UPSTATE MAY MEETING THANKS, etc.

Greetings....

The Upstate District gathered in Spartanburg on Tuesday May 6th for an on location program with Lee Bradshaw from the Midlands.

About 13 photographers from the Upstate (Townville to Spartanburg) and Columbia, met up at Terrell's Photography in downtown Spartanburg. Clay arranged for a couple of willing models (THANKS CLAY!!), and we went to the First Presbyterian Church just across the street from Clay's studio. There were lots of cool locations from which to choose.

Lee did a great job giving us some technical as well as some style insight into how he works an on location shoot. Though many of us currently use something similar to his lighting set up, his use of a simple flash unit helps him avoid the flash going into "standby" mode--a complaint from both the Canon flash unit users and those that use the Nikon flashes.

There was discussion on solving wedding day scenarios (bad lighting, mixed lighting, how he and Lucas work as a team, etc). But I can't share ALL of that....if you weren't there you just missed it.

To avoid missing anything truly helpful again, make plans to be at our next meeting, June 3, 2008 at David Lawrence's studio in Greenville. I know it's just after the 2008 Summinar, but that might just be our topic. More info to come later...

Most everyone stuck around after Lee's talk for dinner at Venus Pie just across the street from our location. There was lots of photography talk. The "most outrageous happening at a bridal shoot not involving the bride" award goes to Tiffiney. We shared some of our personal persuits (publishing a book, mission work). My daughter is jealous because I had dinner with Santa Claus and there was lots of commiserating on how to juggle family and business--and yes we did pass around the family pics.

THANKS everyone!! See you next Month! Kristy