November 8, 2006
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Had a last minute call for a sitting outdoors…and its raining out?!
What to do? What to do? Oh well, its time to pull out the canvas backdrop and light the lights!
Three adults and three kids all at 9:15AM and they were not to happy to see me or to have their photos taken so early in the morning, but that’s what Mom wanted and she had to get these now or never. Grandma lives out of State, her oldest son needed to drive back to Reno with her Grandchild afterwards, and this was the only moment they were all together before any big holiday hit. So here I am with 5 out of six people who could care less about smiling in the morning for photos.
Thank goodness for my 15 years as a professional clown, magician and stand up comedian. It took me just a few moments to get rolling, then even the 2 year old was mugging for the camera and smiling.
You have to be on, ready to fire off your camera very quickly with little ones and even some adults. Grandma looked like she didn’t want to be there at all. I was speaking to her about pictures. I asked her if she was like me? If she didn’t like her photo taken. Yep, she was the same and we both laughed, except I was firing off three frames a second to capture her! HA! HA! GOTCHA! The same with the kids and the 22 year old son, I had to think fast and tell some type of joke. Hmmm. I got it.. FART JOKES! I’m sorry folks, but these are hard times and I needed to pull a rabbit out of a hat and the fart jokes did it!
I shot for an hour, had 73 exposers taken and 32 came out well with all good expressions. I had them all retouched and ready for the web by noon for her to view using David Jays “Show It” slide show software. The response was somewhat like this…”Oh my God, these are all beautiful, you even got my Mother to smile, she never smiles!” My response was… Thank you..Thank You very much…
Here are a few images from this mornings shoot.
Comments (8)
Randy, you’re a magician, a comic, a clown, a photographer, and the owner of Tiger Woods’ limousine…….modern day renaissance man.
Kenny made a good point. Sometimes I don’t know how to reply to your comments, they’re always over the top! Great images here! ~ Dawn
thank you for the point i should look into that.. and thanks for the lighting point.. you be surpised that I only use a on camera flash gun hehe
Great shots! it looks as if you convinced them to bring the smiles out
Is that the BIG sister on her LITTLE sister’s back!!!!???
seriously…I was worried when I saw the first image..was he sleep standing?
While reading your dilemma I was thnking this is going to be a lesson on how to recover from a disaster!:goodjob: …. Randy you have the funny bone magic! :p You did a marvelous job who would have known that you had that much to deal with? 
Those turned out great!!! You really did pull a rabbit out of a hat! :goodjob:
:wave:
K
Thanks for the sweet comment on the Banquet post!!! :love: I just pray that they were able to really bring in some serious funds for the next year’s operations…
Talk to you soon I am sure!
K
Great shots! My favorite of course is the last…the post processing couldn’t have been better for that image!
the image of the big sister on the little sister’s back is PRICELESS! Wow that is just so cool! Great idea!