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Subject: [Leica] HOW THE EXHIB. POSTER SHOT HAPPENED! :-)
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:49:45 -0800
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KISS - it never fails... IF YOU HAVE THE EYES.

Congrats on the exhibition!

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:42 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Crew,
> I have received a few posts asking how did I set up this shot for the
> poster?
>
> It's not set-up! It caught my eye on the first day I was shooting medical
> students in "The GROSS lab." It's a big lab with a bunch of cadavers in
> body bags and the students & instructors play with these .... "dead folks."
>
> The skeleton hanging there and my first re-action was to "hang a Leica M"
> around it's neck and shoot it just for the hell of it as a "funny" picture.
> However some university people don't have any sense of humour! And I'd
> probably have been thrown out. :-(
>
> As I walked about shooting various things the skeleton kept catching my
> eye and I figured sooner or later I'll see something ?
>
> I saw an angle and I thought the skeleton was smiling! And in the
> background students were out of focus. My thought?  "COOL! CLICK!" :-) It
> was just one of several hundred frames of the day. When the art gallery
> people wanted a shot for a poster to promote the exhibition, I knew just
> what to use. :-)
>
> Nobody complained, everybody thinks it's a neat photo and it will attract
> a great number of viewers to the gallery.
>
> It's like.... "What you see, is what you get!" :-)
>
> Thank you for all the kind comments.
>
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
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// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


In reply to: Message from grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com) ([Leica] ART GALLERY POSTER FOR EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT! you wont believe it! :-))
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca) ([Leica] HOW THE EXHIB. POSTER SHOT HAPPENED! :-))