Work on Tentura camp and vehicle is almost complete! Installation of the support wheels proved to be a tricky craft mastered only in painful iterations. Now we need to disassemble the mutant vehicle and to transport the ATV, platform and the dome to Black Rock City. Will I be really able to sleep next to a working generator and amps/speakers blasting the music all night? Really? Hopefully my pack list is complete.I looked into a prior art of Burning Man photography and was amazed how restrictive the choice of subjects is - camp environment is very cluttered and therefore there are very few photos taken there. I hope that a canopy with walls will offer a workaround for me. Lauren Randolph is the most exciting photog I ran into while researching the subject of Burning Man photography. I am fascinated with her discipline of using an extremely restricted pallet of tools to such an awesome effect.
After debating with myself for ages what equipment to take I arrived at this plan: I am taking an aging Rebel XT body with a Sigma 30mm 1.4. I will totally cover it with gaffer tape in hope to protect it from elements. In the past efforts like these were not particularly successful. On the downside this plan limits me to a single normal lens and a body with a poor low light auto-focus performance - rather none at all. On the upside, I will be using a custom-built wearable rig for remotely triggered SB-24 flashes! I do intend to take my main camera with a full set of lenses but most likely will limit its use to few hours when the air is clean - late nights from what I hear.
