Last week of school!

Hey everyone!

This is the last week of school before winter break. So here is what is going on:

Monday night we will be doing our Star Wars shoot, and this time we are shooting the Jedi, bring your gear, and be ready for some slow shutter speeds. And we may have a few surprises... (Don't click here)

Wednesday night and Thursday night we will have review, questions, and Pot Luck, so please bring a dish.

I'm off to go ice skating wit my daughter in Pershing Square today. I fell in love with it on our Faded & Blurred downtown LA photo walk, and my daughter loves trains, so off we go!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and I will see you next week...

So what did you shoot this week?

Wow, what a frenetic week I had! And what a vast array of images I wound up with. It started last Saturday with the engagement shoot of Brian and Michelle, the off to the deepest depths of the universe with the members of the 501st, a sexy shoot with Rachel Rankin just to mix it up, and another engagement type session with my class on Thursday. Throw in some images of my daughters swim class, and a very well known porta-potty (who knew it was famous?) taken with my iPhone, and it is a very ecclectic mix of images, with a vast array of high and low quality gear. I didn't use my camera Friday, we needed some time apart, we both needed to charge our batteries :-)

Please don't forget that I LOVE to get comments down below, positive or negative. As I am still new to this blog-o-sphere, the comments may help shape the direction we head in.

Now off to the week in images. From Saturday, Brian & Michelle

Taken with my iPhone on the way to the shoot

Another iPhone snap

From Sunday with the family at the Arboretum:

My daughter in the Bamboo Forest looking TALL!

Monday, in a Galaxy far, far, away:

Available light, ISO 3200, 1/20 sec

Tuesday, back in the studio:

Available light, ISO 2200

Wednesday at my daughters swim class:

Her 1st jump off the diving board unassisted!

And finally, the most famous porta-potty in West Covina:

So what did YOU shoot this week?

Also this week in class, we spoke about Lightroom actions. You can find them here:

http://mb-photoprofessional.com/

And go read Chase Jarvis' entertaining blog post "Someone's got to be first" here:

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/

Since this is the last week of the semester at school, we will be doing review, and hopefully having pot luck in each class. This will be a fun week. Please remember to bring in images, there are still a lot of students that have not contributed images to our models.

Now get out and shoot!

Frank

The lighting class

Hi everyone!

Here is the picture everyone wants to see. I want to thank my lighting on location class for induldging me and my inner geek for letting me play with some new toys.

This image was created using the new DSLR Remote app for the iPhone made by onOne software. (click image for larger version)More here: http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=38

It currently only works with Canon DSLR's, but they are working on adding other camera manufacturers as I type. Basically, it allows you to manually control your camera from your iPhone, and change ISO, f-stop, & shutterspeed, gives you live view, and triggers the shutter from your iPhone. Then it sends the image to your phone for review. The camera has to be tethered to a computer, as this all works through a wifi network. It installs a small program on the host computer, and lets you set up an ad-hock network, so if you have a wi-fi capable laptop, then as long as you have cell service, you can get this to work. El Mirage anyone?

For this image, we have 35 students, 33 Canon and Nikon flashes that fired, an iPhone, a Canon 5DMKII, and a whole lot of fun. An ode to the "Strobist"

I will be doing a lot of shooting this weekend, so I will be posting again before Monday.

Don't forget, Monday night will be a special treat, we are expecting 8-10 members of the 501st, a Star Wars character group, to be at Tri for the shoot of the year. Thanks goes to Lilo for setting this up. I even think we may have some other Tri teachers tagging along... (Jeffery?)

See you then,

Frank