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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

JANUARY WEDNESDAY,

26,

1988.

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

PHOTOGRAPHY

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

CHILDREN

When taking pictures of children snap them in a natural pose-doing something.

"TAND up straight now and look pinced over the lens. With a por al mo." "Put your hands down,tralt attachment you can get as darling, and amilo, I want to get a close an three and a half foot to your good picture to send to Aunt Maubject and get sharp, distinct ple 11/o."

turer hat will show every curl and dimple. By moving a lover on the nawor typo box cameras, howover, you can shoot as close as Alvo feet to your subject without a portrait attachment.

ilaven't you heard these two and Juany similar exprenatoas on the part of parents when they are tak- ing anapaboto of their children? Let's hope you are not mitbered

With a folding camera of focusing Among them for sinlena your child Is quite ant at posing the result will type, the closer the subject is to the bo a rather uninteresting snapshot lens the morn care in required in on. which does not do the child fustice, mallug the distance. Set the point- First of all, as you know, younger on the distanco scale at the num pters are the culoat when they are her of feet between the lons and the perfectly natural. It a lot of fuss is child. If you change your position made to get them to stand last nu, for succeeding pletures, be sure to or an effort is made to get them to change the pointer to the proper dia don certain thing, the chances arotance mark

they will lank too posed in the fin And watch your backgrounds. A ished print.

alco, attractive background adds so There are two types of child plc-much to your pictures, Telephane turos, I might way; just plain record poles, wires, unattractive fences, ga- pictures and the other kind you rages, and what have you, often Rhould strive to got-story-tolling poll an otherwise artistic, fascinat pictures. A little tot landing ing humina fulerest picture. In fact, straight as an arrow with arms stiff any prominent off-sido object in the ened against the sides of the body picture will detract from the inter and staring at the camera in a good eat in what the child is doing.

Iforo's another tip. Try to avold example of a rocard picture, but Roop a picture of that same title having the sun shining directly in rakent winking mud ples, or playing the child's-eyes. for tho..poor little. traffic policeman, and you have a fellow can't help squinting under story-telling picture with real hu- such conditions and neither could you. Lot the sun come from the side. man laterest appeal.

Children's pictures should alwaysThis gives an interesting lighting be taken fairly close up, rarely moro and what professionals call "round. than ten font from the camera. IrinesA."

Follow these "Ups" and you'll get you have an ordinary box camera don't get closer than six or eight roal joy out of your snapakots.

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ARTICLE

Last article in Anthony Weymouth's series If Mr. and Mrs. Smith Suffer from Nerves

Just relax your

fears

HEN I said yester-

day that you would do well to relax, did you wonder exactly what that meant? This is what I had in mind.

Nerves keep you strung up--you sit up tense, you lie down stiff as a poker, your arms and legs are rigid. This, of course, is the result, not the cause, of nerves.

leisure..

make

Try this. Lie down on a sofa or hed. Make yourself es mp us possible, and then get some one to lift an arm or leg. You will notice if it drops back like a dead weight, You will find, at first, that it is quite difcult to make yourself imp enough for this to happen.

or

away

"That's the tree I've always been frightened of in the dark."

neuroses

But there is no reason why you shouldn't neutralise any bad tricks which your nerves have got you Into. And once you have learited

and how to relax ciciently, a habit of it, you will get much less You see, your own judgment tells factor to both compulsion

to avoid and superstition? tired, Mr. Smith, and you will get you that it is ridiculous

pave-

And that It's fear. But I wonder about ever so much more benefit from your walking on the cracks in the

arranging ment, or to fuss

exuel whether you have grasped something ornaments or pictures in an

else--that there is precious little precise manner. Somehow you are unhappy if you difference between the man who is t have an urge of this sort and don't and the man who has got jitters? It You also have a feeling is only a matter of degree. satisfy it.

You, Mr. Smith, funk walking (Note: that is something different from an Iden-see below.) that if you don't give in to this urge there under a ladder, (although I expect Your limb will fall slowly-be- will be trouble. So you do and feel you will deny it),

will But, if you get' nervy, you cause you won't have learned the a fool.

Now what is behind all this com- funk it more, and you will add other frick

of banishing tenseness and

pulsion stuff? Just this. We

are things you funk to your repertoire. you substituting impness. When

You And then your life isn't too funny, have you will know exnelly low all superstitious, Mr. Smith.

nud I. and any one else who is really is it? to relax.

But you mustn't think that it is honest with himself. And we only your arms and legs that matter, all afraid of consequences.

that You must learn to le, su muscles of your neck, for example, are quite imp, and your whole body is slack.

the I shouldn't be surprised result is a bit of a revelation to you, its And you will wontier why never occurred to you before. In Two Minds

the

re

The fellow, who has got an attack of nerves in just a bit more jumpy than the fellow who hasn't. So when he gets the notion that unless he touches the lampposts as he passes them something dreadful will happen will, he just talces care to be on the safe side.

Just Obeys

Like

Burglars

to

BUT what can be done about the compulsion neurosta? The extraordinary thing is that will tell you.

don't see them at work, you only nerves are rather like burglars-you know that results. Equally, if you could And out what is going on you would perhaps be able prevent those results. ND now do you see where

the feelings come in? He Paychology shows what is under- doesn't act as he does because he is a lying the phobia or the what-not, alt-wit and doesn't know he is being and when it has done that, hey quite different. In- presto! we are silly. He knows all right.

But he is allowing himself to obey stead of being afraid, we get a little the promptings coming from his bit of our confidence Lack and look

are emotional, the thing in the face. makes unconscious, which

TTERE are a few more facis about your mind. Do you remember that the phobia forces you to do something you don't want?

Well, that is why a phobia is one kind of compulsion neurosis. Ever heard of that before?

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This compulsion neurosis you-feel-you-want to do things you not reasonings. And so he is rot 1 wouldn't be surprised don't really want to do. Sounds able to take notice-of-these-which-reading-about-how it works hasn't

17 are more intelligent but less frighten- made you despise its power a doesn't rather contradictory,

ing.

I hope so, for that is the first step Either you do or you don't!

If you have ever thought about towards conquering the But lon't really such nonsense us, ut first sight, it seems. Dis- nerves you will see why these under- thing. sociation explains it.

This is what ground impulses can sway you when

Face Your Nerves you are nervy. actually happens.

If you doubt that we are all When you get this form of nerves,

watch the Mr. Smith, you lose, for the time be- superstitious at heart, ing

your normal mental outlook. people who avoid, laddors. Thinic of instead of being able to make up your Fridays, the month of May, the

own colour, green, and, your mind qulekly you vacillate,

Ever heard the expression "He's actions to sitting down thirteen at n

table. In two minds about something or other? Well, this is exactly what happens when you are dissociated.

Instead of one stream of Ideas you get two. And sometimes

you

find it a pretty dimeult job to decide which you will lake. Result

EVER had to walk through

n wood in the dark? Every noise has seemed like some one hasn't it? hiding among the trees, Well, in the daylight you would know that it was only the wind among the Doesn't your own intelligence tell branches.

silly to you plainly that you are

more Nerves are like that-the you shut your eyes to take notice of such things?

They may have been good enough worse they are. The more you know a thousand years ago, when people about them and understand exactly knew nothing of selence, but now how they got such a stranglehold on adays-poolit Yet what about it? you, the less power they will have

Does that make you any happler aver you.

to get up first from

D

them, the

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NOW suppose that one set of there

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