Anybody else suffer from RWAC or FWAC?

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herbkell@shaw.c

Peter Kelly
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RWAC - Relative with a camere

FWAC - Friend with a camera

Right now I would love to be spending time playing with my new Leica goodies but my family has me tied up in various family projects as follows

Endless Grad pic opportunities for a nephew

Two local landscape images for a Charity auction at the Golf club

Official photog!!! at the sister in laws 50th birthday bash

Any other sorrowful stories?

Do fellow RFF'ers also suffer from these maladies?
 
Oh yeah, once you get the moniker of "the photographer in the family" you're doomed. Just remember "every picture tells a story, don't it?"

todd
 
Not family, but a neighbor's wedding last weekend. Ugh 330pm to 1030pm and 550+ photos later I was beat.

It paid for my new M mount 50 summicron though. So I'm happy.

-Mitch
 
Well, one thing to do is show up with a Speed Graphic and a handfull of film holders. At least then you can a) usually get some rather interesting images b) honestly say "Sorry, I'm out of film" after a dozen shots & c) scare the wits out of those who have never seen a real camera ... :angel:

(Just for the record, I shot a large family reunion with my Speed and it actually worked quite well. With the wide angle 127/4,7 I was able to get an image that actually had everyone in it and, thanks to the glorious 4x5 neg, everyone was recognizable even on a 5x7 print 🙂 )

William
 
I feel for you Peter.

The problem with being the "offical photographer" at family functions is that you tend to be absent from the event in more ways than one. First, it's tougher to relax and down a few cool ones and generally have a good time when you have to keep your wits about you for cute "photo ops"; second, you are never seen in any photos because you're the poor sod behind the camera. Thus, in a sense, and for historical/pictorial purposes, you aren't there at all.

Ron
 
I was thrilled to take photos at my brother's wedding. I'm a bad street photographer because I'm not all that interested in people I don't know. I really enjoyed being able to take tons of people photos of people I know and love.

It is true, though. I'm not in most of the photos.

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Melanie, what you say there is so true for the vast majority of us... but the real key is
It is true, though. I'm not in most of the photos.
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as that is what really drives us. If we are behind the camera we do not need to worry about being in front of it. If that is the case, then we are able to control, to at least some extent, what s published... At least that's how it seems to me...

William
 
I once gave my Leica CL to someone to take a group photo with, and walked over to the group before I remembered it wasn't something most people can do themselves. I caught it as he was going through the rest of the cameras people had given him to shoot with, ran over, metered, exposed, and focused, and ran back. I told him he just needed to make sure the group was in the outside frame, and push the button.

And that's how I ended up in a shot taken with one of my rangefinders.

It never happens!

Unfortunately, I suffer the same problem.
 
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