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Wedding Photography Assistants’ Duties and Responsibilities
The role of the assistant is a very important and can help make the wedding day an enjoyable and successful experience for the client and photographer. The assistant is hired to aide both the photographers and the clients.
- Arrive ready, prepared, and on-time.
- Review the equipment that is packed for the shoot.
- Review the itinerary for the day.
- Be agreeable, congenial, and respectful .
- Turn your phone OFF……….No Texting, you should be thinking about the shoot and not personal communications.
- Be attentive to the needs of the wedding principles and help as you can.
- Become familiar with cameras and lenses to be used, We do not want to hear that “I shoot Nikon.”
- Set up studio lights and arrange cords for safety.
- Make sure candles are lit for group shots.
- You are responsible for the dress in every shot.
- Be ready to help with the children in the group shots.
- Never sit down, especially during the main events (ie group shots, portraits, reception events)
- Take care of your own personal needs, (ie eat a hearty breakfast and bring snacks if necessary) There may or may not be a chance to stop and eat. This is simply the nature of the job.
- Be alert and quick on your feet. If you know what is coming next, prepare for it.
- After the wedding, we will be leaving the church, so gather the tools and get ready to move.
- It is the assistants’ responsibility to get all the gear back into the car.
- Be aware of the schedule and the progress of the shoot, know what time it is.
- Be fully involved in the process and the progress, be creative and be ready to offer creative solutions if asked.
- Understand that finally, it is the photographers’ responsibility for making the client happy.
- Prove that you are an asset to the team and you will be compensated.
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We had some great work in Classes at UCM Photo. I wanted to share a few of the top gun shooters in my classes.
The first is Sabrina Guzman, she has a sense of style and art that is remarkable.
Mathew Taylor shoots more than any other student. He has captured inspiring views of a variety of subjects.
This is the second time I features the work of Phil Campbell who graduates tomorrow. Here are a few shots from his High Key with a Kick and a fashion show shot.
Christine Carreira produced some sophisticated model work for her Editorial Photography Class.
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AB MAX – Here is an announcement of new products made on the Alien Bee Discussion Forum
- Eight stop power range.
- Digital controls.
- Plug in slot for Cybersync.
- Brighter modeling light.
- Built in diffuser makes for precise viewing as it unifies the modeling light and flash tube.
- Global power options.
- Ability to run on low cost inverter/battery combination.
“Introducing AB MAX. This product line was developed to take
AlienBees above and beyond the very highest performance monoflash
units offered anywhere at any price. Please see attached pictures and
specifications for the global plug and play product line. Please note
that ABMAX can be powered by inexpensive non pure-sinewave inverters
and that it uses approximately ½ the battery power per flash as
conventional flash units. We are in final testing stages of pre-
production AB MAX units now and expect to begin taking pre-orders on
June 1 and begin shipping products on July 1.”
The New AB MAX
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From: Joe Miller [mailto:Joe@CarrilloPhotography.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 10:10 PM
To: Jerry Schmidt
Subject: RE: What Flash Offset settings did you use??
Hi Jerry,
I’ve made hypersync work with two distinct setups. The first one is using a MiniTT1 on my 1DmkIII, and a FlexTT5 on the flash. This works out of the box with an AB1600, an AB800, and a Vivitar 28HV. I haven’t tested specifically with my Sunpak 120j.
The other setup uses the MiniTT1 as the transmitter, with Plus IIs as the receivers. This required firmware adjustments. The first step was to check the “High Speed Sync Disable Mode) box in the sync timing tab. My offset is -1900. I can only get 1/4000s clean.
Basically, when using ControlTL channels, I don’t need to configure anything. It works to 1/8000 out of the box. Using the legacy Plus II channels, I have to customize the firmware, and I can only get to 1/4000, clean. I should also note that I haven’t tried this with my 20D yet.
I shot formals for a Quinceanera yesterday, at noon in the blazing sun, using lots of hypersynced lights. It’s definitely usable. I’m going to post some on Flickr shortly.
Joe Miller
Carrillo Photography
(760) 473-5399
http://www.carrillophotography.com/
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Strobist:
AB1600, umbrella’ed, to camera left.
AB800, 7 inch reflector, to right, filling in the background.
1/4000s @ f/2.8
Flickr post describing how he used the new Pocket Wizard in Hypersync Mode to trigger his Pocket Wizard Plus II units.
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Check out the snooted Canon strobes used to shoot fashion, looks interesting.
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Brian Matsumoto, our long time friend and Canon rep was in town this week to meet a Forum class and just our luck we had an exhibition of Gallery Wrapped prints from our first Canvas Print Workshop. We made these prints with the Canon imagePROGRAF iPF6100. This printer was part of a fantastic donation to UCM from the Canon Corporation.
Brian Matsumoto at UCM Canvas Printing Workshop Exhibition 2009
The new twelve color printer made some amazing prints of the students and faculty images. The participants printed, coated, and stretched these prints as part of the workshop. I am sure the next time we do this workshop we will have many more participants… the results were amazing.
By the way, I shot this with a with wireless TTL using two Canon 580ex flashes.
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Here is a quick shot with the new Mini TT1 Flex TT5 used to trigger a Canon 580exII flash on a stand to the right. I had to adjust the flash exposure to -1 2/3 to fine tune the High Speed Flash exposure.
High Speed Flash by Jerry Schmidt
2009:04:15 12:20:34
70-200mm @ 200mm
1/8000 sec, f/5.6
Mode: Manual
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 400
AF mode: One-shot AF
Drive: Single frame shooting
White balance: Auto
Flash: External E-TTL High speed sync
Flash exp comp: -1 1/3
File size: 11.5MB
Image size: 2912 x 4368
Color space: sRGB
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: 0
Contrast: Normal
Custom Functions:
Default settings
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