The midterm was designed as a photo shoot for two teams of students. One team acted as the photographer and assistant while the other team served as the Digital Tech. Roles were then reversed. Everyone had a turn in the hot seat at the "tech".
It was quite an experience. I was lucky to work with Anne, Carole, Elizabeth, and Karen. We brought food and music and tried to make ourselves as comfortable as possible. Anne, Carole and Elizabeth were arrived first and started setting up. Karen and I had to drive back from our visit to Rob Greer's Studio, and didn't arrive until about 1pm. We finished about 9pm. It was quite a day.
Carole secured a great model. Anne hung in with us all day. She willing changed into costume after costume and kept the energy going until we said "It's a wrap".
I took the first turn to shoot. Karen was my Art Director. She called on her experience as a dance instructor to work directly with Anne - it was electric.
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Getting all the lighting and equipment was a bit of a challenge. We discovered that there were no modeling lights on the equipment in Studio I. But of course that didn't stop an innovative team like ours.
The first problem we ran into was the program was not capturing the images - we tried to think of all the reasons why this wold happen but in the end it was a very simple problem that had nothing to do with the software - or the computer. The sync cord was bad. When we found a good cord everything worked as planned. The set up the structure to insure the photos would be pulled into the right folders. The
had a little problem finding the folders but developed a work around that was successful.
When it was my turn to tech, I took a deep breath. I'm not sure I could have searched out an answer to the problem. So it was just perfect that during my turn as tech, no new problems emerged. Maybe I can set the camera up and do a little tethered shooting every Tuesday after class...
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