It’s hard to let go of an event after you have spent weeks preparing for it, Days setting up and tearing down and 16 hour days of shooting and editing. Such is the case for me after finishing the 2021 Jr NFR at Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth Texas. I continue to edit, tag, build slide shows and back-up Files and Lightroom, filling orders and answering email.

After Getting the Nod to shoot the event as the exclusive photographer, we added a complete new light set of Profoto D2’s and B1x’s. After using the Profoto acute B for 10 years it was time to upgrade. Challenge, with no time to test at a event before the rodeo we had to set up a double light system to insure proper lighting till we could be certain the new lights did the trick. By the second day we had tested and corrected a few issues with the new lights and reposition the old ones. With a total of thirteen strobes set up in combinations through out the event over the six day shoot, it looked like daylight in that dungeon!

Although it had it’s share of challenges, all in all it worked out better than I could have hoped, due in part  to the fact that I didn’t have to spend any time behind the computer, just the camera ( my favorite place on earth). We hired a full time editor for the event to work and upload images immediately. Since we don’t upload without touching every image, his days were longer than ours. What an amazing job he did.

Can’t say enough good about the folks at PRCA’s  jr.Rodeo, and the production crew of the Jr NFR, this event ran like a well oiled machine. It helps when you work with people that love their job and are very good at it!

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