PEX summer festival underwater!

topic posted Fri, June 26, 2009 - 8:34 PM by  Lars
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I'll be doing underwater portraits in the swimming pool at PEX fest.

Come find me, I'll be the guy on the bottom of the pool holding his breath (and a camera).
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Lars
Virginia
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  • Re: PEX summer festival underwater!

    Sun, June 28, 2009 - 7:29 PM
    All I heard was...

    "You need to make underwater poi."

    Let me get right on that...
    • Re: PEX summer festival underwater!

      Sun, June 28, 2009 - 9:40 PM
      Remember to put a class D fire on your underwater poi.
      • Re: PEX summer festival underwater!

        Mon, June 29, 2009 - 5:24 AM
        "Remember to put a class D fire on your underwater poi."
        Done
        • Re: PEX summer festival underwater!

          Mon, June 29, 2009 - 11:30 AM
          You can do anything DD... you rock.

          By the way, Transformus plans on having a class D fire in the Effigy Burn this year... unfortunately they probably WONT be holding the main burn at the bottom of the pond. :(
          • Re: PEX summer festival underwater!

            Mon, June 29, 2009 - 12:04 PM
            i hear there will be a class D effigy @ the PEX Summer Festival... who knows these days and these crazy people

            im going back to snuggling
            • Re: PEX summer festival underwater!

              Mon, June 29, 2009 - 4:06 PM
              Will it be at the bottom of the pond? :)
              • Re: PEX summer festival underwater!

                Mon, June 29, 2009 - 6:18 PM
                maybe i missed it, but what day are you doing this? or is it just at random times?
                • Re: PEX summer festival underwater!

                  Tue, June 30, 2009 - 12:04 AM
                  You didn't miss it. There are issues with setting a day and time.

                  I don't know when the pool is least crowded until I get there... we cant have people diving in and slamming into me on the bottom, or swimming through the shot. I don't want to monopolize part of the pool during busy times either.

                  I don't know when people are even available to be photographed with all the workshops and performances and events that are scheduled all over the place... I'll have to sort that out on site somehow. If I set a time now either nobody will show up or I'd pull people away from an event they really want to go to. I want to be flexible to people's schedules.

                  I'll probably try to do it at least once a day. I'm going to be diving to the bottom, holding my breath for a ridiculous amount of time, then swimming back up and doing it all over again. I'm not sure how long I can do this before I either pass out or my ears rupture... so It'll probably happen sporadically and will be driven mostly by when I'm not busy and when people who want their picture taken are also not busy.

                  I think a good method would be to leave a whiteboard near the pool with the time that I plan on shooting that day on it. So people can wander by and see it and know when to come back (do people wear watches at burns?). Problem is I don't have a whiteboard. :(

                  So yeah, not random times, but not really specific times at this point either.

                  I'm pretty sure we'll have a second underwater photographer as well... so there should be plenty of opportunities to be photographed.

                  Its a burn... all plans are going to go out the window anyway, and everything will fall into place somehow... right? :)
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                    Re: PEX summer festival underwater!

                    Tue, June 30, 2009 - 5:21 PM
                    Yippie! Sounds like the most concrete plan ever :) Glad you ate those pellets :)
                    • Re: PEX summer festival underwater!

                      Wed, July 1, 2009 - 1:35 AM
                      A whiteboard will be posted at the pool listing the time(s) for each day.

                      Myself and another photographer will be switching off at multiple times throughout the weekend. This will allow for twice as many opportunities.

                      Its a do-ocracy... if you want a set time... do your own underwater shoot. :)

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