Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina Manley said: Subject: Re: [Leica] Helping Hands >>> Exactly, Ted. You can always answer for me. I also took along my daughter > as a distraction ;-)<<<< Good move Tina taking your daughter!! :-) When I was shooting regularly for magazines and a writer was assigned as a writer-photographer team, I always hoped she'd be a good looking woman, simply because it's a wonderful distraction and made it easy to shoot without the subjects being aware it was happening. ;-) >>> I gave her the Digilux with a softened flash and she took photos and showed > them to the people. They really enjoyed looking at themselves and forgot > about me taking photos in another part of the room. She got some good > photos, too, but very different, of course.<<<<, I did similar things with both my sons taking them to various events, first as hired hands to carry gear, that was a big bore for them. ;-) But eventually with a Leica in hand so they could learn to shoot. Later one of them became a professional with his own business, the other shoots a mean camera when he takes pictures of his boys, wife and other family things. Actually all 4 of my children are very good photographers. And for several years one of the girls had her own sport stock agency. And I believe each of them, as I'm sure with your daughter, it gave them an entirely different perspective of what "dad did!" Or "Mom does." Not that they didn't know I was a photographer, but being on location and how we relate to people, being quietly unobtrusive and the sometime intensity we work under. One of the nicest compliments I receive on occasion from my son Scott when I praise him on a great shoot. He comes back with, "Well who do you think taught me!" :-) Your turn is coming. ;-) ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html