on point. Praise the All Mighty for our advancements in technology, that we may check our email accounts from our cell phones. Circumventing possible police involvement and unnecessary blood shed and extensive loss of hair... o_OOur second class was to focus on action while trying to capture a photojournalist aspect of the event. Our group met at the Tampa Bay History Center. The event was, River Walk for Dad's www.riverwalkfordads.org, June 19, 2010, helping to promote awareness for prostate cancer. This event was founded by Richard Gonzmart who is owner of the Columbia restaurant.
Not rain nor slee
t nor loss of limb was going to keep me from ANY of our Saturday classes and it was said by our Yoda, that a good photojournalist always gets to a shoot early and stays late. My idea was to get to the event at 8am, after reading an email from Chip www.chipshotz.com, our instructor from FMoPA www.fmopa.org, about the time he was planning to be at the event. After Jen's and my, dare I say, round about way to get to our destination, well I'm not even sure the exact time we arrived to see a few of our classmates who were trying to find the meeting point. After our group meeting with Chip's instruction on what to watch and try to capture we were out the door.Backing up a day from the event would be Friday and I left work sick with the flu. Not able to keep anything down that day, it was a relief to be able to go home and sleep. But I awoke at around 3:30 that Saturday morning and my breakfast on our drive downtown was a handful of Combos pretzels and some water.
The day was extremely hot and muggy and despite not feeling well the day before I was physically okay for the event, mentally was another story. Never attending any kind of an event like this before I was kinda unsure of just how they were going to start off. I half expected all the participants would be all lined up and a whistle blown, or maybe some kind of a horn or maybe a voice over a loud speaker announcing the start. Nope they were off and walking down Tampa's river walk where we caught up to them as we all tried to capture images that showed what was going on.
Being flash deficient at this point in the game I was not using necessary fill flash and most of my subjects that day were left looking blah to yucky. My brain was left at home in bed and the severely back lit photos left many of my subjects in the dark or extremely over exposed due to my inability to properly think about switching my
manual controls for the challenging lighting conditions. The worst part was that I seemed to always be at the wrong place with a few exceptions and I never saw when the bulk of walkers came back up the path, okay I missed all the walkers coming back in and at one point ventured out to find them, not realizing they had come back and were eating the breakfast provided by the Columbia Restaurant.As much as I would like to play the, "I get out of taking good pictures card," by being sick and as much as I want to be able to blame my lovely daughter on our driving to the wrong l
ocation, I cannot and must take personal responsibility for the short comings of the day. "IF" this had been a paid event for us and not a class outing, the person paying for our services wouldn't have cared what the lighting situation was nor would they have cared about our inability to get our directions firmed up between us, they are paying for results and in the end there are no excuses.Despite the shortcomings of the days events it was still an amazing day and learning experience shooting with others in the class and being able to see what they saw through their lens.
Physically and mentally exhausted my daughter and I headed to the Columbia restaurant inside of the Tampa Bay History Center overlooking the Tampa River Walk and enjoyed great food and each others company. River Walk for Dad's, what a great event it was, we'll be back next year to see how it has grown!!
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