Focus 2012 - impressions

[Hodders]

Well got back from focus last night.

Lowlights:
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* Even though went on Monday still v.crowded

* Not as many seminars/demos as last year

* Loads of pervy blokes taking photos of very bored looking models in semi darkness

Highlights:
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*Canon stand which means I could get my hands on the 5d3 and the 1dx

*Flashed CPS card and got a nice coffee and a chat with a canon rep and got to play with a 5d3 at some length. It does really seem to be the answer to everything I had on my mental wishlist over and above the 5d2 which I have and love

*1Dx also looked lovely felt very fast and the high frame rate just seemed crazy

* Spent about 15 minutes in the CPS area talking to Lara Jade about life, the world and stuff. She is sickening - talented, motivated, young and nice enough you cant help but like her !

* Also went to a couple of Martin Oliver seminars that gave me some good ideas of how to improve what I do especially the sales process.

So much better than last year - some good seminars and a nice play with some bodies I am definatly going to want.....

 

[Hodders]

To be fair I didn't go to her seminar and only looked at a few of her images. Good clean commercial stuff. What I like is that as a model first she sees it from the other way round. I see a picture in my head and the gap between that and what I end up with is a measure of how good I am getting. She gets some pretty good stuff. Sure she is maybe not technically perfect but she has a damm good "eye" !

Still she is happy to spend 15 mins talking to a small time photographer from Wiltshire and came across as really unaffected - and most peopel in her position usually have a fair bit of arrogance to them.

 

[Hodders]

Top marks to anyone with the confidence to chat her up - I was just trying not to dribble ! And yes she does look alarmingly like that IRL.