Last Monday after aikido a couple of the other students were chatting,
trying to figure out where they knew each other from. One mentioned
that he taught at UCSC. I asked him what he taught, and it was
documentary photography. Later, he and I were chatting about
photography, and when he found out that I shot Pentax, he was rather
curious, because he wants something besides Canikon to recommend to
students.
The more I told him about Pentax gear, the more excited he became, and
he nearly fell in love at first sight with the DA40. I know that
Pentax was giving good discounts to photography students, but they
could do well to contact college photography instructors directly.
Last night, when I got to Friday Night Blues one of the other dancers
was there promoting the blues dancing room at his event next weekend http://balboabattle.com/
and asked me to DJ. I said I don't DJ, I do photography. It turns
out that he has Pentax gear too. He's also offered to trade me
admission to the weekend for photographing it.
I got a great ego stroke last night. One of the other dancers came up
to me and said that she used to do photography and that my photos of
dancing and people inspired her to buy a DSLR yesterday.
One of the other dancers was shooting with his D90 last night. I was
dancing with someone, saw Scott aiming his camera at us and asked her
if she wanted to do something special for him. She said sure, but had
no idea. So I did a move that's I accidentally came up with while
dipping someone a few years back which ends up with us both facing him
and her pretty much upside down: http://red4est.com/thurials/koshi/koshi.html
Everybody got a laugh out of it and he complained that he hadn't had
time to get the shot focused, that I should hold her like that for
longer. So, about a minute later, I did. fortunately its a move that
only looks like I'm using strength to hold her up.
A short while later, they turned down the lights and his exposure went
from ISO 6400 f/1.8 1/40 to about half that. He was going to give up
shooting when I loaned him my monopod. He's a convert, he now has a
monopod on his shopping list.
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