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[flvideo]

Hey Jean and Tim I know just the scene I'll use in those places. My wife panned the audience a couple times and I didn't use those shots. I stayed on the other camera. That should work good. Thanks. Jean do you just shoot weddings? I use to worked with a company years ago that shot weddings on to original love boat. High dollar, $4000 a pop and that was probably 15 years ago or more. Probably more than that. The editing was done tape to tape on 3/4in tape. At $4000 I may rethink the wedding bussiness. I try to shoot the things I love so it kinda melds together. I have a job coming up to shoot a promo for a large painting contractor and he works all over the country. It will involve a lot of travel but the work is boring. I have a hard time getting into painting. Sometimes you have to do what pays the bills. Tim what do you do mostly? I enjoy talking to you guys. Bob...

[Jeanton]

Hi Bob

Yes I do manly shoot wedding because I don't like directing ( telling people what to do is just not me). I would like to charge people that kind of money but here in Toowoomba Australia people are a bit tight or rather spend that money on a photographer. (I found they over charge a bit for the time they spend on a wedding shoot or post production). I suppose that is how the cookie crumbles I am the last one to be booked and the first one to be dropped if they are over budget , so I have a normal full time job as well to pay the bills. Wedding are so seasonal Spring and Autumn are flat out but Summer and Winter are not that busy. I just don't like sitting around waiting for jobs to come in or looking for work you can say I am a bit laidback but that's the way I am no pushy sales talk they want you or not.Here you go you know a bit about me and again that doesn't bother me got nothing to hide.

[TimKennelly]

Not sure what happened to my post response, time to get some shut eye as fatigue must be getting to me.

There is very little I have not shot over the last twenty-five years from dances, plays, graduations, reunions, birthday parties, how to videos, commercials and corporate work.

My interests have moved on more to straight people interaction and I have a full-time job of that now, so I have cut way back on video.

I do the occasional stand alone photo montage and some tape to DVD transfers, but other than that I limit myself to weddings as I still enjoy pleasing brides and refer on the other types of work to other video colleagues.

[flvideo]

Well I shot 3 races Saturday night without stopping either Cam 1 or Cam 2. The first race went all the way to the last lap with out a caution. It edited well. The 2nd race was riddled with cautions. I got abut 3/4 the way thru the race and I forgot and hit pause after a wreck. Old habits die hard. I used QC to edit the first 10 laps and I screwed up on a switch so had to stop it I went to Camera 2 and for some reason he went to the sky with his camera just after I switched. I didn't see it at first and went back to #1 and then noticed #2 was in the air. So I stopped QC and started over. I left the first 10 laps where it went ok but I scewed up agin and had to stop. The 3rd race was a complete disaster. They raced a lap at a time the first half of the race and I got frustrated and stopped #1. I think I have decided that split and insert is the way to go with racing. I used 1 60 min tape for 1 race. Besides as I go along I'll get better and faster with slit and insert. It worked great for the wedding. I got the Ceremony completely done. Now I have to fight with the Reception. She (my wife) was not able to get into the DJ's board as I had told her to and she had a time figuring out how to get the camera on internal mic's. I've got about 20 minutes of silent reception. Good place for music I guess. She had my Panasonics, I had the Sonys, and she isn't very familuar with them. I guess thats my fault I didn't splain em very good. Bob...