Shoot, print, sell!

Posted by Graeme Shiplee, ThatPhotoPlace.co.uk on 12th Nov 2009

ThatPhotoPlace.co.uk was asked, at relatively short notice...3 weeks!...to photograph the 600'ish guests at a Cinderella Ball in aid of Cancer Research UK held at the MK Dons Stadium in Milton Keynes on 30th October.

Once we'd taken a couple of deep breaths we got on the phone to System Insight, who are pretty much THE experts in this field, to get some advice on suitable printers and a workflow for this prestigious event. I was expecting Mitsubishi printers and a tethered or swapping memory card work flow but they had an alternate wireless option, the HiTi 510Si, instead and what a great solution it turned out to be!

The system piggy-backs PictBridge, allowing me to use the HiTi generic wireless transmitter with my Canon SLR's, take the typical three pictures, head, three quarter and full length, put the camera into play and send the images over PictBridge to the HiTi 510Si and then carry on shooting. The images soon start printing, ready for my team of assistants to sell, mount and bag them. Ka-ching!

We ran 2 systems in 2 different studio set-ups and were kept busy all night. This was a profitable evening for ThatPhotoPlace.co.uk and Cancer Research UK and I would certainly use the HiTi 510Si on future jobs; hiring them from System Insight of course!