My business is busyness
Oct 23rd, 2008 by John
Crikey! Well from the looks of how quiet everyone’s being (myself included) it’s not just me who’s having a fairly hectic time of this year! The work load certainly seems to have stepped up, and living in a house seems to have created a lot more lost time somewhere. I can’t imagine what its like for y’all who live even further away from your unis! :catfish:
I’m really enjoying cycling still, a few more near misses to add to the tally but that’s all part of the game eh? Besides, I look very fetching in my helmet and ankle straps…
I’ve done a couple of photography jobs recently. One was for a reenactment of Ruskin’s lecture, which didn’t go amazingly but shh, don’t tell the client. The other was assisting at a wedding for our ‘Work Based Learning 2′ module. Yup, our work experience modules have their own sequels. Like most sequels, however, the first one was better (read as easier). The wedding went really well actually, got a few nice shots and feeling a lot more prepared in the wonderful and white and whirling world of wedding phwotography. Also picked up quite a lot of ‘what not to do’s from the guy I was assisting :buck:
Week 5 nearly over already (at least at our uni), scary how fast time is going. This weekend is an anime expo in London, which I shall be going along to. Most of the anime society is dressing up. I, however, will not be. Sorry to dissapoint. I will, however (again), be taking lots of photos of people who did dress up. No doubt some of them will be hilarious(ly bad), and others could well be genuinely impressive. I’ll need all the luck you can spare to navigate the broken tube network though. Also, I’ve found and joined a wargaming and roleplaying society :happy: :buck: (will the geekiness never end?), but have yet to convince my housemates to partake of some roleplaying. Although I did hear someone say the other day, ‘John’s always trying to convince us to play these weird and crap looking games, but when we actually play them, they’re pretty good’. So that’s encouraging….. I think? :U
Anyway, I’m sure that’s plenty enough from me. Time to get back to the work! Hope everyone is well, have a good All Hallows Eve next week, and Ghey Forks Nyte the week after! I leave you with this marital scene…
Edit: had to be a small photo to protect the identity of the ‘participants’! Also it’s come to my attention the photo uploader bit isn’t working. I’ll upgrade WordPress once I get a spare while to do so.
Yay, purdy wedding shot :happy: I’m glad it went well, must’ve been really good experience and something to put in your portfolio as a starting point if you do decide to go into wedding photography. Splendid splendide…
Ooh you found an RPG soc, definitely get the housemates involved if you can ^^ Could be a laff.
Anywho, glad all is going well, the workload here has definitely cranked up a notch too…off to spend my free day doing essays, grammar and cleaning now. Yippeeee…
xx
Sorry to focus in on one part of your blog only John but..wedding photography. Did you enjoy it and do you think you’d do any more? Also how happy were you assisting someone? Did you find that you were able to do some of your own style shots? Or do you think you trod on each other’s toes a bit? Do you have any idea how much the other photographer was charging? Don’t be scared if I sound a little too interested!
Crikey, there’s focussing and then there’s focussing. That was certainly a demonstration of the latter!
1, 2) I did enjoy it, a very good day indeed and I’d take every opportunity I could do assist in the future / do it meself. But if I did do any weddings myself I’d have an assistant of my own I think! But arr, was a good experience.
3) He basically let me wander around and do whatever I wanted, so yup I was shooting in my own way all day, just trying to stay out of his way and help him whenever I could as well.
4) He was more treading on the heels of wedding. But anyway, since he was the main guy I just stayed out of his way, so no painful toes were had.
5) Charging eh? Well I think that wedding was £400 or so? But I know prices range between £200 – £1000 :money: , depending on what you want doing and who’s doing it. The guy I assisted didn’t charge any more for having an assistant since I went along for free.
Free John? A bargain. :bigo: