Wednesday, January 25. 20062006.01.22: Derks Bridal Fantasy 2006Derks Formals and Menswear commissioned Dong, Jonathan, and I to shoot Bridal Fantasy, one of the biggest bridal shows in western Canada on January 22nd. Two nearly-identical one-hour fashion shows ran while over two hundred exhibitors pitched their wares to couples-to-be. A complete gallery of photos taken from the event can be viewed here. Here are a few of my favourite photos selected from those which I shot.  I love the dress (available at Sposabella) but much beyond liking what I see I can't make much of a comment. The model, however, was in university when I was and was at a private function which I was commissioned to photograph Q4 2005. She is a friend of Manchi.  Children's bridal fashions.  Menswear by Derks. Coincidentally, this model attended my junior high.  A few pieces of confetti to go with the small wedding party. This photo was converted from RAW using a custom profile compiled for my specific camera to the ProphotoRGB colour space and was used for my subjective test of Carousel's Kodak RP30 photographic printer. I used it to test the blues.  Cakes by Janna. Every detail down to the last flower petal is hand crafted and edible.  Derks' display artist's favourite creation for the show. Some of my printing is featured in the top right corner . . . I was told that this printing would be draped and viewable from both sides. Had I known it was going to be backed with an opaque surface I would have recommended a more standard material, not my polyester weather-resistant mesh. Jonathan passed me his discs Tuesday morning. At the time of this entry's publication, Dong has not yet handed me his photos. Jonathan was shooting the Olympus E-1 with the 12-24/2.8-3.5 (I think) Digital Zuiko and the 150/2 which converts to a 300mm F/2 in 35mm capture area terms. Dong was shooting with the Nikon D70 and the Sigma 24-70/2.8. Between fashion shows, all three of us went to Kingsway and Dong purchased a Nikon D200 from McBain Camera. Aware of possible issues with an unmodified Sigma lens and the new dSLR, Dong used my 70-200/2.8 VR Nikkor and, subsequently, my 17-55/2.8 DX Nikkor to shoot with the new camera. He's been happy so far. The Sigma lens will have to be returned to depot for some sort of a modification. I was shooting the Nikon D2X w/ the 17-55/2.8 for the first half and I swapped between the 70-200/2.8 VR and the 10.5/2.8 DX fisheye for the second half and several of the photos of documenting the booths. One of my 2gig CF cards mysteriously vanished and I lent Jonathan my 512meg Extreme card so I was left with two 2gig CF cards. I later found my third 2gig card. I brought the Balcar AQ Pack, one umbrella, one softbox, and a Lighttools 50degree Soft Egg Crate to the show just in case I had time to properly set up lighting but I didn't get the chance. On a separate note, both Dong and I believe Jonathan should quit whining and just switch to Nikon. Lack of snappy AF and reliable metering is killing you, buddy. I don't think you'll find what you're looking for in the E-3. I don't know if you two are going to post your photos yourselves or not. If you want, send me your favourite photos scaled to 250pixel heights and I'll post them in this entry for you. Comments
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Very nice, K. Congratulations. Looks to me like "natural" fashion photography, not the artifical looking sort you find in the mags.
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2006-01-25 05:17
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I enjoyed this shoot a lot. The fashion shows were far from typical and the lighting was relatively easy to shoot in. Shooting live improv theatre is much more challenging. But whereas I have almost limitless freedom in the theatre, I had to watch out for the camera crews filming from behind me so I couldn't run around across the front of the stage too much or pop up and down to change elevation so virtually all shots were made from below eye-level.
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2006-01-25 05:28
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http://web.mac.com/ijfp/iWeb/Site/Bridal%20Fantasy%202006.html
Working on getting Joomla back up and running, you can check out some of my shots at that site for now.
-Jonathan
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Jonathan Puckrin
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2006-01-26 00:50
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Thanks for the gallery. =) Hey . . . if I start the slideshow on my computer the photos look fine but if I click on the individual photos I get some really weird blitter pattern with lots of white square flecks everywhere . . . check it out. Maybe it's just my machine but it's the first time that I've ever seen anything like it. Leanna says she's seen it before in some other photo gallery system.
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2006-01-26 23:54
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Nice shots, guys... looks like lots of available light...
Joomla (formerly Mambo) is the best! I do most of my sites with that...
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2006-01-26 23:47
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I like Joomla for CMS but as a blog system it's far from as good as it gets.
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2006-01-26 23:55
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K,
Checked it out on IE / Firefox on my PC looks fine, try d/ling Firefox and if it's still farked all change something, it's just output from Apple iWeb. Nothing fancy.
-Jonathan
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2006-01-27 00:24
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The blitter is still there on two different PC's in both the latest version of FireFox on one PC and a version of FireFox that I downloaded on my laptop several months ago . . . could be a PC thing . . . but most of the world is using PC's. =P Leanna said she saw something similar before in an MSN photo gallery. I had something similar happen in my portfolio fade applet . . . could be a Java thing.
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