{"id":7172,"date":"2015-11-15T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T17:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/?p=7172"},"modified":"2015-11-15T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T17:20:47","slug":"can-i-get-a-copy-of-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/2015\/11\/15\/can-i-get-a-copy-of-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Get a Copy of That?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I go about my job as a photographer, I am often asked\u00a0by the people I am photographing if they can “get a copy” of the photograph. When I tell them they can purchase anything I shoot for the newspaper at our SmugMug site<\/a>, they sometimes seem a little disappointed, as though the images I make should be free for some reason. Others excitedly tell me they will purchase the image, but only a fraction of them follow through.<\/p>\n

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I dusted off my wonderful 1985-era 400mm f\/3.5 Nikkor ED-IF supertelephoto lens yesterday cover a college football game in Durant. I wanted a picture of me using it, so I handed my phone to my friend Meredith and asked her to shoot this. It was the one way I could be certain I would have the image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have often noticed that the reverse is true: if someone makes an image of me and I asked them email it or bring it to me, even if I offer to pay for it, and even if I give them my card with my email address on it, I almost never see it. In fact, I make a point, if I want to possess a picture of myself, of having someone make it with one of my cameras. Even photographers with whom I have travelled …Robert, Jim, Greg… have been reluctant to share images they have of me.<\/p>\n

I’m not quite sure what to make of all this, except to say that if I tell someone I will email a photo, I will<\/em> email that photo.<\/p>\n

I expect social media has something to do with it. People think that if they put something on their Facebook wall, somehow between the conspiracy memes and the deep fried cheesecake recipes, we’ll be able to find the photos we want, even though they will be too small and subject to Facebook’s brutal compression algorithms. Or maybe it’s just that most people are so poorly organized that they can’t weed through their tens of thousands of redundant images to send you that one photo you requested.<\/p>\n

Forgive me if I sound a bit cynical, but it’s true. “Sure, I’d be glad to sent it!” really means you will never hear from them again.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>
I made this image yesterday with my 30-year-old manual focus 400mm f\/3.5 Nikkor ED-IF. Another photographer asked me about it and could hardly believe what I told him, that it remains one of the sharpest, most powerful tools in my photographic toolbox, as you can see. (Click it to view it bigger.) For you technophiles, this image was made in aperture priority mode at f\/3.5 (“wide open”), at ISO 200 with the shutter speed falling at about 1\/1500th of a second; the player is near midfield, and I shot it from the south end zone, and, of course, it was focused manually.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I go about my job as a photographer, I am often asked\u00a0by the people I am photographing if they can “get a copy” of the photograph. When I tell them they can purchase anything I shoot for the newspaper at our SmugMug site, they sometimes seem a little disappointed, as though the images I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-ideas","category-lenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7243,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions\/7243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}