Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]gosh Kyle... you are such a fine photographer.... why do you insist on taking a tiny slice of the psychopathology that's out there, glorifying it... and making it seem cute and harmless... is it only because you can sell it? Steve On Oct 19, 2006, at 5:51 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information