Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Instead of working on albums - which I'm so behind on, I spent half the day looking online at muzzle loaders. Thanks for adding to my slacker time Kyle. Love the dog photos, great expressions. Let me know if you'll ever volunteer(or pay you in snack packs) to help me with a wedding, I'd love to see the final images after that one. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Cassidy" Subject: [Leica] Dog wrangling - guns, kids, and saying "cheese" > 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