I was contacted by a girl I went to high school with a few weeks ago. She sits on a charity board, and they were working on an amicable biathlon organized within the business community to raise money for Ste-Justine Hospital, a world leader in neo-natal care. The board was looking for photographers to donate their time to cover the occasion to create promotional material, or Facebook-worthy material so participants can tag themselves on Facebook and create a small buzz about the event. There was a theme for the teams of three: they had to show up in costume, and incorporate a business suit into the disguise. Pretty fun!
Unfortunately, the weather was atrocious. We had pounding rain. There were seven other photographers (one Sony, the rest Canikon) and all were scraping for towels or stuff to cover their gear. And I, with my DA 50-135 and K5, was soaking wet but was laughing all the way to the bank ANYWAY because my gear is made for those conditions!
Light sucked, these were running people, so I had to bump ISO, but then again, the K5 handles it fine. No noise reduction used in this. In fact, only PP was in LR4 (basic slider ajdustments)
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In the end, we raised 360,000$ and it was all donated to the research center, so all-in-all, a good cause, a good challenge... a good day.