Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Ted Grant: Personal photographer to the PM [Off-topic]
From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:56:27 -0600

> My poster images?  Never shoot a female in colour for this kind of
> thing!  They finally had her shot in B&W in a studio and none of mine
> were used, not to say I didn't have some nice images. But in colour no
> woman wants to look like she did!  One of life's little learning curves.
>
> I might say, the Leica lenses didn't help matters any, as they are so
> sharp and revealing of skin tones and other  .... "wrinkles" .......
> that anytime we screened a new shoot there were, "jeeeeeeesh how come we
> see all these things ?"
>
> Heck I even used a softar filter, (sorry Jim I had to admit it.)  ;-)
> And even that didn't work all that well.  I mean,  "you can't make a
> silk purse out of"  ............ oh never mind. :-)
> ted
>

Oh, but Ted, haven't you seen she is leading the older woman/younger man
movement, with her new, YOUNG, squeeze!!

Tim