Came home this evening early and was thinking to myself that I could get some photos done. Little did I know that the sandman was waiting to knock me out when I hit the couch just to “unwind”. Needless to say I’m now up at 2am and only completed 3 photos from this weekend’s shoot. Managed to correct a HORRIBLE edit that I did with a more acceptable picture. Have to get back to bed soon because I have another shoot for the museum in the morning! Oh busy has been my photography this month! I still have to “prep” myself for a wedding next month as well!!
Here are some of the edits for the Megan and Tim maternity shoot
Just started with a new clients this weekend. Megan and Tim and a new client for shooting cakes came up this weekend so I have a lot of editing and shooting for the rest of the month! I still need to get the wedding photos done before the next wedding comes up and hits me in the butt!
The maternity shoot with Megan and Tim turned out very good. unfortunately we were not able to do the outside shoot. We are going to save that for a not so rainy day. I will be posting up the final edits on the blog soon…
A new client called Forbidden Harvest has asked me to shoot some cake shots for them. I’ve already posted some photos on the site. Don’t know about doing cake shots. So tempting to eat the subject! Here are one of the photos from today.
I’m hoping I get more images up from the maternity shoot and the wedding today. Follow the link in the sidebar for my brother’s company to see the video of the photo shoot!
Just finished shooting a wedding for a very nice couple. The bride is one of my friends and I told her that I would shoot her wedding a long time ago! It was a nice small wedding in the countryside with just family. These are the teaser photos for the wedding… Still have over 1500 to cull and edit… Going to be busy for the next few weeks!
I was just glad that I had my gear working correctly that day to capture the moments. Just need to work on the timing of the events. Just wish that I could be at many places at the same time!
Last week I just got my 40D and my 70-200 back from service. Glad they are both back before the wedding this weekend! At least I’ll have an assortment of gear that I can get the job done along with some back-up. I did manage to acquire the 5D reluctantly. I only regret it because of the lack of funds that I have to work with. Other than that it’s a fabulous camera! I’ve had to re-evaluate my shooting style considering it’s a whole different form factor when it comes to crop. I have not done any serious shooting with her yet because of lack of time and me having a lack of ideas to shoot.
I hope that this weekend won’t be a trial by fire with the new camera. Then next weekend I have a maternity shoot for a couple that will involve a mix of environmental as well as “studio” type shots for their new addition to their family. I just hope that I can pull it off considering I was planning to use the funds that I paid for the 5D for new lighting. Just going to have to make due with what I’ve got until I have enough to get the new lights and modifiers. I forgot to add that I had to buy all types of accessories to get comfortable with the 5D. These are the same accessories that I have for the 20D and the 40D so that I have the same feel with all the cameras.
In the next few days, if the weather holds out, I hope that I can at least shoot some photos with the new camera and my newly repaired lens just to get the feel of the camera and to see if Canon really did repair my lens!
Last week had a little bit of a catastrophe happen with some of my gear. My 40D and my 70-200IS lens had to go into the shop. The 40D would not power up and the lens had some focusing issues. Needless to say I was not pleased considering that I have to do some shoots this month and only had one camera and 2 lenses to do it. One of the shoots is a wedding shoot. Don’t think that would cut the mustard….
My quest began for a replacement camera, or at least a back up or new primary camera. After some diligent research I decided to get a used 5D. This decision also came on with the recommendation from a good friend and fellow photographer. I found a good deal, bought some other accessories and now I have a 5D to add to my collection of gear! I’ve also added a new background stand to finally hold the 105′ long background paper in my living room too… I hope that this camera is all that is said to be considering it was funds that I really wasn’t really ready to pay for right now!
Even though it’s a really nice camera I noticed a few things. I’m just going to have to get used to the new camera. Some of the things that I noticed are: all my lenses are now wider angle then they were with the other cameras that I own, it’s a little louder in shutter than my 40D, the viewfinder is WAY bigger than my other cameras and it seems a little more heavier than my other 2 cameras. I really haven’t taken it out for a run yet, but I guess I can try it out later this week. I’m going to have to do it soon so that I can get used to shooting with it!
I will post my views later..
