Ken’s Shoot Notes Blog

Go Big! Digital displays at the URMC Discovery Ball

Posted on May 12th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Skills, Photo, PhotoJava, Rochester NY, Events.

For the URMC Discovery Ball, we created several huge displays. This one was about 20 feet wide and was the scrim that then opened at the transition to the dinner hour. It is 16×9 format HD and it included a timelapse of a two hour sunset from the new Wilmot Cancer Center building.

Over about 10 minutes, you could see the sunset through the windows, while people came and went, cars drove by and the lights came on… it was a big hit and guests stood there just watching it. The display then included some of my ‘beauty views’ of the new building from the outside fading toward sunset.

Thanks to Ron Cronk for his help during the 3 hours we worked on this shoot!

This display of our work was 5′ tall prints (thanks to some great help from our local Kodak friends!)

The goal was really to bring the new building to the guests.

Thanks for the fun, creative projects Kim & everyone at URMC & the Cancer Center!

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And the Answer is… the World’s First Digital Camera!

Posted on November 10th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Equipment, Photo, Teaching, PhotoJava, Rochester NY, Famous People, Events.

Yes, the presentation I’ve been hinting at in earlier posts was on the first digital camera as developed by Kodak in 1976… it was an awesome presentation and a real peek at history.

This is the mission statement of the ‘Camera of the Future’ project.

TV Output

Kodak Digital Milestones

It recorded to cassette tape.

As you saw in the earlier posts, I wasn’t the only one geeking out on seeing the camera… what’s so cool about being the photog for GEH is being able to go up on stage and get the cool angles, and to meet the people involved… what a great event. It was all part of a Leica symposium held at GEH.

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RIT Tiger

Posted on October 13th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Funny, Photo, Rochester NY, Colleges, Events.

Ahhh… I finally got the joke, while editing for the RIT Reunion.

RITchie the RIT Tiger was given a button with a tiger on it and people told me to take a photo of it… which I did (what great customer service

Anyway, as I was editing, I noticed that I took many photos of the (human) alumni with buttons showing them in their younger days…

…and it finally hit me, that the button was funny because it was the RIT Tiger in his young college days too.

The ladies from the RIT archive or alumni office that pulled the photos from the yearbook and made buttons must have stumbled onto an old RITchie graphic and made it for him too… hee… he looks a bit down in his college days though, don’t you think??  Maybe he wasn’t the cool athletic-type he is today.

PS- I’m thrilled we have the new RITchie costume (sorry to spoil the magic for anyone, but he’s not real). The old one had such a broken up nose, that I spent hours in Photoshop retouching it in every alumni photo. Now I can relax and enjoy shooting the RITchie antics.

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Two Good Hints

Posted on October 13th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Skills, Equipment, Teaching, PhotoJava, Rochester NY, Famous People, Events.

It was an event at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House and Kodak was involved.

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The Magic Box

Posted on October 12th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Photo, Teaching, PhotoJava, Rochester NY, Famous People, Events.

What is this box that garnered such attention…

Come back for a hint tomorrow.

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Les is More

Posted on October 12th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Personal, Photo, Teaching, Rochester NY, Colleges, Famous People, Events.

I love seeing my old professor Les Stroebel (left in the photo) at the RIT Reunion each year.

Les was one of my profs for ‘Materials & Processes of Photography’ (known as M&P, it was every science rolled into one class… we learned photography down to the atomic level!)
So Les and John Compton did a great job making a tough class interesting and useful and when we had our final class, we created a ‘Les is More’ banner that hung in the class and we all wore similar buttons.

One lesson I have today from that class is that the real, solid basics will never go out of fashion. The same histograms we learned (and honestly thought we’d never use, are part of my everyday life in Photoshop and in-camera, judging exposure… the histogram is the hills and valleys plot of how bright/dark a photo is).

This year Les beat me to the punch, he said:
‘Hi Ken, You looked surprised when I beat you to the punch and took this picture.’

and sent me this photo:

and here’s my photo of him at the same time… OK, Les won…

I’ll get him next year 

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