Hey everybody… thought I would share a little bit about what gear and equipment I use for different shoots and stuff. I always like to peek in to what other photographers choice of equipment is; so I think its only fair if I share whats in my bag of goodies. I don’t have any real format for this… I’ll just list and tell a little bit about each piece as needed.
Camera: Nikon D300 (primary) Nikon D200 (backup) – I am still getting used to the D300 but it is working out to be a great camera, the D200 is a workhorse – great camera
Lens: Nikor 50mm f1.4 (great for low light conditions and very fast) Nikor VR 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 (my most popular used lens, good for wide angle and zoom shots. a little slower than i like but great if there plenty of light. used on all shoots also has the vibration reduction feature) Nikor 70-200mm VR f2.8 (gaining my favoritism quickly… this lens is great for portraits b/c of its depth of field. it’s a very fast lens: my main lens during a ceremony and concerts plus it also features the vibration reduction) Nikor 17-55mm f2.8 my new favorite lens of all time… extremely fast also with the wide angle and medium zoom. Great portrait lens.
Flash: Nikon SB800 (2) (great flash for all situations, on camera and off) Nikon SB600 (good entry level flash, mine is for sale if anyone wants to buy it… i have just out grown this one)
Miscellaneous: Pocket Wizzards (4) (this has single handily revolutionized my photographic experience. radio transmitters that i can connect to off camera flash units to produce a nice light to the subject. they are real handy for wedding receptions. great great addition) Sekonic Light Meter (i use this for portrait and studio shoots with controlled and constant lighting. helps to get the exposure right.) Lexar 4GB 133x (3) Lexar 2GB 133x (2) (i prefer the Lexar brand memory card, just have had good luck with those… very important, i would never go over 4GB on anyone one card b/c if one did happen to corrupt…that a lot of pictures that i just lost) Portable Studio Set with 2 hot lights – 2 8ft light stands – 1 boom light and 8ft stand : 2 12ft backdrop stands that can be adjusted from 7ft wide to 12ft wide with two backdrops (black and white)
Well people… thats about my equipment in a nutshell. Not sure if it interest you, but i enjoyed writing this!
Categories: Camera Tech & Tips
There are a lot of great photographers out and about in today’s age… especially thanks to the digital era (that is a whole different post in itself). Chase Jarvis, Paul Johnson and Dave Ziser are a few of my favorite photographers because their style and images just “wow” me. I consider myself a very good photographer and I am fairly technically sound when it comes to working the camera and adjusting to different situations on the fly. The general public has the assumption that when we snap the shutter release button the image is perfect. Which is actually the same frame of mind that I used to have when I first got started. I couldn’t understand for the life of me why a photographer would charge $2500 for a wedding or why a photographer would charge $100 for a sitting fee just to shot a few pictures. For those of you who share the same thoughts right now…. let me open your mind and show you the light to a photographers work load on an average shoot
I’m just going to start the “workload” story after the drive time, hours spent shooting, wear and tear on the equipment and the stress of getting everything right on the first go….. b/c lets face it…. it’s not like we can reschedule most weddings…. =). So now I have all my images on the cards and I have just backed them up in two different locations. Rule of thumb is…for every hour spent shooting… I spend about 2 hours in post production. For example: (eight hour wedding + sixteen hours in post production = 24 hours of total work). Anyway i proceed to go through and “cull” all of my shots. Culling is the process of closely and carefully examining each picture to decide if it makes the cut or not. I then go from culling all of my images down to the very best ones of the shoot to then the “color correcting” process. This probably is where most of the time is spent. I go through each individual image and color correct them. I probably could get away with not doing it on all the images, but this is that extra step that I feel like that I give to my clients that the other photographers in town do not (not calling any names). So if you figure a 1500 picture wedding or a 250 picture toddler shoot… there is a lot of color correcting going on. After the long process of coloring correcting I go to what I call the “artistic tweaking”. This to me is the fun part (well its all fun of course), I go through the pictures yet again and pick out some of my personal favorites and add some sort of artistic twist in them. These are the ones that give the “wow” factor to my pictures. The reason I pick out certain ones and not all of them… well let’s just say that the picture of posing with grandma is not going to wow you like the one of your emotional first dance. This is a quick scaled down version of my workload at the least. I hope you can now appreciate more the final images from me or any photographer at that.
Here are a couple of before and afters……
Categories: Photography Info
Welcome… my name is Scott Greene and this is my blog. I plan to share with you my shoots, events and just some fun aspects of my life on here. This is a nice complement to my website and the blog also allows the immediate glimpse into what is going on with my photography and design. I hope you enjoy and visit often.
ps- for those of you that do not know me… below are a couple of pictures of me. I tried to be a little artistically dramatic, not sure if it works well for me…lol
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