The Studio

Tomorrow...

...I have plans early in the morning (before the studio opens) to bring a friend in to pose for me so I can start compiling photos for my mini portfolio on lighting. Yesterday I had a different friend posing for me outside as I want to do a little section on using natural lighting. Let's hope my creative brain can wake up as early as I am forcing my body to.

Buyer Beware

Another long day at work. Another day that I can't seem to get the images I scanned of the sketches I made of the studio put up into my blog. I figured out that the problem is in the file...now I just need to learn how to fix it.

Work was--well, it was work. The transmitter/receiver thingy is still broken so we are still using the cord attached directly to the camera. Unfortunately, it doesn't make a sound if the camera doesn't flash (and the lights are bright enough that sometimes you don't even notice the flash anyways), so it sucks to find out after the pictures are loaded that the one you thought that was really cute is too dark cause the flash didn't go off and the thingy didn't beep to tell you to retake the picture.

Sometimes however, I get caught up in the artistic flow of things and forget that despite the photography, they have a business to run and many a time it comes down to the all-mighty dollar. I call it a good day if the screaming baby finally smiled and I got a great shot. They call it a good day when the sales average is up up up.

Can't Load Images

So for the last 2 nights I have been trying to upload some scanned images of the sketches I drew at the studio...alas. Blogger hates me. I will try again tomorrow...

Work Work Work

So this past weekend I spent everyday at the studio. Friday I kicked off the craziness by spending a couple of hours sketching the camera room and making my way through the computer training program that had a ton of useful material about how everything works. Soon, I will scan in my sketch so I can get it posted up here.

Saturday and Sunday were straight work days. They were hectic. Sometimes that baby just won't smile or a difficult customer doesn't like the poses you put them in. (I'm sorry your face look squished, would you prefer the photo where your eyes are closed?)

Thankfully I made it out in one piece with a ton of newly gained knowledge under my belt. I'm going to start compiling my "data" into a lighting portfolio of sorts. I even got the ok from my boss to bring in family and friends to practice on or use for the section in my report on studio specific lighting. (I hope to explore other forms this semester as well, such as nighttime and outdoor.)