I know that quite a few of the photos from my sites make their way around to Facebook, MySpace and other places and I’m generally ok with that if you credit where they are from or at least leave the watermarks intact as the copyright/terms of use/creative commons license say.  The site is targeted to parents and alumni as much as they are current students as well.  Given that there was a reasonable amount of light and I was using I was able to target individuals for features.  Some of these may be submitted for the high school yearbook later on, some of these will be posted on Facebook by myself or others, but hopefully you just enjoy being featured.  There’s no real reason as to who get’s featured, even though I did favor the guard more during this show as it is harder to capture the work in darker stadiums.  Being closer to the 50 and the fact that I am generally outside the 40s aiming in might have something to do with what sets are in there, but it’s whatever looks good at the moment.  I am not always able to judge or screen for technical accuracy, but I do try to make an effort when it’s only one person, so if there is something that’s really off and noticeable I’ll take it down.

For those who are willing to sign a model release and allow me to use the featured photos in my portfolio as I try to book more projects or enter them into contests, I’ll give you a free copy of the print.  For those who don’t want to be photographed individually, I can’t make any promises for formation, section or group photos but I’ll keep you out of anything on an individual level.  Just let me know.

If you have any comments on the photos, drop me a note, I’m always interested in feedback.  I accept requests throughout the season for band, indoor guard, musical, art/scenery/landscapes/places for my personal galleries so tell me what you are interested in seeing.  While you’re at it, take a minute to become a fan of Susquehanna Township Performing Arts on Facebook.  The address is http://www.facebook.com/STPerformingArts/.

Some of the other additions this weekend: I finally went through and processed all of the 2008 season videos that were given to me many months ago by Dave Miller along with the 2008 video from the top of Chambersburg’s stadium.  The quality may not be the best because I propped the camera on something instead of shooting with a tripod.

I’ve released the Susquehanna Township Performing Arts page on Facebook, so check it out and let me know what you would like posted and what you would like to see from me this year.  I encourage everyone to invite and tag your friends, and I will do my best to upload and tag something for all of the students and alumni if I have something in my collection.

Hopefully I’ll have some new content soon. Comments, suggestions, requests and submissions always accepted. I also could use the services of a graphic designer or web designer so contact me if you have any leads on that

If someone could send me a copy of the summer band schedule I would appreciate it. Other than that, I’ll be at the jazz band concert tomorrow night but can’t make Arts Fest on Saturday. Videos would be appreciated. More at a later date.

Help me cover the expenses of running the sites and traveling to PA by buying photos and DVDs or paypal me a couple bucks.

Photos from this year’s show are going to be the two performances only. It would have been too much work and too difficult to turn everything around from a rehearsal on a performance day and I didn’t want to go into the show blind (even though I can do that and still turn out good results). I was working on wedding photos last night from after dinner until past 3am and finished them up today. I’ve only been away from the computer long enough to do some laundry, take out the trash and get some sleep. Guess I’ll do my errands and grocery shopping after my CPR training tomorrow morning. I’m hoping to have act 1 completed and processed in time to upload everything from work on Sunday, anything more is a bonus.

A few people have asked about a video. Yes I did shoot a video from the booth of Saturday’s rehearsal and the two shows. I’m working on converting everything to digital format so I can do the editing. This was a completely unattended process, I haven’t watched everything during the conversion and haven’t decided on whether or not I’ll release it for public sale. It looks like if I do release it for sale you’ll get Saturday’s show plus Sunday’s presentations as the rehearsal was minus a few people and Sunday was shot with a filter as an experiment. I’ll make a decision once all the other work is completed and I’ve had time to prepare and preview a DVD. This is probably a few weeks away.

Questions/comments/requests are welcome. Comment, email, call, whatever.