Fiji – Day 2

These are my glasses. I have a penchant for Senior Citizens fashion. What can I say? I'm an old soul!

Fiji is really turning it on! The weather is perfect, just enough cloud to give the sky some interest without compromising the light every 2 minutes and light winds most of the time. The talent is starting to relax into things and really work the camera and the images are improving with every new setup. Smiles all round over here!

Right now, I’m back in the room after another full day shooting. As I type, Brett is sitting here talking about tomorrow’s schedule to one of the models, more just thinking out loud, getting things set in his head. It’s his way. . .but I digress. . .

Today went well, apart from some IT issues pertaining to the internet access here in Fiji at the moment, it was a resounding success. We are supposed to be launching fresh content online every day and we are tapping out at the worrisome upload speed of 4kb a second with dropouts rearing their ugly heads more often than oglers while we are shooting. We found our way around it all though and all the clients are stoked with yesterdays cuts.

Things kicked off today with some beach shots after breakfast, followed by a bit golf and tennis action. The 70-200mm f2.8 got a great run and really came up with the goods. . .We’re talking hair thin focus planes and backgrounds so blown it’s not funny. The footage looked great in camera. . .Now, we’ve just come back from the edit suite and the editor, Sean, has cut the best clip of that stuff. It’s fantastic and so good to see that he’s on the same page and a very talented creative.

We needed to get interviews with some of the punters who were at the beach party last night, so after shooting those in the afternoon on the EX1 (which was dusted off for it’s first use this trip. A testament to the quality of DSLR video.) we grabbed another solid sunset and it was game over.

Tomorrow is shaping up to be a crazy day, can’t wait for that one! Up in the chopper at 9am, aerial shoot over Denarau Island and then off to some other islands for an overnighter and lots more beach and watersport love. I’ll definitely get a bunch more photo’s tomorrow, and hopefully get them up tomorrow night if we can get access to the net over there.

I fully realise that I should probably stop crapping on and actually post some serious content, but at the moment, even writing this is proving to be quite the test. Anyway Christian, how about you just shut up and actually post something interesting to look at tomorrow instead of boring us with your lame stories. . .Point taken. . .I’ll do better next time. . .

Until then. . .