6/17/2008
taken : 6/17/2008
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My Cactus V2 radio triggers came in the mail today.
They came all the way from Hong Kong.
The box sort of smells like what I would imagine Hong Kong smelling like.
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The radio triggers are for firing flash units wirelessly.
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I was afraid that the RF might interfere with the CMOS sensor in my camera. These triggers have been known to create banding at the top of pictures when used with Canon 5d bodies. So...I was cautious.
But I tried them out...no banding yet.
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Megan and Trevor came up requesting my services.
They covered their faces in sprinkles.
and I photographed.
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My Sunpak 383 is behind them facing the wall. It was bare, firing at 1/2 or something like that.
The Vivitar 285HV was directly behind me shooting through an umbrella.
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Later LC came by to pick up a print I made for her.
We did a trade.
I told her to sit for the camera. She had just gotten her hair cut, which looked good.
So...another one of these cheesy portraits...relax people...I am just trying to learn how to light things well.
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About an hour later myself, LC, Geege (sp) (aka Gigabyte), and Bonesaw went to Beau Jo's.
LC paid for my dinner + a beer for the print! YAY!
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I found out tonight that people's lives are full of drama. I try to keep that to a minimum. I think my life has a lot of drama, but other people just don't know it. You could say I make that shit up in my head and am mellow dramatic about it...but ya know... it's just the way it is...I am slightly neurotic.
um anyways...
what?
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I apologize if this thing people might call a blog or weblog has become mostly technical bullshit about portraits and lighting shit. Sorry...there just isn't much happening lately.
Which brings me to a point....
I have been trying to get a good understanding of controlling light with small flash units. I think it is a good skill to have if you use flashes or not. It's good mental exercise with light behavior.
And so I had been practicing lighting interiors a lot leading up to my first shoot with Momentum. I brought all of my equipment down there, and well..hardly used it.
When it came down to it, Momentum knew what kind of pictures they wanted...and it was not what I had in mind.
So the point is...it is about what the client wants really. I could have all these ideas and blah blah blah...but really I do what they want me to do. Commercial work, while creative in some aspects with room for your personality, is not about what I want...I am getting paid to provide a service for the client...so I should not be so concerned about it...just be able to do what the client wants.
So...I guess that is probably pretty obvious right?
So then what I just typed (and what you just read) was pointless.
So I didn't really have a point
Not that what you just read would make you dumber having read it...
...but I suppose it wasn't really worthwhile information.
I mean...I could have typed something even dumber...and even more pointless
...like that sometimes I like to put my chair at the lowest height setting because I think it's funny to feel really small at my desk.
...I mean...I am sort of a small guy...but not that small
ya know?
Sorry.
I ramble.
(gruffle)
2 comments:
You're a pretty secretive guy. I think that's one of your biggest allures.
I like these long posts you've been doing and I don't. It's a small window into your life which is nice to see since you've got that whole secretive thing going on. But at the same time you keep it cryptic enough that I still have no idea what the hell is going on. It leaves me wanting more, yet not wanting you to spill ALL the beans, so to speak.
I have no idea what I just said.
Oh, and just so you're up to date on the whole tentative future doubles frolf tournament: the more I play, the worse I get. My drives are getting shorter and shorter by the day. I should probably just quit until next June, and then I'll be the fucking bomb since I took that whole year off of practicing aka getting worse.
Again, I have no idea what I just said.
i like the sprinkles
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