Unexpected

"Michael Sasser pauses while climbing the narrow confines of a spiral staircase inside Shove Chapel on the campus of Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Monday, Feb. 22, 2010."

If you look hard enough, sometimes you'll find something that you weren't originally after, that you never knew was there.

Wednesday afternoon Mike and I ventured down to Colorado Springs for a get together with some other photographers. While we were there we stopped by the Shove Chapel to scout it for a potential wedding client.

The bride was warned that it was an extremely dark venue and it was (1/30th f/2.8 at 6400ISO for you photo geeks reading). I assured her that we had the gear capable of working in such an environment but I thought that by shooting a few images I could provide her with something tangible. I can talk gear and technical data all day but clients just care about pictures and I understand that.

In the midst of wandering around we found an open door that led to a really cool spiral staircase. It didn't take long for us to decide to see where it would lead and in the process of climbing up the tight spaces I managed to make the image above. Sure, it's nothing special but it's an image I didn't expected to take and for that reason alone I'm happy to come away with it.

-JCE

Colorado Springs Wedding Photographer

Long day, well worth it

Click here: 2008 Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial Multimedia Presentation

(Edit: the multimedia presentation was sized for The Gazette's settings which turned out to be too big for my blog so you have to click the link above and you will then be directed to the proper URL which hosts the presentation)

I finally got the courage to do a multimedia project today. Considering that it is only my second ever attempt at doing so I'm pretty pleased with my results. I can say that being able to use the proper (expensive) equipment from the paper was a big help this time around.

I kept going back and forth on whether or not I was going to do one. I didn't even have the audio gear when I went to the event. However I arrived at 10am when I thought it was supposed to start but it turned out that they were only rehearsing. The paper is only three blocks from the park where it was being held so I just walked back to get the recorder, mic and headphones.

It was difficult trying to decide when exactly to shoot and when to record but it was so much easier this second time around. The event really lent itself well to multimedia because there was a lot of things to shoot and there was a lot of great audio everywhere.

While I was shooting as the event started I took off my hat and stuffed it into my belt pack out of respect but not five minutes after doing so it fell off somewhere and I never found it. Considering that I have had that all black Braves hat since 2004 I was really pissed. However I was even more pissed when I got in the car and looked at my hair in the mirror, I couldn't have looked more ridiculous. Only god knows what people must have thought of me with all my gear and nappy looking hat hair.

It has been a ridiculously long day so I'm going to shut it down now. Thankfully my assignment tomorrow isn't until 1pm so I can sleep in. Leave some comments and let me know what you think. I really want to improve upon my next multimedia project but I need some feedback on this one in order to do so.

-JCE

www.jcedmonds.com