BACK TO SCHOOL!!!

We start stock photography with Sonny on Monday. Both nights were high paced. He's full of energy which keeps us on our toes!

We were in the studio on Wednesday night and I shot my tools. I used the 100mm MACRO lens that the school has. I fell in love with it! Sonny had us setup two different table tops. One in the studio using a Profoto pack and another outside in the school lobby using Kino lights. I definately got my shots. I just need to pick the best 10 out of the bunch I have.

Next class is Monday so lets see how that goes!

Wacom Intuos 4

So yesterday I finally got an email back from a client who listed his choice of pictures. Since I'm not going to school until June 1st, I didn't have the Wacom tablet at my disposal. So, I jumped the gun and bought the new Intuos 4. My director said this was a real good tablet so I looked into it. I just couldn't justify the $350.00 for a medium tablet.

I started my post processing this morning and I got irritated with the mouse. I just couldn't do it. Now that I have the tablet, I finished a few pictures in no time.

THANK YOU WACOM! THANK YOU FOR BREAKING MY POCKETS AND FOR CREATING SUCH A USEFUL TOOL! lol.

Its Offical..

Location Portraits is canceled. This module has been added to the end our program here at CDIA. We start our new module on June 1st.

CS4

Went to a training class last night for CS4. The school plans to wipe out CS3 when the new class starts.

I need CS4..lol. I was impressed by some of the things they added to the program. Did I mention I need CS4? lol. I can't wait to play around with it on the computers once its installed next week.

Module is over wth..

Just got an email that location portraits has been canceled. I'll find out Wednesday what the deal is and whats going on.

Locations...

We finally finished speedlites and now have moved on to Location Portraits. On Monday it was a bit challenging because of the rain. It was nice one minute and then the clouds took over. We ended up shooting Larkin under the Key Bridge until almost 9:30pm. I think we all got the shot we wanted.

Now today, we'll be shooting right outside the school. Of who? Well, your guess is as good as mine. Lets hope it goes well.

First time shooting in the rain..

So last night we had to get one of our night shots using speedlites for our deliverable. It wasn't easy to pull off. Our orignal shot was at Jack's Boathouse with Paul in the boat while its tied to the dock.

Since it was raining yesterday, we couldn't do that shot for numerous reasons. So we decided to use the boathouse as our next shot. We setup the lights and did some final touches. A young woman named Larken stopped by to see how the shoot was going because she was interested in attending CDIA. So we used her as a model instead of Paul. She was a great sport and put up with us..lol.

The rain came down hard but we managed to cover up the camera and speedlites. the final shot came out good.

The highlight of the night was watching a group of kids that were trying to get into some fraternity/soroity. They were made to clean the kayaks in the river and then they had to parade around in diapers..lol. I wish I would of gotten a picture of that.