A Smooth Pour

A Smooth Pour – Lowe Park, Marion, Iowa

It seems as though photography jobs are “pouring” in, after taking pictures at a friends wedding (for fun), one of Erica’s friends sent her a facebook message indicating she had shown the pictures to her friend who mentioned that we should shoot her engagement photos and possibly her wedding. That’s probably a really confusing sentence -> clarification: Erica’s friends friend may want us to shoot her engagement photos and wedding. We’re already shooting my brothers’ wedding next August and that has me on the fence about a lot of things.

I can’t use my film cameras at his wedding because they’re unreliable and in the case of the Bronica, too loud. He’s said he’d buy me a camera as a Wedding/Birthday/Christmas present. Don’t know how rediculous that sounds, but he’s willing to do it. Because of this though, I’m having a mental war over film and digital; I get the feeling that I’ll give up film after getting this camera. The camera I want (Pentax K-7) is $1200 which just happens to be under half of what most wedding photographers now charge for their services, too bad I’m limited to something not that good, so I’m hoping to get a Pentax K20d with the battery grip. Of course, Eric mentioned a Nikon D1x so I’ve been thinking of that too, if I go that route, I’d have to share gear with Erica.

Erica needs better gear if we are going to start doing this more often, her kit lens isn’t great and the flash she is using has a dedicated Pentax hotshoe which doesn’t really work with the Nikon hotshoe for proper control. I found the two Tamron lenses she needs -> 17-50 f/2.8 and the 70-200 f/2.8.

Time for food, I’m hungry, I’m thinking Pancheros…