Mass producing

In October, the camera club I belong to is planning to do a fundraiser that involves taking and printing event photos on the spot. The logistics of this have been bothering me since the idea was first mentioned, mainly because none of us have any experience doing that sort of thing and many of us barely have any computer experience at all. Over the weekend, I was able to play around with a tethered setup which was actually surprisingly easy to set up. By running the EOS Utility in the background which directs images to a specific folder, I could automatically import them into Lightroom using the monitored folder feature. I do need to purchase a longer camera cable (which I found out is called usb to usb mini) because the one that comes with the camera isn’t very helpful if I don’t want to carry the laptop on my back.

I also began experimenting with a lighting setup that I thought might be neat. We’ll be shooting (still) motorcycles against a backdrop of rather pathetic and sparse trees  so I was thinking this technique that I read about on Strobist  (and also here ) of underexposing in camera and then pushing the exposure with flash might look kind of cool and also minimize the not-so-great backdrop. I need to borrow some additional 580s and work on using a complete setup before October comes!