Further

To add to the wonderful day of free shooting done last Tuesday in Fernie and area. The friend who I went with sent me this image last night. It was taken while we were scouting locations for a wedding that he is the main photographer and I am the secondary. This should be fun as I have never been the second shooter at a wedding before.

OK so I need a haircut and I have to stop frowning!

Grilled cheese

So I am standing here making grilled cheese sandwiches and fruit cocktail for my boys to take to daycare tomorrow. It is my one day of the week to get stuff done that cannot be done while they are at home. Usually I will go for coffee with a friend and we will talk photography for a couple of hours. But lately I have been really cutting back on my coffee intake and I have found that it has really calmed me down. I used to drink about a pot of coffee a day and some days I could actually see my hands shake (not good for a photographer). Now I find I am much calmer and more aware of my surroundings. Oops gotta check on the sandwiches! OK they are fine in case you were wondering. I have also been thinking about my photography. Last week I went out taking personal images with my coffee friend. See below post. And I loved it. Some of the shots are on my flickr site.

I need to do more of this type of photography. I also enjoy the commercial work that I do and would like to do more of it. Don't get me wrong I still enjoy photographing weddings but there are so many photographers in this area who will photograph a wedding for next to nothing to get the exposure, not thinking long term which investments that are needed to maintain equipment.
I am sure I will figure it out by the time I am too old to do this anymore.
Oh the sandwiches are done!

Imagine

Just imagine for a moment that you have hired a professional to photograph your wedding day or a release of a new commercial product. You are now looking at a video of one of the above. You pause the movie and say "I would love to have that photograph hanging on our wall." or "We could use that image on our packaging or website or brochure" But this is video and the quality of video stills is horrid. No longer! The technology is currently there to give professional DSLR quality from video. 12 megapixel resolution from a video camera. So you can have the best of both worlds as early as next year. Not 5 or 10 years from now, next year. And I am not talking about what Nikon and Canon are playing with with their new crop of DSLRs that happen to offer a bit of video, I am talking about RED.
All this means is that a new name for these camera operators. Will they be called phodeographers, vidotographers, or if they are also journalists will they be called phodeojournalists. I am sure that someone with way too much time on their hands will think up a new name for this new era.