t’s been an incredibly busy month, so I didn’t really get around to posting. However, I couldn’t let the “Day of the Beast” (June 6, 2006) go by without a post or two.
First off, I haven’t been doing much shooting outside of weddings this past month, but I do have a photo from a quick, off-the-cuff shoot with a new-to-Vancouver model, Sera Lys McArthur.
She recently relocated here from New York. There’s not much more to say other than I’m really looking forward to working with her again in the future.
In other news, we tore a shutter curtain on our Canon 1D Mark II last weekend, so it’s gone in for repair.
Honestly, it couldn’t have happened at a better time since we have a break from weddings until the end of the month. Fingers crossed for a quick repair and a reasonable price.
It’s kind of funny because the day before, the camera officially became mine—I bought out my lease that Friday. It’s also kind of funny that it tore though. That camera is rated for 200,000 actuations, but we’re lucky if we’ve hit much over 100,000. (119,069, to be exact—I went and checked!) Saturday was a super bright day, and we were pulling shutters between 1/4000 and 1/8000 to maintain a shallow depth of field, so I suppose the strain was too much.
This isn’t my first experience with a torn curtain, though. My Canon 10D tore one within the first three days of owning it. After some yelling at McBain, they exchanged it for a new one, so I’m feeling kind of nonchalant about this incident.
On another note, we’re getting Telus TV on trial next Tuesday, so I’ll finally have live TV to go with the entertainment computer downstairs. That means Hockey Night BBQ at our house—if the Oilers don’t choke and lose the series early.
Anyway, I need to get back to wedding post-processing for a bit, and then it’s off to bed for me!