Misha Media Photo Meet n' Greet (recap)

First of all, I just want to throw out one more THANK YOU to Michele & Andy of Misha Media for putting together this photo day. What'd you miss if you weren't there? Let's recap.

Before we officially started shooting, there was time for some good old fashioned meet n' greet activities. The usual nervous tension was broken by not only mutual interests and friendly, outgoing faces, but also by glorious pizza and drinks. Thankfully, the ongoing war between Canon and Nikon was put on hold for the day. Anyway! As we settled into our chairs, Michele and Andy started an image slideshow showcasing our own work which turned out to be a very wide spectrum of novice to seasoned expert. It was great to see how other people saw things through their own viewfinders before actually getting some knowledge thrown at us. A "baseline" if you will. Afterwards, we got the low-down on camera basics - all the good stuff a photographer should know (e.g. camera settings, metering, RAW vs. JPG, lighting) and got a glimpse into Misha Media's camera bag.

Afterwards, we broke up into 3 "teams" and got to shooting. I joined David and some fellow Canon-heads to shoot along the Chicago River with Qiu. Here's a look at some of those pics:




Behind the scenes action:



After some truly inspiring scenes, we treked back up to the rooftop to reconvene with everyone before heading to location #2. After being so inspired it was hard to put down the camera and stop shooting, haha.




Gino came with me in the M3 to location #2. We had a "spirited" run with Albert from Second Print Productions in his beautiful STI (+ Mike Fan and David). Once there, we grabbed all our equipment and met up with the rest of the gang to start up round 2.

One would think it would be super hard to share a model with 30 photographers, but really, it was just a great experience to be hanging out with so many people that share your passions. Like Gino said, it was like a car meet for photographers. So fun. Here are some shots with our model:








I had a few problems getting my CS3 to read my .CR2 files, so for the sake of time, I just went ahead and processed in JPG. Overall, it was a good time, great shoot, and fantastic opportunity to meet all these new faces...with and without their gear in front of it, haha. Until next time!