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Dog Show Photographer from B.C.


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cpurves

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I never really know what to say to introduce myself that doesn't sound like bragging or spouting off. 

I mostly read a forum for the information I see and maybe ask a technical question. 

 

My wife and I travel BC, Alberta and the Yukon in Canada. 

We're based in Prince George BC and photograph dog shows. 

We carry a full studio with us. 

I use alien bees strobes, Nikon d500 and d300 cameras.

I shoot tethered into the computer so we can get the photos to the viewing stations quickly so the customers and view and pick their photos.  I use a mix of Dell and Lenovo laptiops.  It's my servier and feeds photos to our up to five viewing stations.

One of the laptops is our print computer.  I pull the files off the server, process in photoshop CS5 then either print on our DNP dyesub printer or email the files to the customer.

Most weekends are three days with two shows a day but a couple are larger shows with only one show a day.

 

We travel in a 38ft fifth wheel and put on about 25,000 Km a year.

All in all it's a great lifestyle, very social and really satisfying.

 

Cheers

Chris

 



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Welcome to the forums!

Even as a working pro, the Your best... and, to a lesser degree, the One week... minichallenges can be interesting as we all have different ways of achieving similar results.



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Welcome to the forum. Sounds like a great job!

I photograph a lot of dogs too, as unofficial photographer to our Lurcher racing club. However, I work at the other end of the spectrum, travelling in a 14 year old Mitsubishi Outlander and processing all my images on my faithful iPad :D

I hope you’ll join in with some of the mini-challenges, as Pete said, they’re good fun (and I might be able to pic up some tips!)

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Welcome to the forum. Sounds like a great job!

I photograph a lot of dogs too, as unofficial photographer to our Lurcher racing club. However, I work at the other end of the spectrum, travelling in a 14 year old Mitsubishi Outlander and processing all my images on my faithful iPad :D

I hope you’ll join in with some of the mini-challenges, as Pete said, they’re good fun (and I might be able to pic up some tips!)

I'm just wrapping up my last shoots of the year so will be able to send in some stuff when I back to personal stuff. 

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.  I'll help where I can.