I'm considering setting up a dating service catering to wedding photographers in the hopes that they'll get married, and get at least a couple competitors to hire me at a time...

wrong:

You found your gear!
You are about to find out your car is NOT WRECKED.

that means you gonna have one more stroke of beating the odds with GOOD LUCK...

kinda like those people that survive a shark attack, give you 1 1/2 thumbs up and say "I was lucky!"

There are now fifteen times as many "Wedding Photographers" in my area as there were five years ago!

hopefully you'll only need drain the tank on the car and refill with deisel...

it happens often enough... they drain the tank, drain and check (sometimes have to replace )the fuel pump and clean the injectors...

expect a $150.00 to $300.00 repair bill.

I'd settle for a leaf shutter lens in the 60mm range and forgive Pentax for ignoreing the pros that like p&s models!

I usually photograph it through the glass instead of removing the original if it is stuck to the glass.
Put down your scanner and pick up your camera.

I'm considering a canon g11, had the g5 and loved it.
do any pentax p&s cameras have dedicated flash hotshoes and synch up to 1/500 or 1/1000? "M" mode? Raw capture?

My wife says I'm not allowed to look at nakie pictures until I grow up.
I saw the title and looked anyways.
She put you up to this?

shiny metal and reflected surfaces:

two issues:
angle of incidence = angle of reflectance, law of physics, not mine. think pool shots.. what the surface reflects, and how the light hits it determines what you see...

the other is you need to light the reflections, not the subject....to work this concept for you, you need to light or hide the object/area that is reflecting in the subject, as John suggested...


here's how I'd do it...

I'd set my backdrop stand up in front of my subject, and hang a white sheet from it, then I'd hang a narrower black cloth down the cnter of the white to create a black rectangle with two large rectangullar strips of white on each end.

I'd put two lights behind this to put the light through the white strips (Strip lights from the subjects position) and a hole through the black area for my lens.


from where your sax is positioned, the lens poking through the black rectangle won't really show it'll look solid black, the white strip light effect from each side of the black area will really define the edges and curves of a sax, and you can control contrast by lowering the power of one of your lights.

there are two unmarked buttons by the pentaprism....
liveview/dof preview could be one, and REC could be the other... with dual card slots there is no reason you can't do video and still capture simultaneously!
my sony's do it!
it is the hdmi output that has me getting my hopes up for video!