USS Extras.

Some random shots from the USS shoot yesterday, mainly of Michael the Arts editor and Jaime. White Balance did something strange, so I’m not too sure whats going on there, but they have a nice polaroid-ey feel to them – I kinda like it so I didn’t put too much into fixing these up, just some curves and sharpening. I was using my new Nikon 35mm DX 1.8G on my D90, shooting at ISO 250 at 1/640 F4. The 35 1.8 is a great little lens, incredibly sharp and fast, my only issue with it is that the bokeh isn’t the most attractive I’ve seen, nothing compared to my Nikon 80-200 2.8D – but at $300, you get what you pay for I guess. Still a great lens that I highly reccommend.

We did the shoot on location at the Sound Academy parking lot, and after waiting for over an hour outside in what started out as a beautiful day, USS finally came out to meet us. We managed to get into the parking attendant’s booth (after much confusion with both the parking attendant and some circuit breakers) who had a power outlet inside, and were able to plug the blender in there. Not having a table or any sort of support for the blender, we used what was originally an automatic parking gate box that once had the arm to let cars in or out mounted to it.

After making an enormous fruit-filled mess, the shoot was over, and a success. USS enjoyed the gifts we brought them – bananas, strawberries, oranges, fruit juice, a blender, and caution tape – and had a great time outside making smoothies in the parking lot. We left them the fruit, blender and caution tape to use in their show. In their last song, they made smoothies on stage with the fruit we brought them, and one of their “dancers” poured the remains of the smoothie we made outside all over his hairy, bare chest.