In fact. most of the email I get is very nice. This was sent from Beau Maisel of Costa Rico this morning:
Michael,
I watched your 7D and Speedlight DVD Courses twice this week and shot my first wedding with the new gear last night. I had confidence going in and was able to resolve the few missed shots I had quickly. I used multiple speedlights for some of the portraits with great results. The homemade diffuser worked great and I even had another photographer say, “I need to buy one of those”. The DVD’s were an excellent investment. I highly recommend them and you can quote me on that. The final shots need very little touch up and look amazing! Especially the ones where I shot into the sunset, which I always had trouble with before. I’m shooting another wedding this Wednesday.
Pura Vida,
Beau Maisel
Maisel Film
Costa Rica
P.S. The other photographer’s flash went out and I had to cover for him. I told him “2 are 1 and 1 is none” 🙂
I watched the speedlite video over the weekend too and absolutely feel more confident with using them! On a different note I wanted to share some invaluable info I recently learned. I had a shoot at the Dallas Arboretum on Saturday came home popped my CF card into the computer and the computer said there was an error in reading my CF card. I put the card back into my camera and ALL my images were gone. In a panick I did a quick internet search and found a a company http://www.cardrecovery.com that saved my butt! It worked! It recovered all my images from my CF card! It cost $39.95 plus an extra $15 if you wanted them to send you a cd of the software (which I got). I posted this on my FB page and it had recently happened to 2 other photographers and they were also able to recover their images. Michael taught me share what you know. I thought I would share this with all of his readers as it saved me, maybe it could save you one day. Hopefully it doesn’t but just in case it does :o)
Thank You Alexandra!, that is REALLY good to know, you can never be too careful…
Thanks again!
It must be fun opening your email every day. You never know what you will get. One day hate mail, one day love mail. Oh what fun to be you.! 🙂