Still in the shop

Well, I can't say I am surprised that Canon still doesn't have my camera back. I sent it in for service under the promise that I would get it back in about 5-6 working days. I wasn't aware at the time that these guys only work 2 days a week. I have my fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Jeff
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Passport photos

It is that time again. I need to renew my passport. I decided that this year I am going to take my own photo. I am not sure if that is going to fly with the government, but I'll try it and see what happens. What is the worst that can happen, they reject it, and I have to pay $12 to someone else do it. I don't think I'll be needing it until January '09, when I have the PPOC Alberta convention in Mexico.

Jeff

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My Baby!!

Well, I packed up the Mark III and shipped it in for the mirror assembly fix the other day. I am missing my camera already. I have 2 other DSLR bodies, but they are not the same as the Mark III. I should have it back by this Thursday, since I am a CPS member and they did promise me a 5 day turnaround. It figures though. As soon as it is gone, I have an urge to shoot all kinds of things that I didn't before. Typical 'don't know what you got till it's gone' mentality. Oh well, I can just keep a candle in the window until she's home.

Jeff
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recap

Ok, I promised that I would post a recap of the pst several days for those of you who are interested. So I spent last weekend shooting a the Cheerleeder competittion in Athabasca. All of the hotels in town were booked, but I stayed a the loveliest B&B. It is owned by a local artist who uses it as a gallery and studio. I would highly reccommend it to anyone. I believe that name of the place was the Red Roof Gallery. I was also fortunate enought to shoot with Annette and James who had a lovely baby girl not so long ago, here is a shot of her. I wish them all the best. Rowen is a beautiful girl and has a really nice temperment.

I think I hear my daughter upstairs, sounds like she is sick. Gotta run.

Jeff

Posting on the blog

I have been busy for the last week shooting families, 2 separate cheerleading competittions, framing, going to seminars, and meeting with clients, yet I haven't posted on the blog in 10 days. I promise to put some stuff up here soon. Probably a recap of the week post. I am not on my main computer right now so I will not be posting any images in this post, however I will post a really cool link to a good thread about lighting diagrams. www.modelmayhem.com/p.php?thread_id=96872&page=1 It serves a a great learning tool and is very good reminder to us all to save that lighting info. Even the positions are quite critical if you ar replicating a shot. I have an old favorite that I use for pregnancy shoots, and the position and height of the back light are very important to how the light wraps the subject. Once I had the source too low and too far back and didn't get the result I wanted. It is a simple 1 light set-up, so I never really thought much of it, but in hind sight had I made a lighting map I could have got the exact result on this and every subsequent shot. Now I have it commited to memory, but I ought to take more shots of my setups myself so I can contribute to the pool of information.

Jeff -3D-

Cheer team competittion

I had the pleasure of shooting some cheer teams this weekend at a competittion. I must extend my thanks to Brian from On Sight Photography for allowing me to shoot along side of his team for the event. I was there to get some practice and see what one can expect from this type of event since next weekend I am headed to Athabasca to help Burnadette shoot a cheer event up there. Upon arriving, I saw that there was a pro dedicated to shooting the event, and out of respect for their contract, I sought out the person in charge of the photography to introduce myself, and ask for their consent to allow me to shoot there. While they were not too keen on the idea of having someone else 'eat their sandwich' so to speak, I was able to convince them that I was not there to cut in on the gig. In fact I offered to shoot for them, as an additional photographer. So Brian gave me a shirt and a memory card and sent me out there. I did what I was told, 3200 ISO f2.8 1/320 sec at 4200K for proper exoposure, and went to it. After filling the card and returning it to the event shooter, I decided that to get faster shutter speed I could use the 85mm F1.2, where I could get the shutter up to 1/640 th at f 2. This limits the DOF, but really makes for some nice action grabs. I was going to try some additional strobes to cross light, but I didn't want to make a scene. I may try it next weekend, but I am unsure if I will be able to have the lights keep up to the frame rate on the Mark III. Any rate, the lesson here is be respectful, up front, and personable when shooting at an event that is being covered by another photographer, and let them know what you are doing and why you want to shoot there. This holds true for all events, especially weddings, where it is not uncommon to have several people shooting the same shot over the hired photograhers shoulder. Give the main shooter room to work and don't be a distraction.

Jeff

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