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Starting off.

Having come from the world of music (I was trained as a professional clarinetist years ago) I totally abuse the word “gig.” I suppose in this line of work, I should adapt and substitute “shoot” for “gig” but “shoot” doesn’t sound very appealing to me. I’ll stick to gig. Y’all know what it means anyhow, right?

I have my second unpaid gig tomorrow night and I’m pretty nervous about it. My first unpaid gig did not go as well as I had hoped, as far as the quality of the pictures went. I shot that in .jpg so I had much less data in each picture (data = saftey net in editing) than if I’d shot RAW and I somehow totally fracked my shutter speed when I set the full manual mode so half the pictures have this lovely orange motion blur. Not great. I could blame most of it on the venue. Very high, black ceiling. Using a flash diffuser, I was a total newbie.

Tomorrow night’s shoot is at the same venue (my church) but a totally different place in the church. If I remember correctly, it has a very high ceiling, but at least it’s white. I’ll be shooting where there are lots of pin lights down low so hopefully that will allow some of the shots to be taken sans flash. I also now have 5 GB worth of memory cards so I’ll be able to shoot in RAW and take tons of pictures. I think 500 pictures will be a nice amount for this event. If I nail exposure and white balance, I may go into jpeg mode which will boost the number of pictures I can take… but that’s only if I’m feeling confident. I’ll also be packing up my tripod. Definitely taking the tripod. Maybe the monopod? Haven’t decided on that one yet.

Here are some pics from the first unpaid gig. They’re not all that great, so don’t get your hopes up.

That cake was totally delicious. I need to get the caterer’s name so I can give you guys his link. The food was amazing and I was glad to get a dinner out of it! (I guess that’s good payment, eh?)

Hello world!

Hey! I’m starting a photoblog! Here’s a pic of me with hair going up my nose of course!  Taken by my hubby.