Whew! I am exhuasted! It was a lot of work-always moving, trying
to get the right expressions. I was the second shooter. Why he
trusted me to do that-I do not know. He constantly gave me asignments
and said "go!" and I would have to go get the shots he wanted. I loved
it. I took more beautiful photos than I have ever taken in my life. He also just gave me free range most of the time to shoot what I wanted to shoot.
I
got to use all the best very lenses under the sun. I could not hold my
camera with his huge flash, so went for the sideways/crooked look on a
lot of them later in the night(s). If I set the settings wrong he
would simply tell me what I did wrong, so I learned a ton that way as
well.
He would occasionally look at my photos and give me a tip
on what I was doing wrong with the background or something else-small
things that I did not notice. When I thought it was a great photo and
he pointed out the small line here or there in the background that
offset the photo. He is teaching me to be a great photographer. I
showed him a friend's site, and said I want to be that good someday, maybe in a year.
He said he could teach me to be that good in the next two weeks. I
made him bet on it, so we'll see.
His other apprentice is going to trade me for assisting at shoots. I have three of my own scheduled just for next week!
Overall, though, I was scared about the wedding but with his lenses and guidence it was great, not hard at all.
Since
we have the same camera we just switched with each other all night
depending on if he needed the one with the lens I was using at the
moment. But, going through the photos tonight was so interesting. We
calibrated our camera times to the second, so I could see what he shot
while I was shooting something else. Or we would shoot the same thing
at the same moment from different angles. I learned so much just from
that.
Anyways, I will post both galleries when they go up in the next week or so.
Hope this was interesting to someone:)
Stacey Potter
Boulder Baby Photography (I am finally learning photoshop!)
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Loving my Nikon d300 (while my d40x is gathering dust:)