Tiger Energy Services Christmas Party

Hello everyone. This past Saturday I was hired to shoot the Tiger Energy Services Christmas Party. The event went according to plan, as all employees of Tiger showed up and had a good time enjoying the party. It was held in downtown Fullerton and ran for several hours.

I was there for about 5 hours. One hour was spent setting up my strobes and fixing my lighting for the photo booth that was present. I had originally intended for my intern to be there and run the photo booth himself, but since he was unable to, I received great help from fellow photographer, Peter Klemek. He photographed the party guests with the several props that were available to them.

As the night continued, I walked around for the remaining hours shooting as much as I could. Overall, Peter and myself took around 700 photos combined (that's a lot of editing!). Anyway, I had a great time shooting the Tiger employees and would like to give a huge thanks to Mr. Joe Baxter for hiring me to be a part of this great event.

I would also like to recognize the party planner who did a stupendous job, Ms. Brittany Boat. If anyone is looking for an event planner, I would definitely recommend Ms. Boat.

I shot these photos with my Canon 7D and my Canon XSi with 28-135mm and 18-55mm lens. I used a Canon Speedlite 580 EX 2 and a flash bracket to go along with it. As anyone who shoots with a Speedlite would know, batteries die rather quick; therefore, I also used an external battery pack for the flash.

The challenges I faced while shooting this event was a DEAD camera! My 7D died in the last hour of shooting. I quickly changed to my backup camera, the XSi. I had fully charged all cameras and batteries (about 20 of them) before the event and was surprised that my 7D only lasted about 4 hours, even with a battery grip. I'm glad I was prepared with a backup. If I did not have a backup camera...well that would just be unacceptable.

I shot all photos while on Program mode. I switched my white balance to flash and kept my ISO at 100. I'm still editing and watermarking the other photos. I expect to have all of them ready for my client within one week.

See ya and thanks for reading

Jake