Thanks, Paul. Sounds as though you have it nailed! In the film days of using speeds from 25 to 800 ASA did you ever go protoplasmic when on the way home you suddenly had that hot flash moment when you realized you'd made a possibly deadly film related camera setting error? Also, knowing you had further anxiety facing you in the form of "push" or "pull" lab trauma?
Jack --- On Wed, 10/20/10, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > From: paul stenquist <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: To drive -- or not > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 8:16 AM > > On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Jack Davis wrote: > > > Paul, sounds like something your experience has > prepared you for. Hope it goes well..by your standards. > > Are you furnishing the fields or backgrounds for the > "parts" & "components" shots or will that be left for > PS? > > Been away chasing more fall and haven't read any of > the responses to this thread. Two 10 hour driving days would > would require another day for rehab. ;). > > Jack > > I'll shoot everything in situ. The facility is spotlessly > clean and has attractive work benches, so that won't be a > problem. If I fly, i'll have to use a couple of AF 540s for > light. If I drive, I can bring my monolight strobes and > umbrellas. That's a plus. But the workplace is brightly lit, > so some diffused flash will probably be more than > adequate. > > Shooting digital, l it always goes well, because the > results can be fully checked before leaving the premises. > With film, the trip home was always a bit stressful. The job > is a piece of cake. Getting there and back is the only > difficult part. > Paul > > > > > > > > --- On Tue, 10/19/10, paul stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> From: paul stenquist <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: OT: To drive -- or not > >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > >> Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 6:38 PM > >> > >> On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Bill Owens wrote: > >> > >>> I think Roanoke, VA would be closer to > Martinsville > >> than Greensboro > >> > >> Thanks Bill. I'll check out flights to Roanoke > before I > >> decide. > >>> > >>> Bill > >>> > >>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:50 PM, paul > stenquist <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>>> I have a shoot in Martinsville, Virginia > at a race > >> car engine building shop. I'll be shooting engine > assembly > >> procedures, parts and equipment indoors. It > will > >> probably take me the better part of a day. > >>>> > >>>> My travel expenses will be reimbursed > whether I > >> drive or fly. My first thought was fly. For sure. > But > >> looking at flights, I'd have to fly into > Greensboro, NC and > >> I'd have to change planes, perhaps twice. The > shortest > >> flight would be 4 1/2 hours. To that add the two > hours prior > >> to flight time that I'd need to travel from home > to the > >> airport and deal with airport crap. Then another > hour at the > >> other end. So Im at 7+ hours. And that's if all > the flights > >> are on time. > >>>> > >>>> Martinsville is 600 miles from my front > door. I > >> can drive there in about ten hours. If I drive, I > can take > >> more equipment -- perhaps even my studio strobes. > I'm > >> thinking now that I should drive. But I don't like > to drive > >> for ten hours, twice in three days. If I fly. I > can work on > >> some of my writing on the plane, so that's a big > plus. > >>>> > >>>> Can't decide. It's a dilemna. > >>>> > >>>> Paul > >>>> -- > >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit > the > >> link directly above and follow the directions. > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the > link > >> directly above and follow the directions. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the > link > >> directly above and follow the directions. > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
