Hi All,
I've been asked to be the official photographer for the 2002 Midwest
Regional Kuk Sool Won tournament. An all day deal of shooting the
winners on a podium (280 events), Then shifting to PJ mode and
shooting the Master's demonstrations that night along with shooting
the pix of the new black-belts receiving their "degree" and the raised
black-belts receiving theirs.
Way worse than a wedding I'll wager...work-wise, but not as distressing
(hopefully) I'm out of familiar waters big-time with this...never done
pro-type work at all.
Problem is, I shoot BW for the most part, and slides if I want color.
For family events/color negative I just take whatever's cheapest at
WallyWorld...I'm thinking of getting Porta160NC to use at this thing
with some 4800º floods (~250W) for the podium stuff (I can set that
part up and it'll be locked in - there's a place set aside for that)
I'll be shooting verticals of 4 people at a time Olympics-style and have
~20 feet by 30 feet to work with. As I'm the owner of only "crappy"
Zuik's
(list to follow) I'd be sure happy for some of you pro's and semi-pro's
to jump all over this...What lens would you use for the "staged,
tripoded"
shots? Is the film choice a good one for this task? (8X10 is the target
print size)
Now for the PJ stuff...I'll need to get some distance for the Master's
demo
part as they can take up a whole gymnasium (the event is at the gym at
UMSL - St. Louis) and move pretty fast, but I've competed here before and
-kinda- know where the action will peak so can pre-focus/frame
(hopefully)
These shots probably won't get blown to 8X10's, so can tolerate a little
less
sharpness....Porta400NC? Using T32 on BG2?
Now for the second part of the PJ stuff - the graduates... they'll all
come to
a central point to receive the diploma, look back and smile, and once all
of them
have been graduated, BIG group shot...first part is fairly easy, but the
group shot
of 30 to 50 people might be too much for the equipment I have
flash-wise...
Ok, here's what I have to work with:
OM-4 (main body)
OM-10 (back-up only because I'm gonna use flash)
OM-1 (my baby, will bring just to do candids if I have the chance)
24/2.8
35/2.8
50/1.4
50/1.8
50/3.5
90/2.8 Macro (Vivitar)
100/2.8
135/3.5
BG2
T-20
T-32
Winder1 (as a handle only)
Winder2 (as a winder <g>)
Porter's has a light kit of 3 floods, 3 stands and 3 lamps for ~160$ so I
was thinking
of maybe getting that plus a roll (105"X36') of background paper for the
"money" shots
(the podium ones) and use them with one behind the podium facing the
backdrop,
and two on each side of the podium, and have the T-20 on BG2 as a
"fill/catchlights/
stop motion If-I-need-to"
Plan on shooting everything in auto-mode (will have to get used to the
finder, as I
usually shoot in manual)
Any advice on anything remotely concerned with this "project" would be
greatly
appreciated...even re-iterations of getting extra batteries for
everything!
I'm on the digest, and am using Juno, so posting direct is fine-I'll get
it sooner,
and only have until this weekend to say whether I'll even do it (but I'm
kinda locked
in to having to do it I think...
TIA,
Bill >; P
(Owner of only "crappy" Zuiks, no stellars and can still take pix)
"Life unfolds on a great sheet called Time (film)*,
and once finished (developed)* is gone(here)* forever..."
*provided ya have a good archival system in place.
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