PrimaryCanary
TPF Noob!
Dear Forum,
I recently was hired to professionally cover my first sporting event. It was a high school district wrestling tournament (for those of you not familiar, this is an event where every school assigned to a "district" bring their wrestler's to compete against each other to determine who is "best" in his/her respective weight class). There were 10 schools all together and well over 200 wrestlers. I did my best to prepare for the event. I invested in a Mitsubishi dye-sub printer that made 5x7 prints on the spot, I had a monitor to display a slide show of the images I had captured throughout the day, I had my marketing set-up, including business cards, sample prints, flyers, etc. All in all, I think everything went smooth for this being my first big event.
Some background:
I shoot with Canon equipment (EOS 20D is my main body)
Now my questions are these:
1.) Is there any good software out there (isn't this a silly question?) that will produce slide shows for RAW images? I used Bridge CS3, but it started crapping out on me when I had 1,000 images rolling. I shoot in RAW due to lighting restraints, I use a 580 EX II flash, but sometimes the images need slight tweaking due to indoor lighting problems. If I shoot in jpg I loose a lot of leeway. I can't easily convert to jpg on the fly because there are 125-200 shots coming in at a time. That'd take way too long to convert.
2.) Does anyone else shoot events and offer prints on the spot? Would you be willing to share your setup details with me? I had one monitor displaying a slide show because my laptop can only use 2 screens simultaneously. This seemed to work until the slide show took well over a 1/2 hour to complete. Parents would be watching and "oooo-ing and ahhhhing" and then either the mom or father would walk up and the other would say "You just missed it, so and so was just on there" and they would have to wait for it to loop. Does anyone know of a way to run more than 1 monitor from a laptop? Say perhaps 5 or 6 each displaying it's own slide show (ie. monitor 1 would be at image 1, monitor 2 on image 80, monitor 3 on image 150, etc)
3.) Has anyone dabbled with the WFT-E2 wireless transmitter for Canon? Will it work with my 20D? and if so, is it worth it?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Primary Canary
I recently was hired to professionally cover my first sporting event. It was a high school district wrestling tournament (for those of you not familiar, this is an event where every school assigned to a "district" bring their wrestler's to compete against each other to determine who is "best" in his/her respective weight class). There were 10 schools all together and well over 200 wrestlers. I did my best to prepare for the event. I invested in a Mitsubishi dye-sub printer that made 5x7 prints on the spot, I had a monitor to display a slide show of the images I had captured throughout the day, I had my marketing set-up, including business cards, sample prints, flyers, etc. All in all, I think everything went smooth for this being my first big event.
Some background:
I shoot with Canon equipment (EOS 20D is my main body)
Now my questions are these:
1.) Is there any good software out there (isn't this a silly question?) that will produce slide shows for RAW images? I used Bridge CS3, but it started crapping out on me when I had 1,000 images rolling. I shoot in RAW due to lighting restraints, I use a 580 EX II flash, but sometimes the images need slight tweaking due to indoor lighting problems. If I shoot in jpg I loose a lot of leeway. I can't easily convert to jpg on the fly because there are 125-200 shots coming in at a time. That'd take way too long to convert.
2.) Does anyone else shoot events and offer prints on the spot? Would you be willing to share your setup details with me? I had one monitor displaying a slide show because my laptop can only use 2 screens simultaneously. This seemed to work until the slide show took well over a 1/2 hour to complete. Parents would be watching and "oooo-ing and ahhhhing" and then either the mom or father would walk up and the other would say "You just missed it, so and so was just on there" and they would have to wait for it to loop. Does anyone know of a way to run more than 1 monitor from a laptop? Say perhaps 5 or 6 each displaying it's own slide show (ie. monitor 1 would be at image 1, monitor 2 on image 80, monitor 3 on image 150, etc)
3.) Has anyone dabbled with the WFT-E2 wireless transmitter for Canon? Will it work with my 20D? and if so, is it worth it?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Primary Canary