[Leica] will technology save you from poor planning?

[leicaslacker at gmail.com (kyle cassidy on the lug)]

So last week I got a call from a promoter asking if I could race down town & 
do a promo shot for two bands who were crossing paths and have a 
collaborative EP coming out, they had a five minute slot at 7 pm. I packed 
my gear ran down to the venue, scoped out a location in a field nearby set 
up my lights and discovered that I'd forgotten the cable that connects the 
flash to the pocket wizard (loaned to a wedding photographer two weeks ago & 
foolishly not put back in the bag). With five minutes before the band was to 
arrive I had to put my faith in technology and shoot by moonlight as well as 
convince everybody that had been my plan the whole time. 

I cranked the asa to 128,000 and by putting the camera on a light stand was 
able to hold it steady enough to get a shot at 1/20th sec at f 5.6.

Back in the bat cave I made two layers and ran severe noise reduction on one 
and merged the two until I found a happy medium between grain and detail. 
Desaturated because of an overly blue sky and garishly green grass. After my 
minor heart attack, everyone walked away happy.



   http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/moonlight.jpg



thinking now of TAPING a spare PW cable to the PW itself in a sort of "in 
case of emergency" sort of manner....