{"id":109,"date":"2006-01-27T19:13:38","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T23:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/01\/27\/the-photogrpher\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T01:02:57","slug":"the-photogrpher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/01\/27\/the-photogrpher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Woman photographer at TeaLuxe – wide shot.<\/p>\n

“>I saw the top of the laptop and knowing that the table tops are made of copper, I wondered if the laptop was simply reflecting that. Not so, the laptop is itself copper colored. I was taken with the panoply of color. I asked to take a picture. She asked about publication. I gave her my blog card and she agreed. In fact, what she said about print rights sounded generous. She is herself a photographer. So I hope she will advise me on technique. With a simple point and shoot camera, about the only thing you have to remember is that you are interacting with the camera’s program. Mostly I shoot action. People doing stuff. What they are doing is more important that the settings. But in this case I probably should have [and she would have tolerated ] taken time to experiment with settings.<\/font><\/p>\n

The thing I need most help with is the “people” parts. How do you approach people as subjects. More importantly, how do sell stuff? At age 58, I really could use a marketable skill. Despite 15 years at Harvard, I have about 2 years worth of retirement benefits.<\/font><\/p>\n

One lesson I’ve alreadly learned:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"Woman<\/p>\n

I should have taken this shot instead of cropping it out of the other. I’m old. I’m afraid I may be too old to flirt with dignity. [Flirtation is by nature ambiguous.] But I am quite single if that helps any.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woman photographer at TeaLuxe – wide shot. “>I saw the top of the laptop and knowing that the table tops are made of copper, I wondered if the laptop was simply reflecting that. Not so, the laptop is itself copper colored. I was taken with the panoply of color. I asked to take a picture. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}