Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To beat a deadhorse... http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/image-54896.html 1/4 second, 400 iso, f 2.8 - shot at about 12" away hand held...with a DSLR...And it didn't even wake Dr. Blacktape up...(Of course the poor old thing is stone deaf, but we'll overlook that..;-)) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Sonny Carter Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 2:50 PM To: Ted Grant Subject: [Leica] shot not possible without potted palms Ted, There was a guy in New Orleans who always seemed to be at every important function, and he would rush in and jump into every grip-and-grin or necktie line-up shot. He made the photogs at the Times Picayune Newspaper furious, but they couldn't really tell him to get out of the picture. Finally, they took the problem to the retoucher in the REAL Photo Shop. He gingerly started placing a potted palm in the spot where the eager publicity hound stood. Not once, but for many shots thereafter. The guy finally got the message and stopped rushing the group shots. Sonny http://www.sonc.com Saturday, October 25, 2003, 9:37:25 AM, you wrote: TG> B. D. Colen said: >> Better a potted palm than a "photo dork." And Ted, you are the >> prototypical potted palm!:-) <<<< TG> Hi B.D., TG> Interesting you should say that about potted palms. :-) Some years TG> ago I had a similar assignment and tried to keep out of sight by TG> standing almost behind a potted palm thinking it would help make me TG> unobtrusive. As it turned out I was making so many of the patrons TG> nervous as they thought I was some kind of security snoop. So the TG> owner asked me to stand out where I could be seen. :-) TG> Maybe some of the patrons were "bad guys" sos' to speak and they TG> wanted to se whch way the camera was being pointed. ;-) TG> ted TG> -- TG> To unsubscribe, see TG> 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