No really...I AM a professional!

"Yeah...right!".. at least that's what I'm sure Asher & his human were thinking during their photo shoot...and, with good reason..at least for the first 10 minutes.

For all you waiting to hear the humiliating tale...(all 2 of you! hehe) - here it is!

I had everything prepped for the upcoming photo shoot. Lights were set & tested. Light meter checked. The "studio" was feeling relatively comfortable, despite the plus 30 heat outside. Camerea set, memory card erased. I was ready to go.

(Or...so I thought).

Asher & his human arrived right on time. He quickly adjusted to "the studio", and within minutes, he was doing some serious posing for me.

FANTASTIC!

I quickly grabbed my camera, composed the first shot...and...click.

I glanced down to the LCD to make sure all looked good, and...what the?!?!?!

The screen was competely BLACK. Oh dear.

I quickly started "troubleshooting" (a fancy way to say I started to frantically press a bunch of buttons). Of course, this only being the 5th session I had ever done, I really didn't have much to go on.

I checked this and that, and all looked fine. I was mystified. I tried a few adjustments....still black.

Hoping I had just changed the display option, and there was a photo somewhere, I took one in auto mode using the on camera flash, and, it came up perfectly fine.

Uh...err....hm....

After a VERYpainstakingly embarrassing 4-6 minutes (which felt like an HOUR!), I asked, "did the lights flash when I just snapped that last photo. "nope."

Good Grief!

So, after turning all possible shades of red, I mustered up all the confidence I had left, swaggered over to my main light, and flicked the darn remote trigger to "ON"

Anyway...after that, it was off to the races, and as you can see, the session resulted in some great shots!




The moral of the story..if your photographer if having difficulties during the start of your session, ask them if everything is turned on. Sounds obvious. And yet....

Coming up next...the perils of working with a 100 lb dog....