Life Savers: It's 9:00 On A Saturday... The Usual Crowd Shuffels In...

Last night I had the fun of working for my friend Paul Chamberlin over at the Music Machine. Paul had called me to shoot some footage of him performing to be added to a demo video down the road. So I grabbed my old EZ1 which for the last decade has been nothing more than a shelf paperweight, left my light at home because we didn't want to interfer in any way with the ambience of the festivites since I was only there to get demo footage of Pual in action and crossed my fingers. The one big problem with the EZ1 and the reason I bailed on using it is that it's manual functions are almost impossible to use, so you have to leave it in auto. The main reason the footage looses focus a few times.

Not bad, but the camera sucks in low light as evidenced while Paul is doing the introduction to Piano Man. And it reminded me why I like shooting two cameras, I didn't have any cut aways to hide the camera moves as I swung the camera to get the audience, or the tape glitch that happens half way through the song. Usually the second camera would concentrate on the cutaways while I stuck with the main subject, in this case the B&G. And due to the fact I didn't want to be too obvious, the footage of the B&G singing isn't exactly at the best angle. Following the sing along is the bouquet toss.

Paul is one of he great DJs, besides myself of course. ;-) After shooting the demo footage of Paul, I grabbed the still camera he brings with him and fired off a few still shots, which are below. I love having fun with photography. Especially shutter drags, which are those that are out of focus with blured motion.

The official photographer for the couple, who made a cameo in the video is Scott Leonard from Valentino's Photographics. You can see some different photos that I shot, along with a few Paul shot, over at the Music Machine's blog.