Friday, October 16, 2009

DAYS INN or A Room without a view

To be fair there actually was a view of an apt. bldg. parking lot.

Many hotels in the area were full so I stayed at the DAYS INN.

THE ROOM: fine, except it was 1/2 kilometer from the front desk, there was no elevator and I was on the 3rd floor. 3 heavy camera bags - some welcome exercise after a long drive. The bed was a king so I also had plenty of room to jog in my sleep. All in all not too bad.

THE FOOD: there was a $2 fee for room service but you had to go get it yourself!! I suppose they had to call a courier to pick up the empty plates next day. A good greek salad and an OK pork dinner with mashed and veg. Breakfast buffet - flashback to 1980's Cuban all inclusive. Eggs tasted terrible, powdered for sure. I made a joke to the waitress about the 3 oz juice glass and she returned with a normal size glass and in a good-natured way grabbed the little glass from my hand, poured the juice into the larger glass, then walked over to the juice table and topped it up for me.

COST: $171.04 with food and tax.

Would I stay there again? - sure, I've stayed in worse places.

Below is a photo from the job.





Sunday, October 4, 2009

Ringflash











Playing with ringflash as a fill light. I think I like it!!


Thursday, October 1, 2009

Light kit


My Profoto kit housed in an Airport Addicted case.

My ringflash and softlight reflector live in a much larger place. Its the case I originally bought for my Profoto Acute 2 kit. The Airport is a better home for the Acute2 and the Acute600b has its own teeny weeny little case. Love that kit!
The ringflash with beauty dish takes up too much space!