Long Days and Full Flash Cards

Last week was even busier than the week before, with four straight days shooting for the Catholic Health Association in Kankakee, Bourbonnais, Joliet and Frankfort, and three days shooting for Provena St Joseph Hospital in Elgin (new hospital tower opening events), as well as two track meets. Today I've been crunching through over 3000 pictures, editing them and processing the RAW images into JPGs.

The CHA shoots were almost all shot under existing light, something I don't normally do. It was necessary, though, to be able to squeeze in as many shots as possible for the client. All in all, we got a number of good shots. I enjoyed working with the many residents and medical staff we shot with. We must have collected over 150 model releases.

On Friday I shot a track meet for Wheaton College, shooting for seven hours. I never thought I'd fill my 12GB flash card, but it happened. I also used most of my two 2GB cards. From 1,076 pictures, I reduced that number down to 467 this morning.

Busy Week

It's been a busy week photographically. On Tuesday I learned that one of my images (see below) had been licensed by McCann-Erickson (a large, worldwide advertising agency) for a national ad campaign. Today I learned that the image of a field I shot in North Yorkshire in 2006 will be used in a series of Poland Spring (bottled water) ads starting this month.

Yesterday I spent the whole day on a hospital shoot in Joliet shooting for a nursing annual report. It was a long (ten hour) day but some of the candid images, shot without supplemental lights, came out great. It's kind of funny to watch the nurses scatter when they see a guy with a camera show up. It's hard to find any that are OK with being in a picture! We did one more shoot this morning, then I processed almost three dozen high resolution images this afternoon. I think it should be a nice recruiting piece for them.

On Sunday afternoon, I cracked the LCD screen on the back of my new camera. I've got some big  full day shoots lined up so I wanted to get it repaired ASAP. I overnighted it to California on Monday, and got it back today (Thursday). As a CPS (Canon Professional Services) member, they did it at no charge. Nice service, and quick. Still, for a $4500 camera, it's nice to know they will replace it for free!