woke up at 5:20am with intent to leave home by 5:40am but ended up having a little time to drink coffee and have one of nima’s amazing homemade greek yogurt/protein-rich cinnamon rolls. my model for today’s shoot slept past her alarm, which is honestly not a bad thing because the forecast said it would be sunny this morning but it’s heavily overcast and drizzling at the moment. i see sunny skies still on the agenda for the morning around 9am and at this rate, we should be just in time to catch the cloud break. so basically, perfect timing.

i’ll definitely need to take some shut eye at some point this afternoon, but we’ll worth it for a photo shoot.

i’m actually super excited for this shoot because it will be my first using the eos rp. i can’t wait to see how the camera performs - especially in the context of autofocus - and how the images turn out. from my test shooting over the past few days i’m confident that it’s going to get the job done. but this is definitely a proof of concept and i’m a little nervous to have left my 5d mark iii at home.

so to ease my mind, here is a list of things i’m looking forward to:

• touch and drag auto focus,

• continuous object tracking in servo,

• leveling and histogram info in the electronic viewfinder,

• touchscreen zooming for image review during the shoot, and,

• the ability to instantly review photos through the canon connect app on my ipad after the shoot so we can pick our faves.

that last item is especially great to me. it’s really hard to judge a photo from the back of the camera. there is an added bonus to the canon connect app, too. i can download the keepers directly to my ipad and potentially even edit them using lightroom cc while i’m on the train ride home i’m not 100% on that last part since i may need to have internet access for the app to work, but now is as good a time as any to give it a try.

once i’m done with the photo shoot, i’m going to make a video about it. i think this is a camera that is in need of a real world review, because if i were to have listened to the reviews, i never would have bought it, and that would’ve been a mistake. or, at least, that is my hypothesis.