Emily, I go to a lot of week-end activites that feature large crafts areas, and many annual conventions that feature exhibit and/or sales areas. Most of the crafts vendors/exhibitors participate on a regular basis, and realistically won't have any need or desire for a photographic record of their setups. In the cases where they might want one, they will usually have a digital snapshot camera. If you do it, don't expect to exceed your expenses. Bill "Emily L. Ferguson" wrote: > > A friend of mine is on the committee of a regional crafts > organization, and he and I have proposed to the committee that I > shoot the craftspeople's booths as a service to them (for a fee to > me, of course). > > Most of these booths nowadays are 10'x10', with an umbrella-hinged > tubular metal ceiling structure and some sort of canvas on the inside > of the walls of the booth. In addition, many craftspeople who do > both indoor and outdoor shows have a canvas roof over the 10'x10' > area. Many of them don't use the entire depth of the booth, > reserving some area for storage of stock, outdoor clothing, food > supplies etc. Finally, many booths have some incandescent lighting > as part of the display, either clip lights on the umbrella framework, > or Luxo type lights on shelves etc. > > I've been considering putting a peanut slave on a strobe and placing > it in the booth somewhere to get light into the back of the display. > My friend is concerned about the amount of time I might spend on each > booth figuring out the shadows and arranging some gizmo unique to the > booth to attach the strobe. He thinks, from experience at other > shows, that I should be able to amble from booth to booth, shooting > off 6 shots or so at each one, doing about 10 or 12 booths in a hour > or so. He says these shots are really only record shots, not > supposed to be "perfect" or suitable for the promoters to use in > advertising. I'm willing to bet, however, that sooner or later some > of them will show up in such a way, promoters being what they are. > > I've never done this before and I'm game to try it, but my standards > for acceptable may be too high. > > My three flashes consist of an SB-22 with a guide number of 82, a > Vivitar 285HV and a Vivitar 273. The Vivitars have guide numbers of > 100. I have a sync cord for the SB-22 so it doesn't have to be on > the hot shoe. The Vivitars can also be mounted on the camera. My > Nikon will sync at a 60th, a 125th, or a 250th. I have two peanut > slaves that fire the Vivitars. I also have two very featherweight > light stands. > > I'd like to buy clamps for the strobes, and I know that a variety of > them exist, but I'm 75 miles away from camera stores that carry such > things and I haven't succeeded at finding them on places like B&H's > web site, since I don't know what's available or who makes it, or > even by how many different ways it's labelled. > > So I have two questions: > > What to charge for this service - the charge would be paid by the craftsperson. > > What would be the least time-consuming and effort-consuming way to > get the best result with the available gear? The shots need to be on > slide film and noticably better than what one could get with a point > and shoot. > > thanks
