We decided to build our own lighting stage in the office in order to shoot some DVDs for Sport Science Lab.  Check out the setup in the first photo.  Three 1000W Work Lights difused through some semi-opaque sheets positioned about 6 or 7 feet from the subject.  We were able to find the backdrop at a store up here in oceanside called "Photo Backdrops".  Who would have thought they carried backdrops!

How did it work you ask?  We got plenty of light on the front of the subject.  Perhaps a bit too much on his right side.  We ran out of lights (there are a couple of office lights above him) so we had nothing to light the backdrop with--resulting in fairly apparent shadows when he jumps.  All in all though, pretty successful for our first attempt at building our own lighting stage.  We're planning to reshoot the footage we captured on this shoot, next time with some color-gel equipped lights lighting the ground and backdrop to help us minimize moving shadows.  We're all looking forward to round two of the experiment--all in a day's work at the Enemy of Good Enough.

I had the distinct pleasure of designing the new Sport Science Lab Tshirts last week.  Terry was driving to work and happened to see a truck with a "Warning: Explosives" sign on the side of it, and thought it was a terriffic symbol to associate with Sport Science Lab.  I agreed wholeheartedly, and gave him some designs to look at. Most of them looked about like the one to the right. A pretty sweet shirt, in my humble opinion.  In fact, this is the one I cast a vote for (in a variety of colors).

I went ahead and made a grungy version, however, just for kicks.  Whenever I'm comping up something for someone I usually try to make seven or eight version that I think they will like then one more that sticks out like a sore thumb, in this case, it was a grungy version.  Lo and behold, when Terry passed around a sheet of options the grungy one was picked three or four times as much as the next option.  So, we now have a rockin' new Sport Science Lab tshirt.  Click the thumbnail below for a full size version.  It is available now from the Sport Science Lab Store.

Every job has its perks, and working for the Enemy of Good Enough is no different.

Anyone who knows us knows that we're sports fans.  Everyone who works in the office.  I'm not sure if it's something that Terry and Marilyn look for or not, but I'm not complaining.

One of our clients, Sport Science Lab are renowned athletic trainers who work with such dominant professional athletes as Troy Polamalu, Sammy Davis, Jim Edmonds and Tyson Chandler--not to mention dozens of up-and-coming highschool and college level athletes.

I've met Tyson Chandler and Troy Polamalu on separate occaisions when we were shooting miscellaneous athletic videos for these guys.  I've gotta say, for the first two athletes I've met these guys were very cool.  Completely down to earth, friendly and helpful.  It's a pretty well agreed upon sentiment that athletes make poor role models for our kids--but guys like Troy and Tyson completely blow that out of the water.  Too bad they don't get as much face time as someone like T.O.--if they did I dare say the world would be a slightly better place.

One final note--Tyson's pose with Garth and me is about 99% the same.  This guy has the taking-photos-with-fans thing down.  Might as well have taken one photo and shopped anyone else into it.