Things are relatively slow around here so I thought I would take a few moments and talk about one of the regular jobs that get tossed our way and how I shoot it.

I have noticed that for events that take place in the auditorium I follow certain steps.  When it comes to presentations in our auditorium there isn’t much change from one event to the next.  The podium stays in the same place, some times there is PowerPoint and other times not.  Other options are panel discussions or not.  But aside from the random event, nothing is that much different.  Sure it is a little repetitive but in my former life (previous job) I was stuck in the booth running the events so at least I’m given a different angle to work with.  There are the fun events - especially off-site visits - and it isn’t like these events are horrible, they just are part of the routine.

In the back of the auditorium there is a half-height wall that separates the seating from what we use as the press area.  Typically that area goes unused (unless large events occur) so I can set up shop back there.  For these events I swap back and forth between the 17-55 and the 70-200.  Taking up the table I tend to lay out all my gear so I can quickly change out the lenses.  I have debated on pulling up the D2X with me and slapping a lens on each but I really love the way the D3 has very little noise on higher ISO settings, around the 2000 range.  I like how using a setting of 2000 I can get a more dramatic image and retain what is being projected on the screen since I don’t have to use a flash.  Tossing the long lens on the D2X and using a flash from the back of the room works out ok, but again, the deeper image from the non-flash D3 images look better to us.