Re: [Leica] Lying to subjects?

["Ted Bayer" <tedbayer@harbornet.com>]

Hi Jeffrey:

If I have learned anything in 70 decades it is that one is far better
off to just tell the truth.  It always works out better in the end, even
if it means you don't get what you want.

Ted

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Fass" <happy.eyeball@verizon.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 6:38 AM
Subject: [Leica] Lying to subjects?


> Hi to all,
>
> I preface this question by saying that I'm certainly not perfect, and
> "massage" the truth sometimes. I have chinks in my character like
anyone
> else.
>
> At a restaurant last week, I went back into the kitchen to photograph
the
> kitchen help. They were agreeable and posed for me. One of them asked
"are
> you from a magazine?" Without thinking I said yes, and continued.
First
> thought was maybe they're cooperating because they think that - if I
told
> them I was just taking pictures for my PAW (they'd *never* understand
> that...<g>) then things would not go as well. Better to lock it down,
so to
> speak.
>
> What do others do in spontaneous, candid situations?
>
> Many TIA,
>
> Jeffrey F.
>
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