Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Snappier snaps.....


....think I need to check out Beatrice's advice (courtesy Girl Annual No 8, pub 1960), feeling a bit lack-lustre about the 'snaps' I'm taking at the moment.....maybe I'll try a bit of B&W (something that really scares me, I might even have to read the bloody manual......but there's nothing like fear to spice up life a bit!) But Beatrice obviously knows her stuff, she says.....
"Beware of making freaks of your friends, drainpipes growing out of shoulders and heads level with 'Road blocked' signs should be avoided too. They are an embarrassment to the photographer and, of course, to the model"
.....oh bugger........maybe I should read "Looking for the ideal pet?....Why not keep a BUDGIE" or "Learning about fashion sense" (though it's probably all down to wearing a clean pair of white cotton gloves at all times) instead.

Silly video



Now to brave 'The Kitten Wall of Death", they do circuits....getting ever higher until they fall off walls, furniture, curtains...me.....

4 comments:

Jan said...

Ha! My last camera had broken and I still hadn't read the manual! Sorry, but I really can't get serious about photography, I just don't want anything to do with technical details and stuff.

sleepyduck said...

I dread to think what Beatrice might say about my photographs...

I'm sure the kittens would enjoy having a budgie as a friend...

impoftheyard said...

I am fond of Spike Jones! I do remember the kitten run up the leg trick - hurts like hell.

Take up cooking - I have a very good book that tells you how to choose your servants and how to boil carrots (for an hour in a pot of water...) Is it any wonder that I have memories of flaccid vegetables in childhood? Cooking is very easy if the servants do it...

You'd love my pal's book from the 50s - Dating Without Tears.

chaiselongue said...

The 'snappier snaps' book sounds useful - wish I'd kept my old Girl annuals! And if you get through 'Dating without Tears' to the next stage, I remember reading a wonderful etiquette book by Barbara Cartland which said that the man should be responsible for shutting the bedroom window while the woman set the alarm clock ... or was it the other way round? I never seem to get these gender role right!

 
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