Don't complain, Boris. Over here, the moms pull out their celphone and call the cops to complain about he pedophile taking pictures of they kids.
The way to handle your situation is to take some posed shots, then when they get bored take the candids you wanted. You can always come back with the posed shots and give them to the moms. After a while they will welcome you, and when they want a photo of little Suzy all dressed up they may offer to pay you a little something. Back long before any older man with a camera became a pervert thanks to those wonderful talking heads on TV it worked for me. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:44 PM Subject: Re: Actually on-topic: writers ain't rich > Hi! > > drn> Similarly, I know snap-shooters who think it's really neat that I > drn> can make the photos I do, but listening to them talk I get a > drn> distinct impression that they don't think they're *"allowed"* to > drn> _try_ to actually _compose_ a photo, because that, you see, would > drn> be *art*, and they're "ordinary people", not Artists. > > Here's a story. Well, we did drive to Beer Sheva last weekend. Among > other things I've taken my FA 50/1.7 with me to shoot some kids. So > I've been shooting. One moment I've noticed kids were giving a certain > dog something to drink. Hopefully the shot I managed would come out > reasonable. Anyway, the same moment I've tried pointing my camera at > the kids, their moms asked the kids to pose. You know - "look at this > young man with the camera, will you, dear ...". They've ruined the > shot, naturally. Though they've admitted I am the first one who takes > shots of their kids and who does not ask them to pose, rather > opposite... > > IMHO, photography suffers seriously because only very specific kind of > photography is seen by the general average public. That would be even > photography (be sure to invite for a wedding a good photographer) and > probably some fashion photography. I doubt that it ever occurs to an > average person that, say, some amazing nature photos are actually done > by people like themselves. > > To be honest with you, before last half a year I haven't gone to > any photography exhibition. Nor was I interested in any. Admittedly I > am not very far from the above average general public... > > But then again, this is MHO. > > --- > Boris Liberman > www.geocities.com/dunno57 > www.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=38625 >
