Get It Off Workshop

This past Saturday Doug Levy and I held the Get It Off workshop in Sharon Ma at Gallery in the Square.

The spots filled up fast and expectations were high so Doug and I had some long nights trying to come up with the simplest ways to explain some rules and limits of Flash photography without just bolt pointing them in power point. The room was small yes, but that didn't stop a group of 12 awesome photographers from connecting with each other and feeling a little more comfortable about flashing.


Here is a snap of me doing a simple demo on how curtain sync works and FP/High speed sync


Special thanks to Melissa Coe for sharing the following shots of us in action:

A little bit about angles of light and Short Light Broad Light. Demo with an Alien Bee modeling light


Doug modeling for some hard light examples



Thanks to everyone that came out and listened to us "talk show hosts" go back and forth for the day. We would also like to thank Michael Bossin, owner of the gallery for allowing access to the space and his tireless supporter of the local arts scene. And our awesome local sponsor Paul at LensProToGo, who donoated a free rental to one lucky Get It Offers (Meg Belanger)




Here is what some of the Get It Offers said about the workshop (got to love Twitter and Facebook for instant feed back).


"Get It Off was AWESOME - thanks so much!" Erin Chapman

"I definitely learned a lot and had fun too!" Nelly Soares

"I'm just grateful I got to get it of with James and Doug ;) (sorry Kate)!" Melissa Coe

"The workshop was great - thank you so much!" Jenn Sellon

"Thanks for the great workshop today. Look forward to keeping in touch." Mark Andy Higgins



xoxo
The Feds

Weekend Away In Snowy NH.

This past weekend we took a break from the busy wedding stuff, i.e. leads, marketing, etc. and had some quality family time. And when I say family I mean 7 kids under the age of 13yrs. and 8 adults... yikes that's a lot good thing it's a big place. It was -10 degrees on the ride up to NH, I never thought my car temperature reader actually would show a negative. On day two it was -28 degrees without figuring in the windchill, yikes again. My mother in law suggested this was a good day to take the kids skiing (-28degrees) but surprisingly it didn't feel cold, trust me we were dressed for the weather. We spent the day on the bunny hill with both girls, it was Layla's second year skiing and Annabelle's first. They both loved the Lady Bug, a conveyor belt thing that brings the kids up a slight hill. Layla was cross country skiing by the end of the weekend and Annabelle was begging to go up the chair lift by Sunday (she can barely stand on skis yet) We had some adult time and played a little poker, FYI if you play poker with me then watch out for my poker face.... I tend to giggle, oohhhaaahhh and smile uncontrollably when I am dealt a good hand, it's pathetic. The last day was spent making giant snow ramps for the kids to fly off of at the end of a huge snow slide. It was some well needed fun in the snow! Here's a video of the girls at the lodge playing around after a long day of skiing.

Pug weclomes Anne Ruthmann

Pizza, Soda and Anne Ruthman... is a fun PUG. We welcomed our first PUG with Anne has our new leader and she did a great job. :) After about an hour of mingling with lots of new faces, we moved up to a classroom at the CDIA in Waltham. Anne discussed the importance of calendar sharing, something only a few of us are doing right now. She went through how to set up a google calendar and after many questions, Anne closed up the night with some PUG announcements, and then a group of us went out to get some brownie sundaes and chocalate milk.... I know aren't we party animals at a bar at 11pm drinking chocalate milk ;) Some new comers to the PUG were Jeff Newcomb, Earl Christie, Karen from Kielka Brown, British Rob from Brown photographic and more. It was great to see a large outcome and I hope everyone returns next month so the "regulars" increases in size. Don't forget to see Anne at Mystic this weekend!

The room was hot and packed. Looks like Doug has some pizza :)


The group of us are always trouble in the back of the room. Here are two of the trouble makers Kate(from MKD) and Shyla

SURPRISE!

We have been a little preoccupied this holiday season as we found out that baby number 3 is on it's way! Oh yeah and all the morning sickness :( Many of you may not know this, but we lost a baby this past summer early on in the pregnancy,which was so hard for us. We waited to hear a heart beat and a few extra weeks before spreading the good news, chances of miscarriage after hearing a heart beat is only at 1%, so we were very relieved to see a very happy healthy baby on the ultrasound. Our little girls came with us to see the baby for the first time and they were so excited, and now the little mommy (Layla) has been discussing with me what is okay to eat, or do that is safe for the baby, i.e. no eating crunchy foods because the baby has no teeth. We will keep everyone posted on how we are doing and don't worry, I will be shooting through all nine months.

P.S.
Thanks MKD for offering a maternity photoshoot!


xoxo,
The Feds