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<blockquote data-quote="Lawrence" data-source="post: 369146" data-attributes="member: 16844">20th OctoberI went to camera club last night (new one for me) to test it out and it was fun.&nbsp; The guest speaker was a lady who specialises in Pet photography and more specifically terminally ill pets! She was very interesting to listen to, very passionate and a great photographer (shoots Nikon D800E). Her website address is <a href="http://lifebytara.com" target="_blank">Pet and Portrait Photography by Tara Sutherland</a>She gave us an exercise to do where one person is the photographer and the other the &quot;pet&quot;.&nbsp; I started off as a pet and my photographer was hilariously incompetent.&nbsp; Huge camera bag, all the gear, monstrous off camera flash unit etc. Took 5 minutes to extract all this crap from his bag before he started shooting. I stopped counting after 17 shutters at which point he hadn't got one photo yet! A variety of excuses such as he had his reading glasses on, the lens wasn't focusing, flash wasn't working etc. In the end he discovered that he had forgotten to set to off camera flash! I couldn't even invite him to join us here at Nikonites as he shot that other brand!I had my 35mm 1.8f and took two shots with no flash. Both worked fine for the purpose of the evening's exercise.Today's shot is of my &quot;pet&quot; - not the photographer mentioned above - and then a second one of part of the group.[ATTACH]119387[/ATTACH][ATTACH]119388[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lawrence, post: 369146, member: 16844"] [U][B]20th October [/B][/U]I went to camera club last night (new one for me) to test it out and it was fun. The guest speaker was a lady who specialises in Pet photography and more specifically terminally ill pets! She was very interesting to listen to, very passionate and a great photographer (shoots Nikon D800E). Her website address is [URL="http://lifebytara.com"]Pet and Portrait Photography by Tara Sutherland[/URL] She gave us an exercise to do where one person is the photographer and the other the "pet". I started off as a pet and my photographer was hilariously incompetent. Huge camera bag, all the gear, monstrous off camera flash unit etc. Took 5 minutes to extract all this crap from his bag before he started shooting. I stopped counting after 17 shutters at which point he hadn't got one photo yet! A variety of excuses such as he had his reading glasses on, the lens wasn't focusing, flash wasn't working etc. In the end he discovered that he had forgotten to set to off camera flash! I couldn't even invite him to join us here at Nikonites as [I]he shot that other brand![/I] I had my 35mm 1.8f and took two shots with no flash. Both worked fine for the purpose of the evening's exercise. Today's shot is of my "pet" - not the photographer mentioned above - and then a second one of part of the group. [ATTACH=CONFIG]119387._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]119388._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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