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1 12 Dally Mcbrcsten . Monday, April 8. 1CC3 A . ' IS "3 '3:" L, i ! a Q ru The nild-cssgred CM fcu;s;j eshae! centra, two CsSca, fcr sets cf fc::rk3, 1G to S3 roils cffUi tnd tiia tlj Coil's tlohnaaa la m crdinsjy put per. D'i ft largest photography manpower fcrco la No- a. The Fixture Mas, events photography service, employs thcut S3 photographers in Lincoln, Kearney, Grsnd Island and Omaha, lichn&sa said. Tha com pany also has two cr three "picture women." Owner Bob Olsen (whose portrait appears in the ricturo I!; a logo crr.t kissed on every yellow shirt), bought a Ccding campus pho tography service H years ejo. lie ar.d Ids employees hsve been shooting end selling party pictures ever sir.ee. In an averse week, CIsen said, Picture Man photographers will photograph about 12 events. Most cf Ms photographers' time is spent shooting college parties, Olson said. Picture men also photograph proms, gradua tions, reunions end mors than ICO weddings each year. ' Olson says that "personality is 75 to 0 percent cf a picture nuu'sjsh." "You need someone who can dm into a strange group and hsve fan with then," he As a picture man, Mohrrsan dives into strange groups all over the state. His jch has taken Ma to places like Kearney, Tecumseh At one wild party it a Holideiae in York he was almost thrown into a pool camera and all. At the same party Ms camera was tshen, but it was returned about a half hour later. Other picture men have been less lucky with their equipment One picture man ran over his camera case, crashing an expensive company camera and flash. Another had a Ml beer poured into the open back cf Ids camera as he was reloading his film. Working as a picture man has given Moh rraan, a former high school yearbook photo grapher, a chance to get paid for something - : , -,f v; -C I ft i I t ' , , ' " v i---"- r- I m i a, X" el. 4- r u ( - he likes to do. Besides Ids bctter-thsn. minimum we siliy, there are fringe benef its to beins a plotnre ssaa, J&tasa siid. He's alloxod to dance and even drink on the Job. "As lonj you don't cvt?ir.di-.!3 so thit it tSeets your job it's OX," ifohrmsa said. He's even ccepted scrr.e dcte cTcrs he his received as a picture na Kcr.a cf them turned out 01, he said. Dut being a picture man irn't all dates and beer. In a single evening, a picture man might work four to six hours with no break and no dinner hour, Olson said. Hearing "Picture Man!" yelled over and over gets old pier two or three hours, Mohrman said. "Sometimes they start grs.t.tlngyour jacket. You turn and shoot in a circle you don't even stop shootl,.3,n he said. ' He also occasionally h&s to deal with two or three pkturs hi peccle who v photographed with literally everyone else at the party. Other times, he has to almost beg to get people to pesa far h'm. "You can tell when they'ra cn a first data' At most parties hi sheets four or five rolls effiln In m hinr, (HI to 129 pictures). He has ahot as many as S3 rolls in a ainl even ing, (1,183 firaraes). During the riht he con stantly reloads his camera and. replasea bat teries. He also must try to make sure that all , cf the camera asstaents are always correct. He cams a psy perccatags based cn the number of the reseilable pictures he takes. Host cf the pictures Llohrman slioc4s are the traditions! hug shots. His least favorite pictures are tsbSs and couple poses at formd dinners. Mohrman prefers less traditional shots. 1 "Ve black cut with a naglc marker any thing cheese that isiht embarrass the per son (before returnteg the procij), but we get a laugh cut cf it," he said. f-.vcrl3 parties are costuir.e parties where people ate really having fcn, he ; sSd. Ee likes island r cities o.d other inter ti.tirg party sites where there are preps ha Obcn also prefers to sheet parties with interesting themes. Recently, Olson add, col- laxS'Sf psrtya without themes. "OrsatMty has fallen cf?," he ssld. A let of Some of his fsvc :s hsve been a In rishraan's ?M yesrs as picture man, he. hrs seen a let cf druiiks. Tve even got pictures of them bsfeg their coskifj over the aide cf a rail at river boat." 1111 Room': questions tradii " The demanding problem of one per ' . son portraying multiple roles vrcs ... , , . , handled w;th apparent e;;se throyh- Not a room, tut the people withix out th3 opening-night performance. That's what "The Dining Room, ciav Basia ciothing was cleverly adorned rentiy playing at the Temple Theatre, is dth a few accessorie8 to indicate the all about i.r .. 1 -r-r- " z role being played. Although the resourceful use of sup plementary clothing helped the overall effect cf "Dining Eocm," ample acting Written by Ait Gurney and directed skill was the backbone of the produc er Paul Bames. the la? is set within tier w w m v the genteel luxury cf a classical femily dining room. Six actors stage the per formance, which has roles ranging feo a senile grandmother to a naughty lit tle bey who peeks at the maid while she bathes. student who just discovered Ms mother is having an afMr as comfineingly as he portrays Jim, a mature mm in his late 60s, Overall, the actors seemed to have an easier time portraying younger characters than elder, A. perfect illus tration cf this was Todd Pickering's version of 'a grandfather in Act I. Although the part obviously called far an elderly nasi cf about SO, Pickering T, ' V. c? al values Especially worthy of praise is Scott Diestabier, who, through the course cf the perforrasnce, handled each role with tremendous skill. Dlentsbler. for . can ciily be corbel t.y t!.e p.rc:.:c3 cf actors from tro sprxste visttc3 on stage at once. IIoT;evcr, sfler becom ing accustomed to the two scenes simultaneously taking place the play is enhanced. . Use of theaterin-the-round works eSectlvely in "Dining Eoom." Becassa the audience totally surrounds tha act ing area and forms a type of "wall" around the set, the plav seems to be used gestures and spoke in a much scfpsnded in a type of void. This is eiampie, conveyed the naive sensitrv m f"i 1 mere rapid fashion than would befit a nian cfsuch snelderly t.ga, Yb ereas th e actual plsy relies hes? ily upon the cvarlapping cf scenes fsr cSect, this foster also poses a dissd- esptclsUy effective bscsse the udi cace cm see the action cf the play not crdy Is restricted to the theater, but to their cwa Mm cs well , lasnants cf the" criinsJ prcsce-ri-s firch teens drdgn, fsr which the play was origlnslly written, were still in evidence. 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