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Sometimes you can’t sit back and wait for people to act, you have to be proactive and either ask them where the party is and seek the invitation or invite youself by asking when and where. If those friends are too petty to be bother with you, then keep the faith and continue ton ber outgoing and gather new friends that wiill include you and take pictures with you.

its more or less sucky caus i ask and like approach them about it, and even if its the day before, they say they ahve no clue. it just happens to be that they’re there.

and after all as of 1st jan. i will be charging for the pics so thats not the part im worried about anymore.

and then even my GF is like “i cant go to the movies im gorunded” and its thursday evening and then on friday night she gets on msn and is like “WOW THE MOVIE WAS AWESOME” and well idk. i know i need to dump her, but its kinda shes not the only one who does that. if you get off grounded last minute, wouldnt ur boyfriend be the first to let know?

yeah well, i think you should work to be in front of the cam more. most likely you got the role people tend to forget and feel distance to. try to mix up with people, show them that you are a part of the group.

turn that lens. and if it feels strange to ask someone else to take a pic of you, just take it yourself with other people. or hand it over as soon as you have taken a pic of some other people. put your hand over someones shoulder and have them take a pic and then say “this one is for free”, and smile.

sounds like you have to be more outgoing and less of a nice kid. if your gf pops up at msn and says something like that, why don´t you ask her why she didn´t invite you?

her answer was: i found out half an hour before the movie and thought it was too late for you.

yes and no. the fiddle-fart-around stuff i dont want money for. but stuff like cross country goes to the papers, yearbook and parents. for money. so for that i cant complain . graduation was a just-for-fun thing too.

well, clearify that she can always ask you, and then it´s up to you to make a choice if you´d like to join or not.

easy to do: its the same if i have my camera with me or not. i still end up going home jus shy of everything. and even if i bother people about the parties. doesnt matter if i have the camera with me… jus that i tend to end up on more pictures if i put it on a tripod or balcony with the timer.

true pretty much.

its just almost directly related to photogrpahy, caus i got a camera everywhere i go. and when i take pictures i get asked for them. but i rarely hear stuff like “how are you” and so on.

xD well i enjoy it to the fullest and i have friends in the states (i dont live inside the USA) that are different so ill have to bear till summer and then im back in the states.

thanks though. i hear other photographers have the same issues, and i also figured how to cope: teach others about what you are doin. so now i teach free classes on how to use canon 350/400D’s, and 20,30,40D’s.