On 6/11/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or lack of it.... > At our dog show today, a lady asked if I would take a couple of head shots > of her Doberman for her. > Of course, I said yes. > She didn't want anything fancy, just something to show off the dogs > conformation, and she certainly wasn't looking for a "pro portrait" > I thought it might be nice if I could do something in controlled light, so > asked the show photographer if I could plug into her lights for a moment to > do the shoot. > > In my day, this would be a no brainer. I'd be plugged in and shooting, > probably with the photographer helping out. > Nowadays, it seems, no one helps each other out. The little tweeb looked at > me like as if I had crawled out from under a rock and told me no, if the > lady wanted a portrait, she would do it and charge accordingly. > > It would have cost her nothing to help, and she had nothing to gain by > refusing. > > The world is changing, but I don't think for the better. > > William Robb
I hope Dave Brooks plugs into this thread, as he's had some "interesting" run-ins with the "official photogs" of the show-jumping circuit his daughter's in. They sound much like your tweeb, Bill. I've read all the responses to this post to date, and as a Libran, I can see both sides of the coin. I don't agree with both sides, but I can see them. There's such a thing as courtesy, and tweeb doesn't have it. This "you're taking money out of my pocket" thing is a pile of crap; you weren't. What it really comes down to is that she wanted to let you know that she was the "offical photographer", and that she therefore had some power that you didn't, and she wanted you to know it. I can think of lots of cliches that apply here. I know I'm hacking them up, but one that applies is the one that goes something like: "watch who you step on on the way up; you'll likely meet them on your way down," and of course, "what comes around goes around" - which works both ways, in her case. Her bad karma will come back to haunt her some day... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
