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Now, one reason I like using toy cameras is that I feel that if I have a professional
large camera and I'm shooting an event or I'm going out doing my own personal work,
I think sometimes seeing that type of camera in your face really intimidates people and
if you're trying to get a canned look or a look where someone is really talking to you
or connecting with you, sometimes there's something about using this little tiny camera
that seems to work on a sociological level for me and it's sort of important and this
was a friend who I was having a hard time photographing one day. She wanted some pictures
for her parents and she wanted it to be fun but she was you know she was nervous and once
I started taking out the toy camera, she starts playing around. She's having fun. And I think
this image is just you know nice image. We're at an abandoned hotel and actually I think
the image worked with the Holga rather with a professional camera. This is another image
that I was having a hard time photographing this was with some twins that I'd seen on
the street and you know they really weren't buying my stick about trusting me and I just
wanted to photograph them. They thought I was after something but when I took out the
toy camera, they started laughing at it and I think that image just really I got it and
that's another reason why I really like using toy cameras.