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Quarantine 1 – Staying Busy

Staying Home

Neighborhood stream photographed during a daily quarantine walk in Falls Church, VA ©TimeLine Media
Neighborhood stream photographed during a daily quarantine walk

This quaratine time has been a tremendous change to our daily life. Everyone I am in contact with is working from home. Video conference calls are a daily event. Thankfully in this high tech time, everything is working!

What are you doing during this time that we are forced to stay at home? On one hand, I am working very similarly to how I did before. On the other, I have no photo shoots or events to plan. With this in mind, I have turned to working on my business. While I work at home, I have been listening to many podcasts and YouTube channels of other creatives. Similarly, the content has moved in parallel directions. There are tips on keeping productive, on cleaning up your contracts, on honing photography skills inside etc.

Holmes Run in Falls Church, VA stream in infrared ©TimeLine Media
Holmes Run stream in infrared

Quarantine 1

In contrast, I am not looking for things to do while staying at home. If I am successful with my efforts, my blog will hopefully look a lot more full! It has been an aspiration of mine to get back to blogging which I did more regularly. Seeing that it was a great way to document the photos shoots, and to remember what the environment was like when I made the photos.

Given that I enjoyed reviewing these posts, I want to go back to old events, and put them on the blog. At the same time, I will attempt to keep current with the posts as well. The photos from this Quaratine 1 post are from some of the daily walks. Every day we are taking walks, and bring a camera with me. These were taken with my first DSLR camera – the Nikon D100. It has a very low megapixel count, and I converted it to only capture infrared light.

So far it has been enough to capture something different when repeatedly passing the same areas over the last month! I hope you are staying safe at home. If you are getting around to do things that you were putting off until you had time to get to it, please let me know. Maybe there is something I should be doing that I have not thought to do yet.

Quaratine 1 walk through a neighborhood park, Falls Church, VA ©TimeLine Media
Quarantine 1 walk through a neighborhood park

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Profoto A1 High Speed Sync and Cherry Blossoms – Tech Tuesday

Woman portrait with cherry blossom background
Woman portrait with cherry blossom background
Falls Church cherry blossom tree in full bloom

Falls Church cherry blossom tree in full bloom

The cherry blossom have been in full bloom around the DC Area. This year, they have been particularly beautiful! They have the light puff ball look with very light colored blooms that really stands out against the bark of the surrounding trees.

Falls Church cherry blossom tree in full bloom

During this time of quarantine, I have been productive in my home studio. But keeping inside means I have not been going out of the house to make many photos. I know there are many projects that you can do while staying at home, but this was the first really purpose-driven photos I have done in a week. I was inspired do these first by the beautiful cherry tree of our neighbor that was in full bloom!

Camera Tech

Camera setup BTS for portrait shoot
Profoto A1, Nikon D850, blooming cherry tree

Next, I wanted to try the Hi Speed Sync options of the Profoto A1 flashes. This is a new piece of gear that I am still learning. I may be replacing all of my lighting gear to Profoto I the near future. If this does in fact come true, I will be sure to make a post about the reasons for it. But for this quick test shoot, I mounted one of the A1 flashes firing into a Westcott Rapid Box Octa with the outer diffusion panel installed. I did not use the deflector plate as the A1 does not completely fit the cut out for the speedlight on the back of the Octabox. The A1 has a circular face at its output and most speedlights are rectangular.

I used another Profoto A1 as a remote controller for the off-camera light, and it worked right away! The flash could keep up at 1/1000th to 1/8000th of a second, and it was still filling the entire frame with an even exposure. I am anxious to try this setup again as I really like the results. The resulting images were much more in balance with the background compared to an exposure without the flash. I was impressed with this first high speed sync experiment with this gear!

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2020 Annual Report – Tysons Partnership

Fairfax Chairman Jeff McKay at the Tysons Partnership Annual Report release event ©TimeLine Media
Fairfax Chairman Jeff McKay at the Tysons Partnership Annual Report release event ©TimeLine Media

Capital One Headquarters

Earlier this month the Tysons Partnership released their 2020 Annual Report. Being that this is the first event of the 3rd year working with them, I was proud to be included. Not only in this event, but seeing that many of my images were used throughout their report. In case you get a chance to download the report, please give me some feedback on the images in there.

Capital One HQ atrium during a Tysons Partnership event ©TimeLine Media
Capital One HQ atrium during a Tysons Partnership event ©TimeLine Media

Commercial photography has such a different audience compared to personal projects for clients. At the venue alone, there was a diverse group that was taking home printed examples of my work. As a result, there is a much better chance that I can refer to the report as an example of my previous experience. Thus it is another way for me to market my own skills while providing a needed service for my client. It really works both ways!

Auditorium at Capital One HQ for a Tysons Partnership event for the release of their 2020 Annual Report ©TimeLine Media
Auditorium at Capital One HQ for a Tysons Partnership event ©TimeLine Media
Jeff Tarae Chairman of the Tysons Partnership at Capital One HQ for their 2020 Annual Report ©TimeLine Media
Jeff Tarae Chairman of the Tysons Partnership at the 2020 Annual Report release event ©TimeLine Media
Jeffrey McKay Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors at Capital One HQ ©TimeLine Media
Jeffrey McKay Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors at Capital One HQ ©TimeLine Media
Auditorium at Capital One HQ for a Tysons Partnership event for the release of their 2020 Annual Report ©TimeLine Media
Auditorium at Capital One HQ for a Tysons Partnership event ©TimeLine Media
Victor Hoskins FCEDA President at Capital One HQ ©TimeLine Media
Victor Hoskins FCEDA President at Capital One HQ ©TimeLine Media
Networking at the atrium in the Capital One HQ for a Tysons Partnership event ©TimeLine Media
Networking at the atrium in the Capital One HQ for a Tysons Partnership event ©TimeLine Media

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