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Hi, I'm Bob Meyer.

I'm a photographer.

In fact, this is the first film I ever did.

I just got it back from the lab and I'm pretty anxious to take a look at it.

Well, let's take a look at it.

It's very exciting for a new photographer to look at the results of

shooting. The quality of the color, the background and the action are all very

important.

I decided to start off with some simple nudes where the lighting could be

properly controlled.

I wanted to learn to handle my equipment before I went on more difficult

locations.

There are many things a young photographer has to do before he can

his footage.

The first one, the most important one, is finding the proper model.

I put an ad in some of the art journals and nature camp magazines, and I was

surprised at the number of replies I received.

Besides several hundred girls willing to pose for me, I got invitations to three

or four nudist camps.

And you'll see all the films I took of these girls and at the camp as we go

along.

I was very pleased at the advice I got from the various girls I photographed.

Most of them were experienced models and were very quick to pass on their

experience to me.

There are so many things to remember that I appreciated every little bit of

I could get.

As I took more and more film, I became more confident.

And as I became more familiar with my equipment, I began to relax and enjoy my

work.

I was trying to put into effect everything I had learned in my

course.

Doing lessons by mail has been nervous, but I'm glad to see so far I haven't

made too many mistakes.

It's extremely interesting to watch the footage for the first time.

I'm quite happy that it came out so well.

Wait a minute. How did that happen?

Well, that's something I never studied about.

I wonder what happened to make the camera do that.

I hope I didn't spoil the shots of the nudist camp.

After all that time and trouble, I'd be embarrassed to have to go back and do it

again.

Oh, no, I shot them at the wrong speed.

I knew I forgot to check something.

And they want to run these next Saturday?

I can't tell anybody it's all like this.

Seems to me I remember something in the lesson about number of frames per

second.

I must have forgotten to set it properly.

Four of the same girl. Now, how did I do that?

Oh, I don't understand it. I thought I was doing everything just right.

Well, all I can do is look through the footage and try to salvage some of it.

I'm glad I decided not to show it to my friends first.

Boy, would they have given me the big laugh.

I might just as well relax and make notes so I won't make the same mistakes

again.

All those great shots in the camp foiled.

Now, someday I'll have to redo them.

I know. I'll tell the camp director the lab foiled.

I'll have to write to school. Maybe they'll know.

Oh, no. Here we go again.

I don't seem to have done anything right.

By the law of averages, some should have come out.

Well, at least this one's all right.

There must be something wrong with the camera. I couldn't make this many

mistakes.

I'll take it back to the camera shop and have them check it out.

Now that's a little better.

I guess it's not the camera but me Anyway, those models are beautiful Now

was one of my better days

Just can't figure this whole thing out.

I never saw anything so ridiculous in my life.

But if my teachers saw this, they'd never give me my certificate.

Maybe I can tell them I planned it this way.

Maybe they'll think it's a new form of photography.

Well, how about that?

Not one mistake in 700 feet of film.

Well, that's some kind of a record.

Well, at least there's hope for me.

Now I'll see if I can remember everything and get some good footage.

Okay girls, here we go.

I wonder who's been in here messing this place up.

Anyway, I had a great day of shooting. Just picked up the film, so before I go

on with the other stuff, let's see if I did anything right.

All right, here we go again.

No, not again from one extreme to the other I must have pushed the speed lever

too far over Well, I might as well look at the rest of my other footage

That's a tomb.

I wonder if all new photographers go through this same thing.

I could make a young man old before his time.

I don't understand why it happens.

Maybe when I close up the camera after shooting, some of the buttons get pushed

accidentally.

All I can say, I sure have goofed.

They say live and learn, and I've learned something from all this wasted

I don't know what I'm doing.

All these models and all this work for nothing.

It makes me sick But I bet the real pros had this trouble in the beginning

I guess I better go back to photography school.