It's Going to Get Busy - Update 1

I had an original thought of naming this post "Biting Off More Than You Can Chew" but it really has not been. What it has been is a serious commitment of time and energy to pull this project off. The project being of shooting families at church for a pictorial directory.

Again Ii certainly do not mind donating my time to this project for the church. As a side benefit, it has been a lot of fun getting to see people in the church that I may not normally see as there are two services on Sunday morning.

I have been shooting between 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM at ten minute intervals and that has worked out very well. Only a couple of times have I had people waiting but when I checked the time, they were early and the shoot schedule was right on time. I was even able to squeeze in a call-up at the last minute.

Today was the only day I got a little rushed as I had to do a family shoot before the directory shooting started. We had agreed to meet at the church as this was where all the lighting and background was et up. Arriving at 4:30 the mom was already there with her children and I had to put up a white seamless for this shoot. Rather than taking down the grey midnight muslin I simply took more gaffers tape and secured the muslin to the uprights and removed the hanging rod to slide into the seamless tube. Back up on the stands it worked like a charm and when I was done I simply took the A-clamps and clipped them to the muslin and let their weight take out the sag while over the topside of the seamless.

Of course the 6:00 family showed up at 5:45 which put me into rush mode. BUT! I relied on my flying background that says when you rush, that is when you make mistakes, so I consciously made an effort to slow down and get everything set the way I knew it needed to be.

Being Friday night, there was not a big load on the schedule so I was able to wrap it up a little early, get home, download the files to the Drobo and kick back and watch some TV.

Tomorrow is Saturday and the schedule will be quite busy so it's off to be for now.

Cya... Doug