Pictures, aieee!

[tugrik]

After a busy set of months (socially and work-wise) and much procrastination, they finally told me: have the pics hand-over-able by this coming Saturday (the 'firing party' convention wrapup). Time to motivate.

850 pictures had become ~700 before this week began; I'd just been picking at them occasionally, nothing more. Monday that becamse ~400 left. Tonight it's down to 180. I should be done with them tomorrow night. I'd finish more tonight but I'm getting a wicked case of googly-screen-eyes. If I tried to keep going, there'd be a whole bunch of pictures with very wonky levels and croppings.

The good:

• There's definately more than one good picture of each subject; nobody who showed for the shoot is getting left out by bad shots.


• The color balance is pretty good; the ambient room lighting didn't affect things as bad as last year


• No blatantly obvious technical foulups

The bad:

• The 28-185/IS lens that I used this year is definately not as sharp as the 50mm/1.4 prime I borrowed from reality_fox and used/broke last year. The result is slightly softer pictures throughout the set. Grump.


• I should have realized the overhead flash was making things worse, not better. Actually, I did... but I should have realized it sooner. The pictures of those on the 2nd day are far better than those on the first, as a result.


• Before next convention, I need to buy and learn how to properly use a flash meter. Using the preview screen on the camera back isn't cutting it. My exposures were all over the range. Salvageable... but at a slight loss of dynamic range.

Overall I think folks will be pleased with the pics this year. By Saturday I'll have the ones that folks gave permission for CD-publishment delivered to the folks at the wrap party for inclusion on the convention DVD. By the end of the weekend I should have the private web site up and will be emailing out passwords to the shoot-participants over the next week. At the wrap party itself I hope to get a definitive answer on who will be hosting the 'public' website so everybody can see the pics (for those who gave permission for public display: about 90% of them). Putting that one up is trivial once the 'who pays for the bandwidth' question is answered. Lastly, and this one will be probably the following month, I'll work on snailmailing the requested CDRs and images to those who didn't want to get them email/web only.

So... any one of my more artistic friends want to help me make a CD-label for said mailed-out CD's? :)

Comments

[octantis.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. what kind of design would you like for the CD label?