So, I made it through the day, it was a great festival and had so many wonderful guests and staff. After all the discussions about the changed world from the 70's to now, I could not help but notice so many 70's like dangers everywhere I looked, maybe its one of the nice things about Holland for me. No one got hurt, so it all worked out.
If you want to see the day here is the link to the google page they made, I'll let you guess which group of images is my work...
https://profiles.google.com/festival5dfotografie/photos
The most useful advice was to keep in mind what my employer wanted from my images, with that specific requirement all I needed to do was find the right moment around the festival to capture it. It was a long day, 11am to 8pm so I had more than enough time to find my shots. The rain held off, until 5 minutes after I got home! Yay!
I tried to shoot from low at times, occasionally from high (as an American would, I almost broke my neck standing on a semi-stable concrete block), and both portraits and landscapes. The area was fairly spread out so there were not very many thick crowds, but I did find a few at some music performances and tried to fill the frame with people. I think I only cropped three of the shots I used in case they choose to print them. I did make sure to get the famous personalities and special acts as best I could. Don't think I got any dog shots, those that were there were working as helper dogs and were pretty busy and being good and workdog like. Only used my 24-70mm for the day.
I like Skips verb list of "ings" I mainly found and shot for laughing, smiling, clapping, playing, and some eating. My goal: Happy people having a great day, lets go next year!
Once it got later and I felt I had most of my shots I started to camp areas to try to wait for interesting subjects, also I needed to sit a bit. I did use a full 8GB card and a full charged battery as well, both made it about 8 of 9 hours before I had to swap them out. And as far as being able to chat and break the ice at times, well, my Dutch has finally improved to the point I can talk simple stuff, but even a small child speaks much better Dutch than I do... But I was mostly able to understand and speak with the guests, sure sometimes I smiled and nodded, but generally I understood, I think...
My only added advice for anyone doing event covering gigs is to use the question I always ask my event customers: "What is the one perfect shot that you are hoping to get from today?" If I can get close to that, I know I have succeeded.
All in all a great day, thanks once again for all the advice and encouragement, and a big *DPC hug*! |
