I read the headers on the last newspaper clipping and got frightened....

My macbook display is gorgeous.
Somebody had to crack one open, to find out the manufaturers model to find out...not exactly an obvious flaw, doubtful i could see the difference.
still, I know that laptops are not ideal for critical work.
I still find my Imac or Emac displays to be most acuurate. any field editing on critical work should be done in an adjustment layer, and saved as a psd, to be tweeked (if nescessary) at the desktop computers at home.

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also a suggestion: have you tried getting on the merry-go-round opposite sides to a child and firing off a shot or two with flash to give a sharp child with a blurred background? use your widest lens to get the merry-go-round, in the frame.

now before you go and get yourself fired, try to remember that Gerri usually deals with the people and knows how to translate my lingo into something more diplomattic.

but the logic is sound.

if your laptop fails, print directly of the printers.
if the printers fail, send your assistant to a minilab.
if the customer has unrealistic expectations, educate them.

i would use aperture, automater, applescript, photoshop with actions, and two printers and tear through it. laptop on a stand beside my tripod, bluetooth and/or airport express equiped epsons (wireless printing), shoot on smaller memory cards, jpeg, pulling the cards at 10 min intervals and plugging them into my card readers.
they auto download from the readers and get renamed with date and time.
Photoshop batch processes them, sharpens and watermarks them with our logo and a boarder.
they then go into aperture where theyre auto stacked (using timing between shots to keep images shot within 4-5 seconds of each other into groups).
From there the images can be visually checked (if the image at the top of the stack is no good the stack gets opened and a better image selected. and the pick of each stack gets sent to one of two printers.

fast and good, but still 2 minutes is pushing it with all that automation.
I'd have to just shoot and print with no processing, logos etc to get down to 2 mins.

I wouldn't go in without a backup plan.
start with something tried and true. (assistant and laptop)
bring a couple extra memory cards and be prepaired to run two printers that will print straight off the cards (epsons work for me).
then after trying the imiage remote software (I find it a tad slow on the response time (shutter lag) and transfer time. may bottle neck your workfolw, especially if you shoot lots of poses (3or4/child).

Now it may be easier for you to educate your client, than restructure your workflow.
I don't give a damn, how much walmart costs or how fast they turn around.
Unless you're going to commit to me, in writing, to do the kind of volume, they do, it's simply not woth my while to buy thier type of equipment, or offer thier type of services.

I know how long it takes me to set up my equipment, shoot my type of images and please my type of clients. If that's not to your schedual, try calling walmart and ask them if they mind packing up thier $280,000 noritsu photolab and bringing it to your event. For the same price I gave you.

can work that on my mac.
No clue how to on a pc.
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very nice shot. I like it
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now Pete, step away from the computer.
You've got it. know when to stop. this last one is really good!
I like the first one also.

I've mentioned in the past that you can use a piece of electrical tape and two cokin filter rings to mount your 50mm lens to your 28-70, to get the same efect he's getting with a reverse mount adapter....might save somebody a couple bucks if they've got cokin rings laying about, and just want to try reverse mounting a 50mm.