Friday Four, #14
Sunset Fields
Crud. I kinda forgot about this today. I'm actually heading out to Banner Marsh, southwest of Peoria for the rest of the day to shoot some landscapes and nighttime long exposures so it's now or never. Let's see how fast I can write...
1. I guest blogged for someone yesterday - my very first time ever as a guest blogger. She of course got what she paid for. It was kind of fun but the pressure - oh the pressure. I'd be happy to guest blog for any of you of course - if any of you could afford me... I promise to go for the cheap laugh - and then say something nice about you. Prices start at $10.
2. We're off to big Michigan next week, so my Friday Four will be from the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island next time. Looking forward to the drive - it's always beautiful. Maybe I'll figure out a way to reinvent myself on the way up. It seems better then waiting for the drive home. I'm also looking very forward to some early morning island photography in what should be pretty peak fall color. Yummy. Oh - and that murder mystery thing...
3. I signed a contract to shoot my first Cat gig as a freelancer today. It's for a good group of people and right up my alley shooting-wise so it should go pretty well. Doing it the first weekend in November. I'd love to land about 6-10 of these next year - imagine all the good gear I could buy then. I am renting a few lenses for this gig - nice and much faster then my stuff. Renee Byer, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2007, spoke at Bradley last night and I was in the audience and snapped a few pics - at 3200 ISO. That's incredibly high for my camera. If you don't look at it too big it looks okay - but if you see it closer - well you can see what digital noise looks like... Faster lenses... Faster lenses...
4. The pic: A gorgeous cloud night in Tazewell County on Wednesday night - I caught this cornfield/soybean field at just about the last possible minute.