Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like your idea. Thanks, JDF - ----- Original Message ----- From: "SonC (Sonny Carter)" <sonc@sonc.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Lying to subjects? > I carry a business card with http://www.sonc.com on it in big > letters. I tell people who ask that I expect it will be there, but I > am not promising. > > Funny, sometimes I have shot pix of people, and the shots didn't make > the website, and then a few weeks later, I run across them doing > something interesting again, and I get out the camera and start > shooting. This time the person is more relaxed, because they know me, > and possibly have seen my work on the website. He is now my friend > and trusts me. > > I also sometimes take a pile of 5x7 lasercolor prints of some of my > work and hand them to people if they want some credential. > > http://www.sonc.com/portfolio.jpg > > Kyle Cassidy uses postcards with some of his shots, and finds them > effective. > > I say be truthful if at all possible. > > > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeffrey Fass" <happy.eyeball@verizon.net> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 8:38 AM > Subject: [Leica] Lying to subjects? > > > > Hi to all, > > > > I preface this question by saying that I'm certainly not perfect, > and > > "massage" the truth sometimes. I have chinks in my character like > anyone > > else. > > > > At a restaurant last week, I went back into the kitchen to > photograph the > > kitchen help. They were agreeable and posed for me. One of them > asked "are > > you from a magazine?" Without thinking I said yes, and continued. > First > > thought was maybe they're cooperating because they think that - if I > told > > them I was just taking pictures for my PAW (they'd *never* > understand > > that...<g>) then things would not go as well. Better to lock it > down, so to > > speak. > > > > What do others do in spontaneous, candid situations? > > > > Many TIA, > > > > Jeffrey F. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html