Coming Up For Air And Answering A Reader Question
From a recent
portrait session
Wow, it’s been a crazy couple of months, and I’ve decided it’s time to come up for air for a few minutes, just long enough to write up a post. I know many of you regular readers out there have been wondering where I’ve been and why I suddenly stopped posting. One reader even called to make sure everything was ok (thanks for the ring Scott).
You see, right about time I made my last post, things got crazy in the Solley household. As some of the more longtime readers know, I’ve been planning a move to Colorado from Texas for some time now. Well that time has finally come. I’ve been busy for the last two months straight getting my house ready to sell (lots of work there), packing for the move, and of course with Christmas coming up, we’ve been shooting lots of portrait sessions. We’re actually making our move to Colorado this weekend. That’s right, immediately following Christmas we’ll be loading up and heading to the mountains. What this means is that you’ll start seeing portraits taken with the beautiful Rocky Mountains in the background from here on out.
I’ve been getting some questions coming to my inbox, but have just been too busy to answer them. So I thought this would be a good time to do so. Since time is short today, I’ll just answer one that seems especially relevant.
Julius writes:
I’ve been looking at your site.. and love it. For some reason I’ve been getting many requests to photograph parties, and weddings. I’ve been looking at some basic traveling light kits from Photogenic, and noticed the Pocket-Wizard Plus II. How does this work with the Nikon D300, the SB-800 and also light kits for portraits? Or, does it? I’m really wanting to get started and am very interested in any info you can provide to help get me on the right track.
You’ve come to the right place Julius. Pocket Wizard Plus II’s are the cat’s meow. You can use them on any camera with a hot shoe (including that D300) and they definitely work nicely with those Nikon flashes. There are lots of cables to connect them to any flash or studio strobe. For a little more info., check out the Portrait Lighting For Beginners: Camera and Lights article. And for tons more information that’s all over the PW’s, check out Strobist.
That’s it for today folks. For those of you who celebrate Christmas, have a wonderful holiday. For everyone else, take some awesome pictures.
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December 24th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Nice to see you’re bacl Tim, just yesterday i checked on my RSS reader wondering if it wasnt working.
Also, since the topic was Weddings and parties, i just saw a site of a photographer/journalist named Bryan Mitchell, http://www.bryanmitchell.com/ , and i quite like his work, perhaps Julius could get some ideas from his website for more insight to wedding photography (i think he takes it a little further with the wedding photojournalism, which i find very neat).
Cheers.
December 26th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Hi Rooshad,
Yes, it’s been nice to get a few minutes to get back on the blog, I’ve so missed writing articles and interacting with you all. Unfortunately it’s about to get real bad again, I’m moving day after tomorrow! The worst part is there’s no cable or DSL service to my new house in the mountains, so I may need to investigate some satellite ($$$$) internet options.
Wedding photojournalism is very cool. My wife and I have been toying with the idea of trying out some weddings, and we would definitely go the PJ route. If you haven’t seen it yet, Matt Adcock runs a really great wedding PJ site at Flash Flavor.
December 26th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Wow, Tim!
Season’s greetings, buddy. We’ve missed you. I couldn’t help but call, you know that!
Not gonna tie you up. Do what you have to do. Looking forward to the site getting back in full swing.
Best in 2008!
Scott