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November 15, 2008:
Photo Shoot at City Art in Van Nuys
This photo shoot was at a fundraiser event held at City Art in Van Nuys.
City Art is an art gallery owned by Alan Semsar of Barcelona (www.Barcelona.la),
a company that promotes events. City Art gallery is
currently showing the art of Kamran Khavarani who specializes in oil
paintings described as abstract romanticism. They are very
imaginative and colorful.
I scoped out the area to find the best approach. The art gallery
was very well lit, this was a refreshing change from the usually dark
environments I had been shooting. I figured the lighting would
make it possible for me to use my manually focused lenses. The
event would be a long one starting at 8:30 going until 1:00 am. So to
stretch the laptop power I decided to start with negative backs.
My lens choice would be the 28mm fisheye, 45mm 2.8 wide angle lens, 80mm
AF lens and the 150mm AF telephoto. I decided to use two
exposure settings that worked well when shooting the 264 Customs event.
I would use the 125 synced shutter speed for the AF camera and use 3.5
fstop with the bounced flash, the other would be to set the lens at
about f11 using direct flash. Actually I started with my main
Mamiya 645 Pro TL with the Metz CL-4 flash and set it to the
TL mode. This works great and is a no-brainer since the flash will
pretty much figure things out on its own. Unfortunately the camera
bombed out on me toward the end of the roll, I switched to the 80mm lens
and the shutter opened for a long time, I could not reset it. I
retired that camera and decided to use the AFD camera.
The basic plan was the same as the 264 Customs shoot, just keep moving,
keep shooting and make my self available to anyone who needed a photo.
The cool thing about this shoot was that all the artwork around me could
be used
as interesting backgrounds. It was easy to mix it up to keep it
interesting. Not to mention the very interesting and varied group
of subjects to shoot. So I was in my element going around
composing interesting photos getting candid and posed shots.
I quickly burned through the first two rolls of film then I decided to
switch to the digital back, since, by this time the party was really
getting started. I set up the leaf valeo software and set it
for rapid capture, and gingerly set the laptop into my Lowepro backpack.
I also need to carry about two additional lenses with me and before the
shoot I was trying to figure out the best way to have these lenses
handy. I realized my soft Lowepro lens case had a velcro belt
strap, this worked great. I also used my leather lens case hung
around my neck and a camera case with the fisheye lens in it. Add
to this the backpack which I slung on one shoulder then buckled it
around my waist.
Continued...->
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