Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rick Dykstra jotted down the following: > Smiling? Your job is to take 'mum friendly' portraits of a few hundred > children in a day. Most are natural smilers. Others haven't got a > clue. How do you get a nice, natural smile from the children in the > latter category? "Yo, kid! You just won $20 worth of candy and tickets to the next Pokemon movie." <click> "Nah, just kidding. NEEEEXT!!" > Sportsground Terrorist Gangs? Another part of your job (you accepted > the mission!) is to take team shots, often of the under 9, 10 and 11 > teams (hence the subtitle). How do you get their cooperation for the > three to five minutes it takes to line 'em up and take three > crowd-pleasing shots? You must also control the coach, manager and 20 > odd parents (assistants!). Using R8, 50' cron and remote release. Border collies are great for this kind of thing. > Difficult Individuals? There's one child in a hundred (usually a boy > but not always) who's intent on being a problem. A couple of cattleprods. They start to get unruly, you zap the little critters. > I am developing some techniques of my own, but I'd appreciate your > suggestions, even those that I'd only be able to use in 'wishful > thinking' mode. Happy to oblige! M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | What boots up must come down. email: howard.390@osu.edu | www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------