Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Raphael and Cathy with their two kids and two dogs provided a considerable challenge. I was Without Assistant on this one so had to undertake not only the photo snappin' but all the "hey doggie! look over here!" that phil normally takes care of. Dogs want to help, but they're sure you want to photograph their hind ends. Kids just don't care. Ultimately the only direction that seems to work is "mom and dad, you just keep looking at me, I'll wait for the kids and the dogs." Because of that I ended up taking more than twice the number of photos that i usually do and, of course, the ones that successfully capture faces and expressions for some reason leave the rules of good composition in the dust. you get one or the other, it seems. Raphael and his Armalite AR-10: "I'm not into hunting, I love animals, I could never shoot one. I could never shoot a person either, but I just love guns." http://www.armedamerica.org/paul4/rafael4.jpg http://www.armedamerica.org/paul4/rafael1.JPG http://www.armedamerica.org/paul4/rafael3.JPG David and Noel and their three daughters were much easier. Crystal: "I shot my third deer this year -- with a muzzle loader. One shot, she took maybe half a step. She was dead before she hit the ground": http://www.armedamerica.org/paul4/carlisle-pa.JPG And one unrelated normal type wedding photo for those of you who are freaked out by all this: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/kim1.jpg