David Griffin Photography

Girl Scouting in the United States started 100 years ago in 1912.  Just a few years later the first Girl Scout troop in Maynard was formed.  Several hundred Maynard Girl Scouts, past and present, gathered at Alumni Field to recite the Girl Scout Promise at 7:12pm  (19:12…  very clever girl scouts…)

My son, Jay, was kind enough to be a second shooter on this event.  His photos have camera id 580, mine are from 491. I also had a wide-angle shot up on the press box with an intervalometer taking an shot every 10 seconds. These shots were assembled into a time-lapse movie of the event (see below).

You can see more of the photographs at: http://community.dmg-photography.com/2012-gs-centennial

Technical: Jay had the 7D with a 24-70mm on a monopod.   I was shooting with a 40D, 70-200mm f/2.8 IS handheld.  The time-lapse was done with a 5DMk2 on sticks with a 16-35mm f/2.8 and an intervalometer.  I set the 5D to automatic exposure using a spot meter aimed at the grass in the center of the field, which gave a pretty good constant medium tone.   Photos processed with Lightroom 4 — mostly minor exposure tweaks.  The video frames were exported from Lightroom 4, imported into Final Cut Pro X  (which crashed my computer twice adding the titles — yikes!).

A few weeks ago Jason Carron and Nicolas Leo were searching for some photography that connected their new restaurant, Peyton’s River’s Edge, to both the river that flows behind the restaurant and the town they are in.  In addition to historical photographs they selected nine of my river and town photographs for the walls of the restaurant.

Here are a few of them being installed (I forgot to grab a shot of them in place — I will correct this soon).  We went with black&white versions of the images so they would provide a consistent feel across the wall.   It’s a nice mixture of Assabet River scenics and some iconic views of our little town. Overall everyone is happy with the results which is great.

I will have a small placard  near the entrance with this QR Code that will lead interested patrons to a page with more information about the photographs and links to the Maynard Historical Society and OARS, our local river stewardship organization.