Jason Tag Photography

Chantelle - Nude Goddess, March 21, 2009

This morning I had the honor and privilege of shooting with Chantelle.  Over the past few month’s I’ve avoided shooting at sunrise because the temperature has been a little cold.  Being that it was winter, it makes sense.  Now it seems that the morning temperatures are getting warmer so I decided that It was time to shoot at sunrise.  It was a very good decision.

Chantelle was such fun to work with.  Shooting reminded me of just how far I’ve come over the past few months.  I directed her for most of the shoot.  Normally I would feel lost and not sure of what to say, but this time I felt very comfortable directed her and asking for various poses.  She was also very good at coming up with poses for us to start from and then we’d tweak slightly from there.  It was a very easy shoot.  Easy in the sense that I didn’t really find myself hunting for the right shots.  I just pointed the camera in the right direction and, pushed the button.

Chantelle - Nude Goddess, March 21, 2009

For this shoot I also decided that I would use only my new 50mm lens.  I wanted to really put it through it’s paces.  On my last shoot with Rafi, I took a few shots with it but then switched to my standard lens for the rest of that shoot. Today I left the lens on and I found myself not really wanting to go back to my standard 18mm-135mm lens.  The 50mm is a great lens and produced killer results!  I am very happy with it!

After we had been shooting for about an forty five minutes we moved to an area at the location that was all lava rocks right on the ocean.  And we proceeded to get some nice shots when all of a sudden a wave crashed over the rocks.  Chantelle was soaked!  My back was facing the wave it crashed and so only my back was wet.  Some water managed to splash onto the camera and I quickly grabbed a cloth and dried the camera.  We decided to move to a drier area.  We walked back to an open field area and starting shooting again.  At one point I asked Chantelle to pose against a really cool tree.  This was when I discovered a problem with my camera.

Chantelle - Nude Goddess, March 21, 2009

I found that I couldn’t change my shutter speed.  Everything else worked fine though.  It bothered me, but since I had a beautiful woman posing nude only a few feet away, I decided to switch the camera to Aperture priority mode and let the camera select the shutter automatically.  We kept shooting.  Soon though, the camera died completely.  It would turn on, but it wouldn’t read or write to the memory card and it started doing other funky things as well.  After we talked about it, we agreed that the shoot was over since I didn’t have another camera to shoot with.  We did get some great shots though and I’m very happy with what we got!

I think that some water got into the camera and it just needs to dry out.  I hope that’s all that’s wrong with it.  I just bought the camera in January to replace my Olympus.  I really hope that everything is fine with it.  Otherwise I will have to stop shooting for a few months until I can save enough money to get it fixed.  I’ll take a look at my Nikon tomorrow after it’s dried out and see if it’s really broken or not.