yesterday resulted in a site evaluation for a shoot on Friday at one location and a TBD date at another.  I did get some test shots in of a product, a special new concept from a high end fridge / freezer maker.  The lighting was mixed, the space cramped, and no direct on view to use, the transform tool will be employed in the post of these samples.

class was short today, so I must get home to pack and prep my equipment for the next two days shoots, a combination of group, individual head shots and location capture and that product shot noted above.  I do have an able bodied assistant for both days.  lights, camera stand, and all the needed items for a successful location shoot will be taken. 

good photog assistant help is essential to having enough time and energy to concentrate on the photo aspects and not the physical set up and other such duties. 

classmates have dwindled, good and bad, good as more time and attention will be allowed for those still there, but we now will miss the contributions of those departed.  learning from others is always a good thing, so to deplete that resource is not the best thing to have happened.

One of the challenges we got for our blog and growth plan within this class, is to weekly pick someone that we wish to share, learn, etc   I know of a very talented artist, he specializes in fine art and business portraits locally.  I have taken a class with him at his home studio, a magnificent site, in terms of size and space and equipment.  His name is Jim Trotter.  His web site is

	http://www.trotterart.com

I continue to follow him on Facebook, and his work is amazing.  He shoots with Hasselblad digital equipment mostly and puts together the most detailed gigapan pieces.  These are made up of thousands of pictures taken while a camera is on a special piece of equipment that moves the camera in a specific pattern to support this task.  I do not know much about the actual process, just that the detail in this resulting output is phenomenal.