KATRINA SENIOR PHOTOS @ THE PIER

Our latest High School Senior Katrina photo shoot at the San Clemente Pier and downtown historic brick alley & stairs. She was a doll and her photos prove it, real class. See all her"Urban Fashion Photos" from Studio ZZZ on our web site gallery.

Wireless Painters Pole "how to"

I know a few in the group posted "how to" for a painters pole here is another way to use off the shelf parts for a professional set up with wireless shutter release.

WIRELESS PAINTERS POLE SET UP


This is my most recent painters pole set up. I wanted wireless fire the shutter on my Canon 5D. To do this you need a few parts, besides the painters pole.

Here is a list of the parts off the shelf items to make a pole photo set up for wireless shooting.

1] Mr. Longarm I got the 15 foot model. Available in the paint department of Home Depot or www.mrlongarm.com $36.97

2] Monfrotto mini ball head Model number 484RC2. This will allow quick release & mount of the camera and more important allow you to point the camera down a little. Adjustable head. Amazon dot com about $60. with free shipping

3] Baby pin adapter from www.filmtools.com 1/4 /20 Male to Baby Pin Aluminum Adapter $15.50

4] Pole Adapter from midwest photo exchange www.mpex.com Kacey Pole Adapter $19.00

You need the pole adapter to screw on to the top of the painters pole.


5] Things I all ready had from Real Estate Photography, were two Pocket Wizards.

Things to remember, one goes on the hot shoe of the camera, needs the selector on “LOCAL” . The cable needs to go into the jack marked “Camera/Flash” .

The second Pocket Wizard you keep in your pocket, when the camera is up in the air, press TEST button to fire the shutter. Now how cool is that !!

Pocket Wizards, cost now around $170. bucks each

Special note: If for some reason you still need to fire a “remote flash” somewhere in your photo, your two Pocket Wizards are set to channel one on the hot shoe of the camera & the Pocket Wizard you have in your hand is on channel one. SET the remote flash Pocket Wizard to channel TWO, then when you press the test button this will fire the shutter in the camera, then send a signal relay to the “remote” Pocket Wizards to fire your flash. Pocket Wizards will alway send a relay one channel UP. Otherwise if you have them all set to channel one, you press the test button, your camera shutter & remote flash go off all at the same time, you will have shutter curtain in your photo, again to avoid this, your remote flash pocket wizards need to be set to channel TWO, this mini delay “sync” everything. Maybe you are taking a night photo of a house with your new toy, the pole camera, your need to sync the remote flash with your camera, this is the method. Have fun !!

6] Last item is a REMOTE CABLE from the Pocket Wizard to the side port of your Canon or Nikon camera. Spendy, at about $70. Here is a link to find the exact cable for your camera.
www.pocketwizard.com/support/cable_finder/

This set-up allows you to use a painters pole, attach your camera in a professional ,non-duck tape methods, and fire the shutter remote wireless using a few items you may all ready have in your bag.

The elevation of about 15 feet for a rear of home or street level elevated is just enough to make a difference.

I also have a roof mounted 55 foot air mast on our SUV for real Aerial Photos & Panoramic neighborhood shots, however find the 15 foot painters pole just great for a quickie in the front or that important “rear” shot to make a difference where an elevated shot will stand out.

The photos below were taken with my pocket camera, I know one is out of focus, that is the camera, but you can see what all this looks like assembled. I will replace the photos here soon. The entire set of photos are in my flickr group photos.

Hope everyone enjoys this post, questions & comments welcome. Add to the list of how you did it, let us see what you did.

Rusty,

REAL ESTATE SAMPLE VIDEO

This is a sample test video for our photo business, a photo shoot from a week ago. Let me know your comments.

PROM NITE 2009

Photo shoot with my business partner @ Studio ZZZ, Lou had his daughter going to Prom Nite. Set-up with dual strobes left & right EV @ +1, on camera 580EX @ EV minus -2 and camera EV comp a minus -1. This is the NoBS set up for poppers with a special Photoshop action makes the girls come off the paper. Canon Portrait set 3,1,1,-1 for color pop even more.

Lou & the girls had fun taken at Lake Irvine bridge, I had a great time helping Lou with this shoot & photoshop lesson after. Complete set posted on studio zzz.

Beverly Hills Photo Shoot

Hello to all, started taking photos for Realtors, had a stager let us shoot her "staged" home to get started for photos to use on our web site. Here is one of the homes. NOTE: Take a look at the photo, you can see through the window into the patio, this was taken on manual settings 5D, with three strobes in the room.

Meter for window on manual, then add strobes to balance natural light in room, like magic this photo will appear, first shot.

FACEBOOK NEW PAGE

We are on "facebook" look me up !   e-mail is rusty@studiozzz.com come join as my friend!

STUDIO ZZZ BURNS TO GROUND

We are back, at least for a little while. WHY leave? The photo I woke up to on New Years day 2008, YIP, that is Jan 1st 2008 was the Fire Engines & poring water, on what? Our new photo studio, at least where were moving as of mid December, a few weeks earlier to this nice 1930's brick building, now a pile of rubble. We did not loose much equipment, but decided to take the rest of 2008 off.

Touring Europe with wife Milya, took the family car put into container bound for Bremerhaven Germany. Wheels are great, along with a good travel companion, we ended up all over EU and found Bulgaria a wonderland. More later. Anyway, now 2009, no posting for all most a year on this blog, now back in USA for a while, taking up a pro photo business once again. Orange County is our new temp home, till my move back to "Russia".

Photoshop C3 Montage

I am working with photoshop C3, learning everyday. Just wanted to post two new photos montage of Milya. C3 Multii layers, using Graphic Authority templates makes this easy, a good model helps too.!

PHOTO OF MILYA

Well as it is, I wanted to upload this photo for the new lens, so this photos is for the post below, the photo below is my current learning on PhotoShop C3, with new grung templates from Graphic Authority.

Enjoy

My favorite model

Summer has passed by, way to fast, August ended with a few more photos, September arrived WAY too HOT!! I have been busy getting things in order for a short holiday to Europe for stock photos.

My Ford Exployer arrives in Germany via ocean container around the first of October. Driving in Eastern Europe for a few weeks, then off to Moscow.

This is one of my favorite models, my wife, she sort of agreeed to be my tester of a new lens 1.2 -85mm for taking special close up portraits with a blur rate of about 10 inches in front & to the rear, nifty effect stright out of camera SOOC.

Photo tip: Shoot wide open, set to auto focus, on Apeture Priority, ISO 200, great portrait lens from canon.

Photoshop lessons keep on going, learning more every week, the dream actions by Craigs & Kubota Image, when do these guys sleep? creating all this good stuff for us photo dogs.

I am learning everyday. Starting new project for Flash Movie of homes, for Realtors, more in next blog update.

Keep your lens clean, enjoy the photo or two, Milya.

944 Magazine photo shoot

We are moving along, this week we have a photo assignment from 944Mag, the "in" mag for Fashion, Entertainment, the night club action, a must mag for San Diego. First real published photos for public. Photo is one they may use this August issue.

The office is moving too, Irvine to San Diego, new phone numbers. Install around Tuesday phone 619-544-9222 & fax 619-544-9007.

Need office helper, craig list has produced no real person, need a different way to advertise for office helper. Maybe the local college on Monday, I shall call.

Sunday will be DOG DAY, at the local dog park, to take a few photos for future advertising. Look for results next blog post.

Happy day in San Diego !!

City Life @ night Gas Lamp

This post is for documental style of "city life" in San Diego after dark. More to come in weeks ahead, jsut a few more posted today.

The police seem apt to write tickets to the peddle cabbie's, now two nights in a row, several I have seen getting some ticket for who knows what, my opinion is there are way too many of these things on the streets, it is a plyith in the city, rude, crude, dirty, scummie, ill dressed bike cab persons, whom only want your money, asking everyone, "want a ride" is just plain ugly of such a great city of San Diego. Limit it to a few dozen out every night, not the 100's plus that are there on only one street alone, clogging traffic. My 2 cents

I took Francisco from Italy with me for a few photos, he is taking photo class in Italy, so I told him come along, his little point n shoot did a nice job of night photos, my canon5D set at 1600iso was a gem!! take a look at the latest posting for city life gallery, to see results.

Sunday is Dad's day, Natalie sent me a nice PDF card & specail suprise !! More in my next blog, on this. Great phone call from her this morning.

Photo is my first of a start of Neon, the guy in the photo is Francisco, his munchies at 1am were a slice of pizza for $3bucks.

I am off to the bike store, then the harbor area for a few photo of boats & such, look for my next posting soon

Russell

SAN DIEGO NITE LIFE GAS LAMP

The summer season is here again, this photo taken at around "midnight" Friday eve, says it all, people to people, everywhere!!

This photo dog, on the trail, will take a tripple expresso before going out on Saturday eve, need more city photos, need to re-arrange my sleep patterns to take photos at night. This is only a start, more to come.

Keep checking out "City Life" gallery on my web site, as I add to this daily, now where did someone put my pillow?

I have iTunes going on the IMac, playing a French Paris hot station, now playin Madanna, great music, check this Raido station out, soon Frequence3 on the play list.

nite, nite

LITTLE ITALY PHOTO SHOOT

Well another day, in wonderful San Diego. Assignment for this photographer, to capture a mouth watering plate at my local Gelato bar, Pappalecco at the corner of State & Cedar, Little Italy. My favorite place for a cuppuccino in the morning, everyday, in fact.

This photo is to help my new friend Francisco aka owner, into the advertising market, as he has a wonderful menu, only it is printed on paper, you can not appreciate the food, looking at paper. Photo Dog to the rescue, a photo no tell will help with this.

My wonderful friend, glad to help him, take a look at the full photo shoot on our web site are more photos from this day, Gelato, interior photos, nite photo too, here is a sample of the presentation FOOD photo he will use to get more sales, aka money.

Open only a few weeks, go by & visit him, tell him Russell sent you.

Bon appetit

WELCOME to our STUDIO ZZZ , this is the first post starting a new business of being a professional photographer.



DOGS life seems easy to me right now, sleep all day, maybe play fetch with the master, get feed on time everyday, it is just an easy life, as a "dogs" life.



YES, We will be taking photos of "dogs" and their masters on this site, plus other types of speciality PHOTOS of my interest. We meet at the Balboa "Dog" Park, all most every Sunday morning, to take photos, AND at the dog beach in Solana Beach on low tide weekends by arrangement. This guy & gal were holding hands in "dog park" walking a black & a white dogs, great to be in love, spring is n the air!!



AERIAL PHOTOS for the Real Estate market, helping the REALTOR, sell the home, using professional equipment, WIDE angel lens, to show the home that is for sale in the best light, get the pund. Residential MLS photography for the web & print media.



We will explore the art of taking a Residential photo, to help the Realtors take better photos with a "point & shoot" and when they need a pro, they can call our Studio ZZZ for a professional photogrfapher.



Night Residential photography is a special interest, it takes time to set up the shoot, all for one special photo, that will present the home in a method, the buyers looking at the photo will pick up the phone & call the Realtor to see it.



You have a comment, like to know what or how to take a photo, drop a message here or e-mail, always glad to help.

My other interest in photography is FOOD photos for menus & advertising, this is a special art form, to create the mouth watering photos you wish to eat off the printed page, or decide to order from a menu, just from the photo.





RUSSELL FREEMAN STUDIO ZZZ

E-MAIL photostudiozzz@gmail.com