Last week I had the pleasure of photographing Ignite Portland 8 at Portland’s historic Bagdad Theater. The Ignite events are always fun, with a variety of fast-paced presentations on all sorts of crazy subjects. This event lived up to that description with topics including barbershop singing, makerbots, and pants-less comedians.
Ignite at the Bagdad is always a photographic challenge – the theater is very dark and I’m shooting without any strobes. Here are a couple images from the event, as well as my sponsor message. The event sponsors are featured in 30 second videos… I came on board rather last-minute, but I was able to put together a quick video for Hockley Photography.
As I mentioned previously, I’m excited to be a sponsor for the 30 Hour Day, a first-of-its-kind charity telethon being broadcast for 30 continuous hours. As I type this, there’s around nine hours remaining. With the tagline of “No sleep. All for charity.”, Hosts Cami Kaos and Rick Turoczy (and an all volunteer crew of 25+ folks) are running a great program of entertainment while raising money for three worthy causes.
I was onhand for the first 12 hours of the event and I’ll be headed down for the last six hours. I’m uploading photos to this set on Flickr; here are a few of my favorites from last night:
A few weeks ago I photographed an evening of sales and marketing discussion for the Software Association of Oregon. It was a fun night with a lot of spirited sales stories being shared. Here are a couple of my favorite images, featuring two of the speakers.
Let me capture your event in photos – contact me and let’s work out the details.
Things have been quiet for Hockley Photography both here on the blog and in general over the past couple of months. I’ve been involved with a few conferences that have taken a fair amount of my time although I’ve been working a few small events and jobs such as headshots. I’ve also been spending a fair amount of time on Social Photo Talk, an arm of Hockley Photography that focuses on social media for photographers.
Things should be picking up with the regular photo business soon. I have a few events coming up that should provide some good opportunities for new venues and experiences.
Here’s a photo I took last weekend while killing some time on a Sunday morning following WordCamp Seattle:
I love event photography because it’s always interesting to see how things go once a bunch of people are together and their interaction drives a wide range of photographic opportunity. Last month at the Open Source Bridge conference, a couple of the sessions were swapped between rooms due to the size of anticipated crowds. One of the sessions being moved? Assholes are Killing Your Project. The other session was about teaching children about software. When the impromptu sign for the room change was made, this is what I found:
An event photographer needs to go with the flow and work with often-changing plans.
