Edmonton Fun

I'm in Edmonton for the next few days and will be back in the office next Wednesday. Hope you all have a great weekend and we'll leave you with this funny:

A Mighty Wind

"You could say mom was overly protective - I just like to think she cared about me, which she did, a lot. And I was a member of the chess team and whenever we would have chess tournaments I had to wear a protective helmet, I had to wear a football helmet. Now who knows what she was thinking? Maybe she thought that we might have fallen maybe and impaled our heads on a pointy bishop or something, I don't know. "

What a great movie.

Styles

Hope you all checked out the series we did on wedding photography styles over on the W-List Blog.
Hopefully it's a benefit to clients, giving them the verbiage to describe the coverage and look one might be after. Check it out.

BBQ Weather

Well we are finally warming up here in Southern Manitoba, so my wife and I fired up the BBQ yesterday and cooked some wonderful rib eye steaks with baked potatoes and broccoli

Man what a treat that was.

Go out and enjoy the warmth.

Photographic Styles

Got some good information on wedding photography styles happening at the W-List Blog by yours truly.

Just wanted to give names to the different styles to help potential brides in their quest for images that suit their taste and fancy. Check it out.

I'm missing Real Cameras...

In this world of digital cameras with multiple menus I sometimes forget how great some of the older film cameras were to photograph with. I miss and long for real dials and controls that just made sense and made for faster shooting.

Ken Rockwell wrote this about the Pentax 645N:

The Pentax 645N is a real camera. Everything just works. Pick it up and you're shooting. Forget reading the instruction manual; it's awful. There are no menus; everything has its own knob, as it should.

The 645N allows exposure compensation in third stops, has an auto exposure lock and manual metering reads to thirds of a stop with a six-stop range bar graph! This outdoes anything from Nikon or Canon.

Top, Pentax 645N.

The 645N is even easier to use than today's Nikons, and a lot easier to use than today's Canons.

To set the various exposure modes, just move the aperture ring and shutter dials. If a dial is set to a shutter speed or aperture, you get what you set. If one of the dials is set to A, the Pentax 645N sets that automatically. If both are set to A, you're in Professional (previously called Program) mode. If both are set to speeds and apertures, you're in manual mode. There is no need for an old-fashioned mode selector as Nikon and Canon still have to use.

Check the five green marks above, and you're ready to shoot. From the top left, the green settings are A on the lens aperture, 0 exposure compensation, 0 exposure bracketing, A on the shutter speed dial (which gets you the Professional exposure mode with the A setting on the lens), and [*] below the shutter dial to set Matrix metering. Don't forget to turn on the power, which shows in red.

Well said Ken, some things were just better in the 'the good ole' days.'

Funny Stuff

Thought this video was great and so true to how people think today.