Re: [Leica] re: most important person at a wedding?

["Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net>]

Ted;
While I can't say I shlepped 4x5 wedding gear, I did do advertising 
portraits, 120 with strobe-light, for 10 years. All on location. After
thousands of portraits it was an education for life.
Happy Holidays and a great New Year,
S. Dimitrov

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>From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] re: most important person at a wedding?
>Date: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 5:09 PM
>

> Hi Other Ted, ;-)
>>>Brings me back 50 years ago when I did those "misery days" of shooting -
> sometimes > two in one day.  And three or four on some weekends.  Holding
> the 4X5 Linhof in one
>> hand, the huge strobe in the other, a ton of battery on one shoulder and a
> wallet of sheet > film holders over the other.<<<
>
> Well my friend it's a form of photography we both experienced many times
> compared to some of these young guys around here. :-)
>
> And like you, I hated shooting the damn things as they took all day
> Saturday,  I'd  shoot a Roman Catholic one in the morning and a Protestant
> in the afternoon.  My real interest during fall wedding season was to be
> shooting the pro football teams so I hated weddings even more so that time
> of the year. :-)
>
> We used those big Multiblitz III wet cell power packs that weighed more than
> a case of beer and I was always reaching up high with the strobe gun to get
> away from shadows on the wall behind, but weighed down on the off side with
> the strobe and a Speed Graphic or a Crown Graphic on the other.
>
> We used film magazines with 12 sheets and the leather bag on the side where
> you slid the exposed sheet out into the bag and flipped it to the back of
> the set and when you finished the 12 you put the slide in and changed the
> magazine.
>
> A few times I put 24 exposures on one mag! Need I say more about the deep do
> doo later? ;-)
>
>>>> But looking back, it was a good learning experience. <<<
>
> It was very much so, despite at the time we didn't appreciate it nor what
> lay before us in the ensuing years. Which in reality still weren't so bad
> either, at least we made it this far with wonderful photo memories along the
> way.
>
> And to you my not so far away friend, lets see if we can't get a hand shake
> in during this New Year before us, certainly as soon as we get nice warm
> comfort weather to do it. Did you have any thought of coming to Victoria for
> the LHSA Spring shoot? Should be a fun thing, as I understand the folks who
> attend are "picture takers." ;-)
>
> The very best for the New Year may it be Healthy and Happy through out the
> 12 months. All the best to you and family.
>
> kindest regards,
> ted
>
>
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