{"id":45911,"date":"2018-08-26T18:09:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=45911"},"modified":"2020-04-24T00:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:44:07","slug":"inspiration-be-cool-be-prepared-be-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/inspiration-be-cool-be-prepared-be-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration:  Be cool, be prepared, be professional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JIFdMbhCa94\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>Inspiration: Be cool, be prepared, be professional. Be like SRV.<\/h1>\n<p>My favorite clip of Stevie Ray Vaughan in action. A guitar string breaks &#8230; and he fluidly swaps out guitars mid-performance. If you closed your eyes, you wouldn&#8217;t even know.<\/p>\n<p>From that I take my inspiration as a photographer. I am prepared. I am over-prepared. My back-ups have back-ups. I try and anticipate any possible worst-case situations.<\/p>\n<p>And should something go wrong, there isn&#8217;t even a ripple on the surface.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class='one_half'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, I accidentally kicked the tethering cable during a corporate headshot photo session. My Nikon D810 and 70-200mm f\/2.8 fell off the table, hit the floor hard, and the lens broke off in the lens mount.<\/p>\n<p>I simply picked up the pieces and put them away, and got my other camera with the 100mm f\/2.8 lens to continue. (I use the smaller, lighter lens as my backup lens for headshots.)<\/p>\n<p>My client mentioned afterwards that I didn&#8217;t even react. And that&#8217;s how it should be.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class='one_half last'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/various\/broken-photo-gear.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"469\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class='clear'><\/div><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where am I headed with this, you may well ask? Back-ups! Redundancy! Slick professionalism!<\/p>\n<p>Along this line of thought: I shoot with my cameras using both memory cards: RAW + RAW. Not RAW + JPG. If something should go wrong, I don&#8217;t want to add to my misery by now having to edit JPGs from scratch. RAW + RAW. I also shoot with two memory cards that have huge capacity, in each camera. I don&#8217;t want to swap out memory cards during a shoot &#8211; that&#8217;s just asking for cards to get lost. The cards stay in the camera!<\/p>\n<p>And you may well say that you shoot portraits \/ corporate work \/ headshots \/ commercial work &#8230;. you know, stuff that would appear to not be as sensitive to critical failure like a wedding would be. Losing a memory card on a wedding would be &#8230; maaaaan, I can see you could easily damage your business permanently, depending on how it plays out.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so you shoot portraits \/ corporate work \/ headshots \/ commercial work &#8230; I can guarantee you that if you went back to your client with an &#8220;oops, my memory card failed&#8221;, you are very likely to lose them as a client. Maybe, maybe they might shrug it off and reschedule, but that is a heavy calculated risk. And an unnecessary one. Shoot RAW + RAW. Even if you shoot tethered.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story? Be like Stevie Ray Vaughan. Be cool, be prepared, be professional, and just motor along like nothing went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Related links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/category\/essays-discussions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">essays and discussions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiration: Be cool, be prepared, be professional. Be like SRV. My favorite clip of Stevie Ray Vaughan in action. A guitar string breaks &#8230; and he fluidly swaps out guitars mid-performance. If you closed your eyes, you wouldn&#8217;t even know. From that I take my inspiration as a photographer. I am prepared. 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