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Subject: [Leica] My son taking pictures when he was 4 years old with his first camera
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 08:17:53 -0400
References: <C8D44D4B.3A7FE%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

the last one is interesting to people who don't know the story

leaves you wondering what's in his head

ric


On Oct 8, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:

> When my son, who is now 13 years old, was four years old, I got him his
> first real camera. He had been shooting with Fuji Quicksnap single use
> cameras for about a year before that and had gotten quite good. He used so
> many, it was getting too expensive! Regular 35mm film was much cheaper than
> the Quicksnaps, so I got him a Canon Sure Shot Owl for his fourth birthday.
> The photos in the link below were taken by me soon after he got the camera.
> We were taking pictures of each other, he with his Canon Owl, me with a
> Hasselblad.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/mack-camera
> 
> He shoots with a Nikon D70 now, which he uses to photograph scenes he 
> builds
> with Lego bricks. He's experimenting with making stop-motion animations 
> with
> the photos. There's a link to his stuff on youtube on the webpage linked
> above. His stuff is REALLY good for a kid his age, and he taught himself to
> do the animation stuff. I have no clue how to do that. I just taught him to
> use the manual camera and how to process the RAW files in Photoshop!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chris Crawford
> Fine Art Photography
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> 
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