Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tuesday, Tuesday, December 01, 1998, Ted Grant wrote: Along with a bunch of other stuff that makes a heck of a lota sense: > You are either a straight shooting photographer with the balls to stand and > be counted or you're a "sneak picture thief!" Ted, Tell it like it is! Photographers who have the "guts" as you call it to stand and make the photo really have the ability to disappear just by being there. Kind of like a duck blind. The ducks see it being built, know what it is then forget about it. If I am shooting a photo of something and want a person in the shot then I hang out with my camera with my subject composed and wait for someone to come along and do what I want. For example, in an area of Nashville there is a huge dragon painted on a wall. (Kim, know where I am talking about...2 blocks from your store?) If I were working for the locals I would, on a rainy day, go and basically sit on the sidewalk with the appropriate length lens and wait for someone to come along with an umbrella and walk through the photo so that it looks like the umbrella is warding off the flames the dragon is breathing out. Would make a great shot and is one I have never seen done around here. But alas, the curse of being a working photog., since no one is paying me to get wet I will probably never make this photo. But what I am driving at is that I would wager a months salary that at the MOST 1 person would ask what I was doing. And, yes when I got the image I wanted I would get the id of the person in the shot. I have only had a very few, maybe 1% of people photographed ever turn me down on giving their ids for a shot. More people would think I was either crazy or stupid to be sitting there getting wet than worry about why I had a camera. Remember there are 2 ways to photography, take a photo(steal it) and make a photo (create it). I prefer to make them. Best regards, Harrison McClary http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto preview my book: http://www.volmania.com