the river and was thinking that i'd prolly do something dumb like hike a board up to this pristine little lake just so i could paddle around in glassy seclusion.

then it got really windy and started to rain and we had to get the fuck out of there.

[BmfB]

sikproj

invalid w/o topless wakesurfer in pics of sikproj

[Sundowner]

i'm having a hard enough time with blurry pix as it is.

my two favorite lenses went down with backfocusing problems and i'm about to ship the whole kit to nikon to be re callibrated etcetera.

in nikon's defense - both lenses are around 10 years old and have been thoroughly mistreated.

post some pix.

i need inspiration.

These lenses are being used on a film camera I take it. If not you do have the option of using your auto-focus fine tune to adjust for that exact problem.

[600#gorilla]

what?

hmmmmmm....







..............darn!

not on the d200.

great excuse to upgrade to 300-700!

[KIX]

oh stop bleating

what do you expect from a bleating heart liberal?

[KIX]

If you take blurry pics with shitty point and shoots, everyone here will love your work. It's kind of fitting.

no. we do not love crizs' pix.