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Do many photographers smoke while shooting? Just laugh at me if this is a ridiculously stupid question. Thanks! Aug 23 06 05:24 am Link Some may. But, I don't personally know any that do. Aug 23 06 05:45 am Link I never smoke when shooting Oh wait just remembered I don't smoke opp's Aug 23 06 06:11 am Link I do not smoke and would not smoke in a studio if I did. And, I would never photograph a model who is a smoker. Aug 23 06 06:21 am Link First it's a bad habit, unless it's for a photographic effect. Smoke has to settle somewhere and after a period of time your lenses/equipment will be coated....Have you ever been in someones house that's a heavy smoker ? I rest me case.... Aug 23 06 06:21 am Link Some people do, some people don't. I don't think it matters either way. My point is, who cares? Aug 23 06 06:25 am Link Not good for the camera. I dont even let people use hairspray around my rig. I have enough problems with dust on my sensor in clean air. Aug 23 06 06:43 am Link For defense of the smokers (of which I am one) Yes, I smoke in my studio. It is well ventilated and I only do this during a shoot if the model, and whomever else is in the studio at the time, are smokers also. Filthy habit... yes. Disgusting... yes. Unhealthy... most definatly. Am I going to quit or make some bullshit attempt at quitting just to please the anti-smoker movement... Not a chance. Do I force my smoke on non-smokers... no way. If someone tells me that my smoke is bothering them, I have no problem finding another place to smoke. If a non-smoker comes into the smoking section of my favorite resteraunt and tells me to stop smoking, what can I say but they are invading my space and can therefore go to hell. Aug 23 06 06:50 am Link I don't but a ridiculous number of my models and their friends do, So I have lots of ashtrays around and make no effort to discourage their smoking in my studio. But it's a big space with lots of air movment so a few cigarettes have little effect on the air quality. Aug 23 06 07:28 am Link Maxim wrote: that would leave out at least half of the world's top models. Aug 23 06 07:38 am Link I don't allow it. In fact, my lease prohibits smoking in the building. Aug 23 06 07:41 am Link Winn Photographics wrote: Someone at another site posted a story about their granny -- Aug 23 06 07:42 am Link Capt Stu Beans wrote: haha, yeh I bet it would. I don't and hate the stink it leaves behind on people and things. I would think it'd coat the cameras too like some of you had mentioned. Aug 23 06 07:44 am Link I am just now recently a non-smoker... but I have worked with photographers who do smoke (not while shooting) and some who do... in fact I'VE smoked during a shoot when we were trying to get some smoke rings and old Hollywood portraits. They came out great, but if it bothers you, ask if they could refrain from smoking until the shoot is over... unfortunately you'll probably only have a 30 minute shoot. So pose perfectly! HA! Aug 23 06 07:46 am Link I don't smoke in the studio but I've had some "smokin" shoots! Aug 23 06 07:51 am Link Winn Photographics wrote: I'll give you the "smoking section of the restaurant" thing, but.. Aug 23 06 09:22 am Link Just crack and some opium. Aug 23 06 09:34 am Link Demarcus Freeman wrote: No actually... As a former resident of California I was quite used to there not being ANY smoking section in resteraunts, bars, etc. which did put all of the smokers right out in front of the door coming in. Bad idea. I will admit that there is always the chance that I could be smoking in a public area that is legal to smoke in but not designated as a smoking section, but I believe i mentioned that I have no problem moving to a diferant location if someone says that it is bothering them. Aug 23 06 10:01 am Link Cybil wrote: I'm a smoker, and most of my work is shot outside, as opposed to in the studio, so it would make sense that I might smoke while shooting. But I find it difficult to get my face in the viewfinder with a smoke hanging off my lip. Aug 23 06 10:13 am Link People still smoke????? Maybe they haven't heard. Aug 23 06 10:17 am Link Digital Basement Studio wrote: Actually they print it on every pack... but maybe we can't read. Aug 23 06 10:22 am Link i think most studio owners wouldnt allow it plus cig smoke sucks. Aug 23 06 10:26 am Link I do. Can you believe people will say stupid stuff like: Oh it makes my hair smell bad, Oh, my clothes will smell. Can you believe how rude some people can be? Aug 23 06 10:29 am Link I pay for the building....I will smoke. If someone doesnt like it....either deal with it, pay the building payment or ask me politely to wait until after the shoot. As for the health concerns and smoking in public....I will quit smoking and parade around the country in defense of non smokers when the bug spray called perfume is banned from public places and when msg and other preservatives are banned from foods. In the mean time....light up. Aug 23 06 10:31 am Link It puts a film on your lens that is hard to get off. Wouldn't recommend it. Plus, it's just unpleasant. Aug 23 06 10:32 am Link missing fingers product wrote: Tobacco smoke is an acquired taste. Aug 23 06 10:36 am Link Amy J Jones Photography wrote: You are supposed to smoke cigarettes. You don't rub them on your lens. Aug 23 06 10:38 am Link Have people not heard the studies that have come from the U of Miami school of medicene? 1. A non smoker would have to sit in a 15x15 ft room for 40 hours a week for 16 years to inhale enough 2nd hand smoke to equal one cigarette. So much for the 2nd hand smoke BS huh? 2. Smokers are less likely to get colds because they are more likely to take deep breaths this expanding thier lungs and keeping out pockets of lung that hold bacteria that develop colds. Tobacco does not cause cancer. The preservative chemicals American tobacco companies coat tobacco in can do so. Rather than ban the cigarettes they need to ban the chemicals. It has worked well and produced better products in Europe Are the same people who fuss anc complain about cigarette smoke getting in thier hair and clothes the same folks who gather in the back yard and stand around during a cookout? Those chemicals are must more dangerous to breathe than cigarettes, but they dont say anything about them do they? OOpps I think I will allow cook outs in my studio just to piss people off Aug 23 06 10:46 am Link And... smoking makes you look cool! Aug 23 06 10:48 am Link Allen Coefield wrote: I read somewhere a rant of a person that said she hates when people smoke at a bus stop and that is so unhealthy. Aug 23 06 10:51 am Link Winn Photographics wrote: Smoking outside the door to a restaurant/business in Cali is illegal. You have to be something like 50 feet away from all main entrances and thoroghfares. Problem is that nobody bothers to enforce or follow anything but the most obvious parts of the law. Aug 23 06 11:19 am Link How in the name of Daguerre can you smoke *while* taking pictures??? Seems like you'd have burn marks all over your wrists and/or the back of your camera. Never mind the fact that it must be hard to frame and focus with a cloud of smoke obscuring your vision. People are amazing. M Aug 23 06 11:21 am Link Allen Coefield wrote: Lol, did you get that right off a Lucky Strike packet? Aug 23 06 11:23 am Link I only light-up after a TFP Aug 23 06 11:24 am Link Lol, did you get that right off a Lucky Strike packet? No...someone on omp told me Aug 23 06 11:25 am Link Demarcus Freeman wrote: And that is one of the reasons I choose to no longer live in Cali. I admit, there are some rude smokers. There are also polite smokers. There are are polite non-smokers and there are rude non-smokers. The rude non-smoker is the one I have little sympathy for. The ones that go out of their way to approach a smoker smoking in an area it is legal to smoke in and then bitch about the smoke. I didn't ask them to join me and they were not there when I lit up. They made the choice to approach a smoker (and I'm not referring to me standing in the doorway of the entrance to a public building) and then complain. Aug 23 06 11:36 am Link And if the model in my avitar can smoke during the shoot, damn it, so can I. Aug 23 06 11:39 am Link Fotticelli wrote: *raises hand* That would be me. Aug 23 06 11:41 am Link Allen Coefield wrote: You're right. There are alot of bitter self-centered assholes out there who are more interested in their own rights than what they could do to improve things for their fellow man. Furthermore, we should all hold off on doing anything polite and/or productive until everyone else is, because personal responsibilty and morality don't apply to the individual unless the world around us is perfect. Aug 23 06 11:49 am Link Allen Coefield wrote: Ah good. Then it *must* be true. Aug 23 06 11:52 am Link |