Saturday's Event, Karly & Patrick

It's been a busy summer of video production and while Mark and Mike have been busy DJing (yes I know not a word) I haven't done many myself. Saturday was a change of pace for me as I was the Disc Jockey and not the videographer. It's always nice to get my toes wet in my first love and this was one fantastic party to do so at!

Karly and Patrick had their wedding reception at the top notch Windsor Park in Edison Lakes. Rita and staff as usual were on their toes and everything flowed smoothly with dinner and the roast beef was fantastic. The party itself was off the scale, this group really knew how to get down.

Every 3 to 5 years or so a group of songs that are for all intents and purposes have a resurgence in wedding reception market. The YMCA came back when Wayne and Garth danced to it in the movie. Vanilla Ice with ICE ICE Baby made a resurgence about 5 years ago after crushing his video on MTV. In the last year 5 songs have come roaring back to life at receptions: Pour Some Sugar On My by Def Leppard, Don't Stop Believing by Journey, Living On A Prayer by Bon Jovi (well if you went to a Catholic school that song has never been 'out' but it's really made it's way into the mainstream market too) and the really big suprise Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money are the latest resurgent songs to hit. As I said the big surprise is Eddie Money's song. I like his music but no one ever danced to it, even when it was on the charts, until now. A good time was had by all.

When your a DJ and the party is rocking there is nothing like it for a natural high or adrenaline rush. A fun time was had by all.

Saturday also gave me a chance to indulge myself with a little photography. Nothing can replace video as the medium that celebrates everything about life, but photography can be fun. Last week I picked up a Fuji Finepix camera and hauled it with me to the reception to snap a few pics. What a disappointment that camera is, I hauled it back today to the store. As a videographer I have been using a film based camera for a while and I love film but for quick snapshots of equipment setups and such a digital is just fine and I'd hoped to have found an inexpensive one in the Fuji. In low light, even with the ISO dialed up and the flash on, the camera just sucked. In manual I couldn't get the shutter to sync with the flash, I have no idea what that was about at all and reading the manual today indicated nothing done wrong. In auto the camera dropped my ISO to 100 and created a grainy picture, argh! On top of that it's redeye feature which causes a delay in the shutter firing just reaked havoc on carefully composed shots. I should have known, never go cheap, looks like it's time to break into the piggy bank and get a Nikon D200.

Well all was not lost on the photography side, below are a few of the salvageable pictures.