Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jem asked... - ---- "Do you have a stranger story to tell of a reluctant portrait session?" - ---- One time I had a in-home sitting to shoot a portrait of gramma & grampa. TRYING to get grampa to smile was like trying to freeze water with a bonfire! He was as poker-faced as you can get! However...every time the flash went off...you've never seen the biggest beautiful smile as any happy person could garner between two ears. Then my funnybone kicked-in and I outsmarted the ole Fox. I pulled out another flashgun...inserted a bulb...and held it high (like we use to do to throw the shadow behind the subject...remember those good-ole flashbulb days?...hmm?). When I got the perfect smile from gramma...I fired my foney-flash for gramps' benefit. Once he saw the flash go off...he immediately relaxed and created the only-one smile ever captured on film previously...because THAT's when I gottem...with the real-flash. When gramma saw the portrait...she burst into tears with happiness...and I was continually hounded by family members with: "Hownahell didja git the ole-geezer to smile!?"...which...by the way...is making me smile NOW as I recall this experience for you.... ED.