We are waiting for our first visit with the baby doctor and this old guy is snoring VERY LOUDLY in the waiting room. I hope he hasn’t been here since his wife’s first visit!
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Gaff tape galore could be found at a recent commercial shoot we had at the beginning of the week in which we tested out the tethering feature built into Aperture 2. It was big success as a first test of in the field tethering. It was a commercial shoot for the Color Bar salon. You can see some more behind the scenes shots that I fired off on Jamie’s blog.
If you are curious about the tech here is what we did…
We setup lights, background, other photo gear as normal. Then we setup our MacBook Pro running Aperture 2 with two RAID 1 LaCie Rugged external hard drives. We were shooting with the oh so nice Nikon D3. The D3 was tethering to the MacBook Pro via a USB 2.0 cable which was securely attached with miles of gaff tape as you can see in the picture below. We also had a SanDisk Extreme III 8GB Compact Flash card inside the D3 so files where written to both card and the two hard drives simultaneously. It sounds sort of complicated, but Aperture 2 made it extremely easy.
Shooting tethered saved alot of post production time and made us able to turn the job around alot faster than normal. Having the ability to let the client “proof” images on the spot and make selections right away saved the time of choosing images, running web proofing galleries, waiting for choices, then narrowing selections, and finally editing shots. It also gave Jamie the freedom to see exactly what the shot looked like and no second guessing about lighting, focus, etc. Although a shot like this did require quite a bit of tech-pre-planning to make sure that everything would work seamlessly. The gaff tape is also to prevent Jamie from accidentally turning the camera off during the shoot. Something he is hard-wired into doing!
Enjoy!
I have definitely had this conversation with people before. It reminds me that I need to get a t-shirt that says, “No. I will not fix your computer.” Image thanks to Monster-Munch.com.
Very interesting article!
http://www.americanpapist.com/2008/08/finally-some-honesty-about-effects-of.html
You know not many posts on this blog ever mention the ill-fated word PC, unless of course it is some rant concerning Microsoft Internet Explorer. But I have come across a PC that could make me drop virtualization and run a PC in our office. I know the idea of having a beige box is scary, but this one is pretty slick! The only reason I need a PC of course is for web site testing. It is getting harder and harder to emulate real world issues on virtualization trying to run both IE 6 (my arch nemisis) and IE 7 on the same system. I also run into the issues of design especially concerning the gamma difference between Mac and PC rendering. I am tired of forgetting and hearing a client say why is the site so dark. Anyway…this might actually be a consideration.
Sights like this remind me of how much Apple really has become a daily cultural phenomenon. It used to be Apple was the odd ball hippy/ designer company, but know Barnes and Noble has a section for Apple and the everyday computing tasks!
