A Little Guilty Humor...

So here it is............ as best as I can remember, or at least as it was told to me by one of my Photographer buddies, a Little Story about a Pain- in- the- Ass- Art Director who got a little too involved in the shoot!

So this Art Director/Buyer, a notorious, low budget, line- item- please, Estimate Slayer comes to a friends studio to oversee a tabletop setup for a company Ad. She wants every angle under the sun shot of this set, just in case! The large format Polaroids are flying and the camera stand is going higher and higher to get yet another angle.......... "Could we shoot one here too? " "How about here?" "No....... that's not it........much higher! ". So, at some point, this not-too-petite gal decides that she's going to take matters into her own hands and position the camera herself. She climbs the 12 ft ladder to get a better look at the set from camera position and gets the bright idea to lean out and try to see the image on the Ground Glass. A millisecond later she was diving head first onto the set, crashing thru the Formica covered 4x6 plywood, bouncing once and back again for the final ride to the floor. No screams, no yelps. One second shes climbing the ladder, the next shes a Human Wrecking Ball falling from the ceiling! For a few unbearably long seconds............silence! No one can speak, no one knows what to say. After a few moments the Photographer and his assistant spring into action, reaching down to offer any help and assess the severity of the situation. With no words and no explanation, the Canon Ball Art Director rises to her feet, brushes herself off and without speaking a word, starts walking toward the front door of the studio. Following close behind, my friend the Commercial Photographer continues to inquire about her injuries and state of mind, the standard questions when you witness someone ' Bust Ass ' so badly. No answer, Just nods and mumbling as she walks out the door.

My friend says that he nearly pushed out a hemorrhoid trying to stop himself from laughing.

This was a true story...

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