Over the last few years, I have found a true desire to delve into photography.  I have always found photography to be magical, but it was always too complicated, and playing in the darkroom wasn’t that exciting for me—I hated the smell of the chemicals. Now that that part of the equation has been eliminated, I am more and more interested.  I made a big investment in a top end camera at the end of last year, and it came a couple weeks ago.  The Nikon D700 is a wonderful camera with a ton of bells and whistles, and most important to me, the ability to shoot tethered to a computer. Having spent many hours in the Future photo studios watching them shoot tethered, and the ability it gives to truly examine the image in full screen, I fell in love.  I tried several set ups to get my pentax to work tethered, and they didn’t really do it for me.  The Nikon is a dream set up.  Last night I finally got the whole setup working smoothly.  Just in time for a photo shoot for PlayStation: The Official Magazine.

My home studio, shooting tethered, working on a class project

It was really nice to be able to have everything set up within 15 minutes.  Now that I am using my laptop as part of the process, Dan helped me find this great rack stand—which has locking wheels—so I can keep the laptop near me, but it swivels easy to show images to the clients or the talent. It worked great for the PTOM shoot, that will appear in the May issue.  I am really feeling more confident about what I am doing, and it helps more with each shoot.

Fun with Ps3