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<blockquote data-quote="Alan" data-source="post: 795309" data-attributes="member: 12333">OK, we have all been given the old &quot;You must have a really good camera&quot; line at one time or another. Well yesterday I got it about three or four times within an hour.We were attending my wife's family reunion. Many of these family members are friends on Facebook and see the many pictures I post there. Well, one at a time I got the &quot;We really like seeing the pictures you post. You must really have a good camera. I should get a better camera so I could take pictures like that.&quot; (insert my biting my tongue here)&nbsp; I admit it. I really wanted to say &quot;Your covered dish was great, you must really have a good stove&quot;. (insert major self control here)So I didn't make any rebuttal comments. And in doing so I didn't get smacked by the better half. (thus the term better half) I did however manage to have a little fun with a couple of them. I started to discuss one of the last pictures I posted and the ISO I used, the shutter speed and f/stop etc. And I did enjoy the &quot;Deer in the Headlight&quot; stares that I got. The truth is they are family members and really just want to tell me they like the photos I take. They just didn't know how to say it. So many time we worry more about the words people use than the content they wanted to convey. The moral... take a complement for what it is and &quot;don't take offence&quot;.&amp;#8203;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alan, post: 795309, member: 12333"] OK, we have all been given the old "You must have a really good camera" line at one time or another. Well yesterday I got it about three or four times within an hour. We were attending my wife's family reunion. Many of these family members are friends on Facebook and see the many pictures I post there. Well, one at a time I got the "We really like seeing the pictures you post. You must really have a good camera. I should get a better camera so I could take pictures like that." (insert my biting my tongue here) I admit it. I really wanted to say "Your covered dish was great, you must really have a good stove". (insert major self control here) So I didn't make any rebuttal comments. And in doing so I didn't get smacked by the better half. (thus the term better half) I did however manage to have a little fun with a couple of them. I started to discuss one of the last pictures I posted and the ISO I used, the shutter speed and f/stop etc. And I did enjoy the "Deer in the Headlight" stares that I got. The truth is they are family members and really just want to tell me they like the photos I take. They just didn't know how to say it. So many time we worry more about the words people use than the content they wanted to convey. The moral... take a complement for what it is and "don't take offence".  [/QUOTE]

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