e.rose
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- Nashville, Tn
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- www.emilymcgonigle.com
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Y'all need to learn to appreciate the boys more.
Seriously.
You can be men and appreciate photos of other men. It's okay.
But, fine. Here's a girl. But I'm only posting this, because there is a story with it.
So I did a behind the scenes blog post about this on my website... but here is the REAL version:
This shoot was a f***ing disaster from the second it started.
So my friend assisted me on the shoot that day. We have this great thing going where I assist him... he assists me... somewhere along the way we stopped paying each other in real money and started paying each other in food, coffee, and beer.
It's cool. We're good friends. It works out.
He's also the one with all the gear and the reason I've been able to put my money towards splitting a studio rental with him, as well as towards some other miscellaneous gear, rather than having to shell out for lights, because he lets me use them whenever I want, as long as he's not shooting... or you know... forgets them somewhere, haha.
So the day of the shoot, my client is at my house getting her hair/makeup done by the makeup artist, and my friend texts me and super apologetically tells me that he forgot that his lighting gear is still at the studio. He didn't have time to get it, because he was supposed to meet us in 20 minutes.
Okay, not a big deal. I'm used to shooting with speedlights -- That's what I did before I met him, so no biggie. He brought his speedlights, I had mine, he brought his triggers, I had mine... I had stands, so did he, and I had an Apollo speedlight softbox.
Perfect.
So we get to the first spot, which was an indoor venue with a grand piano and we go to set up the lights and he realizes that the transmitter for his pocket wizards is in his lighting bag... at the studio.
Cool, no big deal. I get out my triggers.
We set everything up... go to do a test AAAAAAND..... nothing.
We change channels, change batteries, and then we realize my trigger isn't blinking.
The transmitter was dead.
IT'S OKAY. I have a spare battery.
So I grab the battery and I go to grab the tinyass screwdriver that you need to open up a Cactus transmitter aaaaaaaaand... it's in my old camera bag. Bag at the house. I bought a new camera bag and transferred ALMOST everything to the new one. Almost. But not quite.
IT'S OKAY. My friend had a leatherman with a phillips head screw-driver on it.............
..............that was too big.
So I'm stalling with my clients, joking about batteries, and he sets into McGuyver mode and gets the flashes to slave off on another while I'm buffering the awkward wait time with my clients, and SOMEHOW... even the flash inside the softbox was able to see the OCF bouncing off the ceiling.
AWESOME.
So we started shooting finally. I shot on my friends 5DMKIII, cause it's better than my 5DMKII, and I can.
Everything went really well from that point on.
We didn't quite get the sunflare look she wanted, because the ORIGINALLY grassy field we were going to shoot in, that I always get that look at, got mowed down. So I found another field, but the sun was blocked by some trees.
We made it work.
Exhausted I get home, glad it's over, but glad my clients enjoyed themselves.
I go to edit some images in Capture One, since I downloaded a trial and have been messing with it, and I notice that the file says .jpg.
I thought maybe I had imported them incorrectly, so I went to Lightroom where I had originally dumped my CF cards and the files said... .jpg.
In a panic, I messaged my friend and was like, "THESE ARE ALL F***ING IN JPG. HOW THE HELL DID THAT EVEN HAPPEN?!"
To which he responded, "WHAT?! WHY THE HELL ARE THEY IN JPG?!"
"I DUNNO, THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING YOU!!!"
"........[Insert Friend's Roommate's name]!!!! I BET HE TOOK MY CAMERA FOR REFERENCE PHOTOS AGAIN AND SWITCHED IT AND NEVER SWITCHED IT BACK! HE ALWAYS F***ING DOES THAT!!!!!"
Apparently that's EXACTLY what happened, and neither of us thought to check, because we both just ASSUMED that my friend was the last one to use his own camera, and he *always* shoots in raw. Except for those times his roommate takes his camera without his knowledge and forgets to flip it back from .jpg to raw, which has apparently happened a few times.
SO. Now I have the struggle of editing .jpgs of this session that ALREADY started off on the wrong foot.
It was the most frustrated I have ever been over a session, ever, ha.
BUT... I got this photo. And I really like it, haha.
The next session my friend and I did together, was yesterday and it went MUCH smoother. I even shot on his camera again (after we both checked 50 thousand times that it was set to raw, haha).
Seriously.
You can be men and appreciate photos of other men. It's okay.
But, fine. Here's a girl. But I'm only posting this, because there is a story with it.
So I did a behind the scenes blog post about this on my website... but here is the REAL version:
This shoot was a f***ing disaster from the second it started.
So my friend assisted me on the shoot that day. We have this great thing going where I assist him... he assists me... somewhere along the way we stopped paying each other in real money and started paying each other in food, coffee, and beer.
It's cool. We're good friends. It works out.He's also the one with all the gear and the reason I've been able to put my money towards splitting a studio rental with him, as well as towards some other miscellaneous gear, rather than having to shell out for lights, because he lets me use them whenever I want, as long as he's not shooting... or you know... forgets them somewhere, haha.
So the day of the shoot, my client is at my house getting her hair/makeup done by the makeup artist, and my friend texts me and super apologetically tells me that he forgot that his lighting gear is still at the studio. He didn't have time to get it, because he was supposed to meet us in 20 minutes.
Okay, not a big deal. I'm used to shooting with speedlights -- That's what I did before I met him, so no biggie. He brought his speedlights, I had mine, he brought his triggers, I had mine... I had stands, so did he, and I had an Apollo speedlight softbox.
Perfect.
So we get to the first spot, which was an indoor venue with a grand piano and we go to set up the lights and he realizes that the transmitter for his pocket wizards is in his lighting bag... at the studio.
Cool, no big deal. I get out my triggers.
We set everything up... go to do a test AAAAAAND..... nothing.
We change channels, change batteries, and then we realize my trigger isn't blinking.
The transmitter was dead.
IT'S OKAY. I have a spare battery.
So I grab the battery and I go to grab the tinyass screwdriver that you need to open up a Cactus transmitter aaaaaaaaand... it's in my old camera bag. Bag at the house. I bought a new camera bag and transferred ALMOST everything to the new one. Almost. But not quite.
IT'S OKAY. My friend had a leatherman with a phillips head screw-driver on it.............
..............that was too big.
So I'm stalling with my clients, joking about batteries, and he sets into McGuyver mode and gets the flashes to slave off on another while I'm buffering the awkward wait time with my clients, and SOMEHOW... even the flash inside the softbox was able to see the OCF bouncing off the ceiling.
AWESOME.
So we started shooting finally. I shot on my friends 5DMKIII, cause it's better than my 5DMKII, and I can.
Everything went really well from that point on.
We didn't quite get the sunflare look she wanted, because the ORIGINALLY grassy field we were going to shoot in, that I always get that look at, got mowed down. So I found another field, but the sun was blocked by some trees.
We made it work.
Exhausted I get home, glad it's over, but glad my clients enjoyed themselves.
I go to edit some images in Capture One, since I downloaded a trial and have been messing with it, and I notice that the file says .jpg.
I thought maybe I had imported them incorrectly, so I went to Lightroom where I had originally dumped my CF cards and the files said... .jpg.
In a panic, I messaged my friend and was like, "THESE ARE ALL F***ING IN JPG. HOW THE HELL DID THAT EVEN HAPPEN?!"
To which he responded, "WHAT?! WHY THE HELL ARE THEY IN JPG?!"
"I DUNNO, THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING YOU!!!"
"........[Insert Friend's Roommate's name]!!!! I BET HE TOOK MY CAMERA FOR REFERENCE PHOTOS AGAIN AND SWITCHED IT AND NEVER SWITCHED IT BACK! HE ALWAYS F***ING DOES THAT!!!!!"
Apparently that's EXACTLY what happened, and neither of us thought to check, because we both just ASSUMED that my friend was the last one to use his own camera, and he *always* shoots in raw. Except for those times his roommate takes his camera without his knowledge and forgets to flip it back from .jpg to raw, which has apparently happened a few times.
SO. Now I have the struggle of editing .jpgs of this session that ALREADY started off on the wrong foot.
It was the most frustrated I have ever been over a session, ever, ha.
BUT... I got this photo. And I really like it, haha.
The next session my friend and I did together, was yesterday and it went MUCH smoother. I even shot on his camera again (after we both checked 50 thousand times that it was set to raw, haha).
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