Where Am I?
08/11/06 08:17 AM |
Tortured Artist
I had an interesting thing happen to me on my way
home from NYC this week. I had dozed off a bit on the
flight home and woke up in a daze. After several days
of traveling around in everything from planes to cabs
to subways, for a few seconds I wasn't quite sure
where I was. I looked to my right and saw a fellow
passenger with a sleeping 1 year old on her lap. I
looked to my left and saw that I was 5 miles in the
air. Whoa!
"Flying is so weird." was my final thought before the drink cart arrived to give me my complimentary sample of Coke.
Hardly getting a load of clothes through the wash, I began checking gear and charging batteries for a great job I am now embarking on. Last year I had the opportunity to travel around the country creating portraits for a company that makes radiation equipment and gamma knives. The portraits were used for a calendar that was given to their clients. The calendar was so successful with their marketing folks that I have the opportunity to do it again! The largest challenge this job offers to me is the travel schedule. I got the call yesterday that the job was on and I needed to be in Philladelphia today. Flights were booked and I ramped up my post production on a few jobs and wrapped up some loose ends that were hanging before I left for NYC. I return from Philly later tonight, shoot a wedding this weekend, then I have a day of shooting in Atlanta, Fly and shoot in L.A. on Tuesday, then fly back to finish shooting for this job in Atlanta on Wednesday. Madness!
To add to this madness, my flight is delayed here in Atlanta. I have a window of about one hour to get 3 portraits shot. The portraits are being made with a new machine they are introducing at a trade show so not only do I have limited time, I have to get this done on a trade show floor so that it doesn't look like a trade show floor. Those who know me well know that (1) I am a minimialist with my gear so I don't have a truckload of lights to relight the trade show floor... and (2) I don't rely on Photoshop. As in, "Oh, I'll just change the background in Photoshop." This should be fun!
Posts to come when I catch my breath - Final NYC photos, OneLight NYC Photos and recap, and Expo Plus recap with links to the cool stuff that caught my eye.
Cheers,
Zack
"Flying is so weird." was my final thought before the drink cart arrived to give me my complimentary sample of Coke.
Hardly getting a load of clothes through the wash, I began checking gear and charging batteries for a great job I am now embarking on. Last year I had the opportunity to travel around the country creating portraits for a company that makes radiation equipment and gamma knives. The portraits were used for a calendar that was given to their clients. The calendar was so successful with their marketing folks that I have the opportunity to do it again! The largest challenge this job offers to me is the travel schedule. I got the call yesterday that the job was on and I needed to be in Philladelphia today. Flights were booked and I ramped up my post production on a few jobs and wrapped up some loose ends that were hanging before I left for NYC. I return from Philly later tonight, shoot a wedding this weekend, then I have a day of shooting in Atlanta, Fly and shoot in L.A. on Tuesday, then fly back to finish shooting for this job in Atlanta on Wednesday. Madness!
To add to this madness, my flight is delayed here in Atlanta. I have a window of about one hour to get 3 portraits shot. The portraits are being made with a new machine they are introducing at a trade show so not only do I have limited time, I have to get this done on a trade show floor so that it doesn't look like a trade show floor. Those who know me well know that (1) I am a minimialist with my gear so I don't have a truckload of lights to relight the trade show floor... and (2) I don't rely on Photoshop. As in, "Oh, I'll just change the background in Photoshop." This should be fun!
Posts to come when I catch my breath - Final NYC photos, OneLight NYC Photos and recap, and Expo Plus recap with links to the cool stuff that caught my eye.
Cheers,
Zack
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