Re: [Leica] Ted Grant: Personal photographer to the PM [Off-topic]

[Wilber Jeffcoat <jeffcoatphoto@sumter.net>]

Ted: If I may be so bold. Next time try black panty hose (washed) (with R
cameras) as a diffuser. The more tightly you stretch if the less it diffuses
and vise versa. Doesn't look very pro like shooting through what looks like
underwear, "BUT" it works.
Cheers Wilber

Ted Grant wrote:

> Ken Iisaka wrote:
>
> > I wonder who had the stint with Kim Campbell during her summer job as a
> > PM... :)<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> Hi Ken,
> An Ottawa photographer Ken Ginn, nice lad, but never really allowed
> behind the scenes.
>
> I spent 3 weeks on the road with her trying to capture images for
> Federal Election campaign posters and it was a disaster!  Her moron
> handlers kept thinking I was a media photographer and kept telling me to
> "wait outside!"
>
> The Mounties never got it through their heads I was a special
> photographer and required to always be wherever she was .... that
> doesn't mean I just walked in front and created a pain in the
> ass...."another GD news photographer" .... situation.
>
>  Not really their fault at the beginning, as they were not briefed
> properly until I ran into a senior officer who was an old friend and
> knew me from the "earlier days on the Hill" and quickly had it
> straightened out.  Then the "Horsemen" were great!  Actually opened a
> breathing space so I could shoot easier by "kinda holding the people at
> bay" for a few moments in some situations on the road.  Kinda cool
> having your own body guards to make room. ;-)
>
> As you know, she lost big time in the election and had the Conservative
> party wiped out of Parliament other than two seats.  No there isn't a
> "personal photographer" anymore! :-)
>
> My poster images?  Never shoot a female in colour for this kind of
> thing!  They finally had her shot in B&W in a studio and none of mine
> were used, not to say I didn't have some nice images. But in colour no
> woman wants to look like she did!  One of life's little learning curves.
>
> I might say, the Leica lenses didn't help matters any, as they are so
> sharp and revealing of skin tones and other  .... "wrinkles" .......
> that anytime we screened a new shoot there were, "jeeeeeeesh how come we
> see all these things ?"
>
> Heck I even used a softar filter, (sorry Jim I had to admit it.)  ;-)
> And even that didn't work all that well.  I mean,  "you can't make a
> silk purse out of"  ............ oh never mind. :-)
> ted