User Profile: Kyle Rivas, impressing 2,700 people at graduation

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It’s Graduation time! For this special user profile, we’re featuring Kyle Rivas, campus photographer. Check out his cool story about how he impressed thousands of students and parents below.

Name: Kyle Rivas Occupation: Campus Photographer and Photo Archivist (William Jewell College), Rivas Media Photography Location: Liberty, MO. Twitter: @KCrivasphotog Website: WilliamJewellPhoto.com and RivasMediaPhotography.com Which Eye-Fi card do you own? I own three Eye-Fi 2gb Share Cards Which feature do you think is most useful? The ability to transmit photos within the wide range of a wi-fi device and download them to a specific folder is most useful for me.

What’s your Eye-Fi story?
As a professional photographer I am always looking for ways to impress people instantly with my photography and at the same time I am looking to decrease the amount of time I have to spend at the computer. With the Eye-Fi card, I was able to do both for about one tenth the cost of having to buy an expensive wireless transmitter built for my Canon Mark III.

How I impressed 2,700 people at the graduation:
I set up a 12×8 foot wide rear projection screen at our college graduation and as the ceremony took place I was able to walk around our six basketball court gym and transmit pictures to my computer, which were then cued up on the screen (set up as a live slide show), in under a minute. This allowed us to project live pictures to about 2,700 people. Families and friends loved being able to see there son or daughter on the big screen moments after they came across the stage or being goofy while sitting in there chairs but I think the graduates had the most fun with it.

How I did it:
With the Eye-Fi card I can designate a folder where I want the photos saved. I use the Auto Import feature on Adobes Lightroom program: the computer automatically gets photos renamed, captioned, adds metadata and moves it all to the proper folder, all before I get back to the computer. I set up a slideshow from that end folder, designated the screen as the destination for the slideshow, and voila!
Thank you Eye-Fi for such a reliable product!

What’s the latest photo/video you Eye-Fi’d?

I used our wireless network on the campus to transmit the pictures from the camera which was outside, back to the computer inside so I could see what I was capturing.

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