Jim, I am fortunate to have a wonderful relationship and trust my photo developers. I have even worked behind the counter for them. I am part of the family. Therefore I have total confidence in them.
I can more quickly view the prints than the computer screen when editing. I usually take three shots of each group. I can put all three together and decide which to present to the couple. I do not throw out prints nor delete files, so it is so much easier to pull out the prints to show people. It is all to my convenience. That, and I have had directories disappear on a computer in the past. It is harder for me to lose a negative or slide. César Panama City, Florida -----Original Message----- From: Jim Apilado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 3:14 PM Cesar, Your wedding activities reminded me of some weddings I have done in the past. I did one wedding exclusively with digital. I decided I will not longer do a wedding with a digital slr, although I could take many more exposures than with film. My reasoning is that there is a lot of post-production labor involving digital that I never did with film. Exposure corrections, sharpening, maybe some gaussian blur effect. All takes time. When it comes to film, I may have some images printed to "hot" and I return to the lab for correction. I let them correct the error. Yes, it takes time as well to do this, but I enjoy being inside a camera store looking at all the toys. Jim A. > From: "Cesar Matamoros II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:45:26 -0400 > > I have not been keeping up with the list - I know, tell you something new - > but I actually had a good excuse the last few days. Just bear with me :-) > > My next door neighbor's elder daughter got married on Saturday. She is like > my little sister. My, how they all grow up... > > Anyway, I was the official photographer. All the festivities began on > Thursday - now that is the way to celebrate. > Thursday was a sunset cruise into the bay. I used the *ist D for about 200 > shots on the boat. It was a nice way to meet some of the groom's family. > It is good to know who these people are for when you are shooting at the > reception. It was a wonderful time as I was getting some nice candids, > especially as the sun was setting. I found I was rather stealthy as shots > were taken and no one realized I was even around. I did have to prefocus > some as I talked to people - who did not like their photo taken - and shot > from the hip or the chest. > > Friday was the rehearsal. I shot a roll of 160 NC as a test with different > settings to verify lighting and such. I was using the MZ-S. The rehearsal > dinner was fantastic. Some more meeting of people and a plethora of candid > shots. I was using the *ist D for these and ended up with another 200 > shots. > > Saturday I took in the test roll to my developer. They came out great! > Easily correctible with a negative, but I found MY setting as -1 with the > flash. I believe in minimizing any corrections by the lab. It is not > because I do not trust them, but rather I want it right straight from the > camera. I should know what I am doing and not have to rely on others to > correct my mistakes. > The lab person told me I should have had them dressed up at the rehearsal as > they were lovely exposures. She says it is a dream to work with my film. > She was raving over the exposure, the sharpness, the color of the shots. > Thank you Pentax :-) > > At 1:15 I made it to the church. The wedding was at 4. I shot mainly the > film camera. I had the MZ-S as my main camera (film wind) with three LXen > as backups. I did use an LX during the ceremony shooting Ilford Delta 3200 > at ASA 1600. I was using the FA* 200/2.8 from the back of the church for > these b&w shots. I would have loved to have had the *ist D alongside to > compare. The test shots with the *ist D at 1600 were very nice. > I ended up shooting just over 13 rolls, that included a few at the > reception. > The fun part was switching the AF400T between the *ist D and MZ-S. I shot > digitally for a few of the 'silly' 'fun' shots and did film for the formals. > I will leave out a few of the personal things that went on - being that I am > so close to the family it was the most enjoyable wedding I have done. They > do have one more daughter, so I may get to experience it again. > The reception was another blast. It was held at the elementary school where > she taught. It made for some interesting logistics. And to top it all off > we had rain. I never gave it a second thought, especially when carting the > LX. I ended up taking almost 400 shots on the *ist D. > > The saber arch was beautiful, and their dash in the rain to the Corvette was > a nice ending. I ended up shotting until about 8:30 that night. Surprised > myself that I was not really tired. You really do not want to know how many > cameras, flashes, lenses, battery packs, batteries, and external meters I > was carrying. > > I talked to the DJ about this when he was waiting for a replacement > microphone to show up. I told him that there was no way I would go out > without some backup... > > Sorry for the ramble, thought some might be interested. > > Dropping off the film after work, > > César > Panama City, Florida >
