Tech Booth

About a month or so ago, Charles wanted me to take some pictures of all the action that goes on in the tech booth at CBC. He was getting ready to go to China and wanted some photos to show the tech guys in China.

Here's a shot of Caleb working the mixer. He's talking to the camera operators and asking for certain shots. He's kind of the director for what you see on TV and video.


This is one of the camera operators that Caleb is ordering around. If I'm not mistaken, this is camera 2 being operated by Jameson.


This is my husband on Camera 3.


Caleb is working the mixer changing his live camera shot.


The view from behind Caleb. It kind of gives you a sense of what Caleb is looking at.


This is Jill. She's another person that Caleb directs. She's operating the computer that does computer graphics for what you see on television. She doesn't have to do the songs like PowerPoint, but she does have to pay close attention during the sermon to make sure she's showing the correct slide.


Hi Caleb. You're doing a great job but I really think you need to show me less attitude! You're not Steven Spielberg ... yet!


There are two different sound systems: one for in house (what you hear while you're in the service) and one for video (what you hear on CD or DVD). This is a picture of Nick's arm as he makes some adjustments to the video sound.


This is a shot of the whole board that Nick is working.



And a close up shot. There sure are a lot of buttons to play with.


This is what Nick does after he plays with a button. He prays that he didn't mess things up.


Hi Nick. I'm glad you know what all those buttons do. Please don't call in sick!


This next shot is the MOST important piece of equipment the church has. It's a piece of equipment that gets all of the tech people going.


Ahhh. Gotta have that cup o' Joe to get the old eyes open and brain functioning.



And if the coffee doesn't get you wired, there's always the real stuff. Lots and lots of wires.


This is Patricia. Well, it's Patricia's arm and she's working the computer that operates the PowerPoint. This is what the congregation sees on the screens in the service. If she doesn't move a slide forward during worship, you don't know what to sing and you just stand there mumbling and pretending that you know the words to the song.


This is my brother, Craig. He's the one who's in charge of all things technical for the church.


This is Charles. He's Craig's right hand man. Charles' second language is Geek.


When he's not fixing slides, turning on equipment, troubleshooting all things techie, or singing Final Countdown, he can be found beating up on some of the unpaid help. Or at least giving them "The Eye!"


Charles is good. He's right by your side should you let out an exasperated sigh, which in Geek means that something has gone wrong.


I think Charles deserves a raise. Or a round of applause.


This next piece of equipment is ... uh ... gee, I don't know what it does. Maybe someone can give a little help. It's in a dark room and I know it's pretty important but I'm just not sure what it's purpose is.



And this doohickey thingy changes what the congregation sees on the screen. It's what puts the live shots from the cameras on the wall.


For instance, this baptisim was captured on camera and projected onto the screens.



This is a picture of Craig as someone was talking to him about a perceived problem.


One more of my brother as he's working hard. I think he's wishing I'd get out of his face!


A Dog and a Butterfly

A dog ...





... and a butterfly.



The end.

Flower

This is a picture of one of my flowers after it was converted to one of my favorite Lightroom presets.



Daisy

July was a busy month. Between Maxx being here and Floyd being here, construction of our garage, and life in general, time just flew by. Although we hardly knew Floyd was here because, well, Floyd was hardly here. He'd leave for Savannah before I got up and returned home after I went to bed.

For all my Facebook friends, this note is actually my blog post. I have my blog synced to FB notes so that I'm forcing all of you to read my blog. So there!

I've had several photography projects for friends this past month (I'll blog about each another time), my latest one for my sister-in-law. She wanted pictures of daisies. The only place I knew that might have daisies was Lowes and so I took my camera to see what I could see. I wasn't certain they would have them so I prayed and sure enough, Lowes had lots of daisies.

They only had three colors yellow, pink and red. Now mind you, I decided to go at high noon and real photographers don't take pictures at high noon. Why? The lighting is too harsh and colors are washed out. But I'm not a real photographer so this is what I got.

There were yellow ones.



And pink ones.




And red ones.




I don't know if this is anything she can use or even if she'll like them.




I told her to let me know what her vision is and I'll go again.




If you like daisies, Lowes has a bunch of them.



MCP Actions Giveaway

MCP Actions is having a giveaway and she's giving away camera lenses. The following will give you the scoop and I've provided a link to her website so that you can enter this wonderful contest yourself. Now go to MCP Actions and get yourself enrolled to win a new lens!


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I am very excited to have my 1st BIG lens give away on the blog. Tamron USA, Inc. is sponsoring the MCP contest for a brand new lens. The WINNER chooses from the 18-270mm (for a crop sensor Nikon or Canon) or the 28-300mm (for a full frame Nikon or Canon).

This would be an amazing lens to have for travel when changing prime lenses is inconvenient. I can just picture this lens on a trip to Disney World.

To enter, you will need to do the following:

- Post to your blog, twitter and/or facebook about this contest (let people know how to enter and provide a link)

- Come back here and leave a comment writing where you posted (with link so that it can be verified if your post is picked from the random drawing)

- In your comment, please write why you want to win this lens, where you would want to most the lens, and for fun tell us how many lenses you currently own.

To qualify, you must:

- Have a US mailing address that the lens can ship to – this can be yours or a friend or relative but make sure you have one prior to entering (Tamron USA is only authorized to sell and distribute in the US)

- Have a Camera that works with Tamron Lenses. If you do not have a Nikon or Canon SLR, a similar range lens for Pentax or Sony will be substituted.



Flowers

This year's flowers have produced different colors.




This is a color that we had last year. I took two shots of it with different focus on each.





Last is a light yellow. It almost looks desaturated but pretty, nonetheless.


Playing with the Camera



What do you think he's thinking?