Me on TV

I did an event shoot for McDonald's Coffee Ambush at the University of Maine for National Coffee Day. I just happened to be in the background while WABI 5 was filming a student's interview.

Pocketwizard Plus II's are the way to go!

I purchased a Pocketwizard tt1 and tt5 despite reading terrible reviews and I was severely disappointed. They failed on me during one of my photo sessions leaving me quite embarassed. I was using them with a 430EX attached which apparently has the greatest RF interference so I shouldn't have been surprised but I felt that something that costs $430 should perform on command. The flash wouldn't even fire from 10 feet away!

Luckily, Amazon has a great refund policy so I sent them back and ordered the older, but tried and true, Plus II's and I am quite pleased. I know there are less expensive ways to do remote flash but I wanted a system that was proven and reliable since I like to buy things right the first time.

Panning at the Fly-In

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Originally uploaded by dostech

I have only one piece of advice to anyone brave enough to try panning shots... take LOTS of them. I was shooting with my 70-200 at planes flying well over 100mph and it is a lot tougher than it looks. I probably got one keeper for every 10 that I shot. My settings were Tv with the shutter at about 1/30th of a second and ISO100.