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11/04/2010 12:05:29 PM · #1 |
a week ago today one of my very best friends was in a car accident. She broke her neck, back in two places, shattered her arm, and has severe brain swelling. She was life flighted to Tyler Texas and is in critical condition but is showing signs of improvement daily. This morning she opened her eyes, she isn't following anything or looking at anything but she opened them. yesterday she wiggled her toes and gave a small thumbs up from the dr's command. this is great progress for her injuries.
I have always loved the camera, and anyone who knows me knows that, When I first got my Cannon she was a main supporter of get out and try. she volunteered me to shoot a junior golf tour ( free of course, even though they wanted me to charge.. i'm far from that yet)
they are throwing together a benefit in east Texas to help with her medical bills and give her two kids a Christmas. Melanie was/is a hair dresser and there-for insurance isn't really there.. I was asked to so maybe some Santa pictures at the benefit, but am not sure how to throw this all together. can I get some ideas and help from you guys?
my budget fund is pretty low as I have 2 kids of my own just had a 7th birthday for one last week and the others is in DEC plus Christmas.. so Ideas need to be low cost..
thanks,
Monica |
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11/04/2010 12:49:16 PM · #2 |
| Sounds like a great time to setup a photobooth, family Christmas cards, that sort of thing. |
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11/04/2010 04:32:35 PM · #3 |
Hi, Monica. I'm sorry to hear about your friend. I hope she recovers fully. I'm sure it's very stressful for everyone.
It's not clear from your post what you are looking for. Technical advice, pose suggestions, or maybe how to rent lighting on a budget?
Do they want photos of the guests taken with Santa? If the party is decorated, maybe you can use the decorations as an existing backdrop. If it's during the day, you might be able to get by with window light, or even if at night you can shoot with the existing light if your camera lets you crank up the ISO. Do you own a flash unit?
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11/04/2010 04:47:58 PM · #4 |
Steve,  yo_spiff did a shoot for his company that took Christmas portraits at the party. A camera connected to a computer, someone to easy process them and then drop them inside a frame, send to printer on photo paper and you've got a winner. Christmas pictures on the spot for a card or just a memento.
Just a thought. If you don't take to long in processing, it might not be too difficult especially if you can get someone to help you.
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11/04/2010 04:55:25 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by cowtownmom:
Steve, yo_spiff did a shoot for his company that took Christmas portraits at the party. A camera connected to a computer, someone to easy process them and then drop them inside a frame, send to printer on photo paper and you've got a winner. Christmas pictures on the spot for a card or just a memento.
Just a thought. If you don't take to long in processing, it might not be too difficult especially if you can get someone to help you. |
I was thinking along the same lines. Perhaps you can get a company to donate paper and/or toner.
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11/04/2010 05:15:28 PM · #6 |
That sounds like a great idea. NOt sure exactly what's needed. Would need to perhaps get Spiff involved. He's done this sort of thing for work before. I know that he set up a back drop. Had a computer set up that never quite worked out. But my thought is get something set up in a way that they can walk out with a picture. They will probably spend more money that way with perhaps an option for delivery later. Or if you can't process things there then get them to fill out an envelope that it can be mailed back to them in a day or two.
Then for set up, use of templates that you can drop a picture into or a photo christmas card that you can print and drop a picture into. If you use a pre-purchased card, try to get them wholesale or discounted to cut down on costs. See if you can get a sponsor for a photo booth that will cover the costs.
Hope this helps.
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11/04/2010 06:24:19 PM · #7 |
| thank you guys for the help! I guess i'm looking for how to thow a cheep back ground together. i'm not to spiffy at this. and beeing that I'm not what do you charge? i use fullcolor when i print things so for under 5 dollars i can print an 8x10, 2 5x7 and 8 wallets. so I planned on doing that their turn around is usually 2-3 days and Melanie was a hair dresser so the shop will have the photos there for the people to pick up. what kind of price do you charge for this though, again it's not for profit for me at all it's all for her bills and to help the kids have a christmas ( she has 2) so far we had a few business donate briskets and other food items that they are doing a bbq. and a silent auction. |
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11/04/2010 06:57:14 PM · #8 |
The reason the tethered shooting didn't work out at the company xmas party was that they were using a version of the Canon EOS utility that came with the 50D and shooting with a Rebel XT/350D which is supported by a different version. Once the finally allowed me to look at the computer and figure out the problem, It only took me a couple of minutes to identify the problem. They ended up not doing it anyway, because IT couldn't provide them a color printer to print the pictures on the spot. Seems the HR people I was helping with this project did not realize I work for the division that sells these things:
I could have easily wheeled a nice fast color printer down there if they had told me.
Anyway, for taking the pics, I brought down 2 lightstands with umbrellas. A bargain bin vivitar flash was mounted on each one, with optical triggers. Put a hotshoe flash on the camera, pointed at the ceiling, (to provide some diffused light and trigger the other flashes. Here's the setup:
I did a couple of test shots and dialed in the manual exposure on the other person's rebel. The she took the Santa shots while I roamed around the xmas party looking for more fun human interest shots. The big drawback of the optical triggers in this sort of environment is that ANY flash on ANY camera will set off the strobes. If we do it again this year, I will be using some cheap radio triggers and providing the printer.
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11/07/2010 11:27:21 PM · #9 |
Was reading about Help Portraits and one of the area events from last year used the tethered system, They said that they serviced over 700 portraits that day. Steve had some problems with this concept but got it worked out even though they didn't use it. They printed them there probably using some thing like the easy share photo printer by Kodak. Simplicity would be the solution here. Being able to streamline the processing would be essential.
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