Event Photography |
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| It seems that if you want to have a photographic record of your event you have two choices – have a friend snap a bunch of shots on their camera phone or on a low-end digital camera, or pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to have a professional photographer come out and do the job.
For some events, a friend with a camera phone is probably sufficient. For others, you wouldn't dare trust the image recording to anyone other than a high-paid dedicated professional. We've found, however, that most events fall between these two extremes. You want somethat that looks a little better than you'll get from a friend snapping random shots on a camera phone, yet you don't quite need the careful composition, lighting, and treatment that a professional photographer will charge you for. You might simply need some decent shots to put on your web page, to include in a newsletter, or just put in a photo album. For these middle-of-the-road tasks, Plantation Productions, Inc., offers their services. We can snap a few memories in between running lights and sound (or whatever) at your show, or we can concentrate on producing as many photographs as possible of your event so you have a wide variety of images to choose from (at 2-3 hour concerts in the past, for example, we've shot as many as 300 photographs). We shoot our images on a Canon Rebel XT 8MP digital camera using high-quality Canon lenses (as it turns out, the glass [lense] is far more important to photo quality than the number of pixels). Immediately after the show we'll burn you a CD with all the JPEG images and you're free to do with them as you wish. If you like, we can also print them using an 8-color inkjet printer. If you'd like, we can also do various image manipulation operations using Photoshop or Canvas. Randy Hyde, our photographer, has been shooting images since 1972 when he bought his first Minolta SLR. Over the years, he has shot thousands and thousands of photographs on professional Nikon and Canon camera gear. He has worked in film and digital, done his own film processing (color and B&W), and has taken many courses (university and trade classes) on photography. Here's a list of some of the photographic gear we use: |
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Canon Rebel XT |
The "standard" 8MP digital camera. Perfect for events that don't need a high volume of pictures in a small time period. | |
Canon EF 50mm 1:1.4 lense |
A "slight" telephoto (on the XT, anyway). Great for low-light situations and also quite good for potraitures. Exceptionally good picture quality | |
Canon EF70-300mm 1:4.5-5.6 DO IS USM |
A short telephoto to long telephoto lense. Great for capturing well-light events from a distance. | |
Canon EFS 10-22mm 1:3.5-4.5 USM |
A very wide to wide angle lense. Great when you have to shoot images close to the (large) object being photographed. Also produces some spectactular effects. Great for shooting equipment and venues. | |
Canon EFS 18-55mm |
The lense that came with the camera body. We don't use it much because it's only a medium-quality lense, but it's fine to use for quick snap shots, especially for web images. | |
Canon Speedlight 430EX |
When there isn't enough light to shoot by available light, we can pull out this compact flash unit. Because it's not mounted right next to the camera lense, using this flash rather than the on-camera flash reduces red-eye and other undesirable effects. | |
Mac G5 Quad
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We have several high-end Macintosh systems that we can use to edit your photographs. Several systems are portable and we can edit the images on-site (and burn you a CD) while you wait. Or we can take the photographs to our studio and do some careful post-processing for you. | |
