Better Late Than Never Wednesday: Yes, Bloggers Do Have Faces; Helicopter Videos: New Radio Poppers

Good Evening Everybody,
I'm breaking from my regular series, The Analysis of A Wedding Shoot, to bring you a few updates on what we've discovered at the WPPI Tradeshow. The last few days I've been shooting some videos of some of the celebrity speakers giving their presentations at the various booths in the trade show.

My idea was to pick up a tip or two from each one of them and share them with our DPT readers today. Late programing and early wake up calls today kept me from posting earlier today. So, if all goes well look for it tomorrow. I've got video snipits of Joe McNally, Michele Celentano, Hanson Fong, and Mary Fisk-Taylor. There are some good ideas there so I hope you enjoy it.

Conventions do make the posting a bit inconsistent. I thought I was going to bail today but I found a few minutes, get this, at the Bloggers Lounge at WPPI. Yep, even Spidy was there. Oh.... the addiction of all this. I wonder what Freud would have said about all this blogging. Anyway it has been a great show in Las Vegas - over 12,000 people - a new record - have attended the trade show and programs! - Unbelievable!

New Radio Poppers Hit The Market!
While I was in the middle of the post I got a call from Kevin King, the inventor of the very popular Radio Poppers. He was showing the models at the show and is letting me give them a try when we get back in town - I can't wait to run them thru their paces. I headed over to the Radio Popper blog and there is a ton of info and videos on these handy dandy little dudes. Here is the link - worth the peak. That's a picture of famous blogger, Syl Arena, from Pixsylated.com helping me test them on the show floor.

Bloggers Have Faces Too
I'll tell ya', when you blog you get emails and comments from other bloggers. For me, I always check out their site to see whats up. Kerry Garrison from CameraDoJo.com fame dropped me an email and we planned to hook up today. Shortly after that, I received a note from Syl Arena from Pixsylated.com about hooking up at the show too. So as we found each other amongst the crowds we had a great visit talking blog stuff while LaDawn just rolled her eyes at the whole thing. I really don't get it - Kerry, Syl and I along with the hundreds and thousands fellow bloggers have simply figured out the meaning of life;~)

The bottom line was this, it was like meeting old friends you haven't seen (in forever). We had a great visit. In the photo, from left to right is me, Kerry, and Syl.

Kerry just put up another post, "Understanding Exposure". Here is the link. Syl was telling us about his experiments with high speed flash sync and hooked up 12 - yes 12 - Canon 580 EX II flashes with Radio Poppers and used the set up for some very interesting images. Check out his post right here where he used the multi-$1000 rig to photograph Ben Willmore - very interesting. Anyway, I hope we all get to catch up again.

Video From A Remote Controlled Helicopter
Yep, you read right - this had to be the most interesting product I saw at the show. For under $300, you could buy a remote controlled helicopter complete with video camera, transmitter, and receiver! The company selling the helicopter was DigitTronics - here is their link. The demonstration was so cool. The gentleman in the booth would show how easy it was to control the helicopter and we could all see the video image on the monitor - definitely a "toy" for the kid in lots of us. Yep, I bought one - can't wait to see how it works.

Hey gang, I know it's late for me and I've got to go. Dinner plans with friends happen in less than an hour. I'm planning to cut the video together from the show so look for it tomorrow afternoon - remember, I'm on Pacific time this week. So I'll see everybody then. -David