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Journal Entry: Tue Sep 2, 2008, 7:36 PM
WORK.
I've been working most days on either my own projects to aid promotion of my photography and retouching to ad agencies, or actually getting in some work for a couple of ad agencies. Weekends sees me shooting for Club Blink and Trash nightclubs in the Valley, pushing the D3 into crazy ISO settings to shoot sans flash. Not much money in it for me but the lighting in there rocks and the atmosphere fun.

RANT.
I'm still waiting on shots from over half of the shooters from the Abbey Tournament team. While some of us had loaded the gallery in under a week, others are taking over a month to deliver any of their shots. Disappointed is not a strong enough word to describe how their lack of commitment, breach of signed team conditions, and friendly promises broken leave me. It's a piss poor effort and I'll submit recommendations to block some of them from shooting in the Abbey Photo Team again. It certainly separated the commercial shooters from the hobbyists.

I've handed the team over to :icongreykonos: to manage next year so that I can either shoot one day, swordfight the next, or should paid work land in my lap, not leave the team in the lurch. I expect he'll post the how to for joining the team some time after the Caloundra Music Festival, for which he runs another photography team.

PRINTS!
I just uploaded a print to my account at Redbubble

I'll load the low res version here as well.

ROCK!
Upcoming gigs, I'm shooting for Jeff Martin (former singer of The Tea Party) with drummer Wayne Sheehy in September, likely the same deal as last time, shots backstage, then right through the show and then maybe, if I am really lucky, more after the gig. Meeting with tour manager in a fortnight about shooting the tour for The Armada album release later in the year.

  • Mood: Relief
  • Listening to: damn workmen downstairs make a racket
  • Reading: books on marketing photographic business
  • Watching: how quickly Google's Chrome browser loads this
  • Playing: no, just working
  • Eating: home made veggie curry
  • Drinking: tea

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:icongrebbin:
I need those f2.8 glass as well.

Hopefully I can get what my colleague did, a $60000 cheque just for bonuses for last year. ;)

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"...because if all you do is surround yourself with negativity in your life and music, then you will become a self fullfilling prophecy and a miserable parasite on civilization. Love music, use suncreen and wear a condom. Father Oblivion has spoken."
SSV
:icond-eye:
nice wishlist :)

Just a side note for when you get one, the SB-900 is much larger than the SB-800, makes it harder to fit into bags as nicely as the 800 does.
:iconelffinarts:
I'm not surprised the 900 is larger as I hear it has the equiv performance as the 800 with the 5th battery clipped on. As for bags... I often don't use bags, so much of what I do, I have a clear idea of what I need and shoot light - 1 DSLR, one or maybe two lenses and one flash on a SC29 cable mounted on a side bracket. If I was shooting editorial then I'd be kitted up like crazy, lugging around half a portable studio all the time. I may one day go back to that style of shooting.

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photography by Mark Greenmantle @ www.greenmantle.biz
Brisbane based professional photography
:iconelffinarts:
Did I read you right? $60,000
DAMN! Photocontinental is hiring isn't it? lol

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photography by Mark Greenmantle @ www.greenmantle.biz
Brisbane based professional photography
:icond-eye:
This is a really crappy photo showing the size difference [link]
I keep meaning to try a decent product shot, but haven't gotten around to it yet :)

I'm surprised you don't shoot wireless instead of using the cable. I find even with the flash behind the camera there is still enough bounce back for the signal to get through.

I do the same thing when I know what I am going to shoot, but I tend to keep everything in one bag so I don't lose or break anything. the 900's size difference is very noticeable then and when it's on the camera.
:icongrebbin:
I don't work there anymore, I'm an Account Manager for an IT company now, my PA salary is like $100000, but colleauge had $300000 last year in total, what a monster.

--
"...because if all you do is surround yourself with negativity in your life and music, then you will become a self fullfilling prophecy and a miserable parasite on civilization. Love music, use suncreen and wear a condom. Father Oblivion has spoken."
SSV
:iconelffinarts:
The D3 does not have it's own flash to use as a commander, that i can deal with. Not having ANYTHING for illuminating subjects in the dark really shits me though. I need either an SB800, Sb900 or SU800 PLUS some slave units. Prefer the SB900 for the extra Lumen output and faster charge times. Back when I had just the D70, the flash size would have made a huge difference but the D3 is a tank, so a few extra grams won't phase me.

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photography by Mark Greenmantle @ www.greenmantle.biz
Brisbane based professional photography
:iconelffinarts:
Whoa... nice score dude. What kind of services are you selling?

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photography by Mark Greenmantle @ www.greenmantle.biz
Brisbane based professional photography
:icond-eye:
True that :) it is a bit noticeable on the 80 though. The improved controls over the 800 make it worth it though.
:iconarradius:
Blink and Trash are in qld now?

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