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October 18, 2008:
Photo Shoot at 264 Customs
This is a photo shoot a trendy tattoo/art/clothing store in Hollywood called 264
Customs. They make specialized clothing, tennis shoes, art &
tattoos.
They are having a Halloween costume party and fashion show tonight. Sounds like a lot of
fun, but fun set aside, I have the consider the photo challenges here.
It will be at night, inside with a lot of fast paced action.
Here's the dilemma: I'll have to use a camera mounted flash, but
do I use my Mamiya 645 Pro TL using film with the Metz CL-4 Flash making
adjustments automatically, or do I use the flash (TL not available) on
my Mamiya 645 AFD with it tethered to my Mac laptop, in this case I can
use auto-focus but not auto-flash.
I am leaning toward the AFD with the Mac, even though I will be setting
the flash manually, I can preview the exposures to be sure they are
coming out ok. Also the AFD syncs at 125 which will reduce the
'Saturday Night Live' effect where there is a blurred image around the
flash image.
I will take all my equipment, just in case there is space to setup a
small light studio, you never know. But I am going to set up to be
portable and 'on-the-move'. The game plan here will be to keep it
moving, keep the shutter going, and keep my eyes open. The fashion
show may present some interesting opportunities. I will continue
this article when I return tonight.
I have returned from 264 Customs Halloween party and fashion show.
As far as the game-plan went, it went well for the most part. The
Mamiya 645 AFD performed well with the Mac powerbook, which I slid in a
backpack tethered to the camera. There is a Leaf-Valeo portable
pack, but it looks about as cumbersome as having the mac toted in a
backpack. The mac is very light weight, so that was really not a
problem. The main problem is with the Valeo software.
The software can easily exit out
of rapid-shoot mode and into single capture. If that happens, I
will begin losing the next round of photos as it just discards
photos unless you tell it to save. I have been able, now, to detect
this audibly, when it exits rapid shoot mode it takes much longer to
capture the image. During the night, I checked frequently for this
situation, but it did not occur and I was able to continue to fire off
one shot after another.
Continued...->
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