1/125 sec / f11 / ISO 100 / 170mm / Nikon D3 / Nikon 70-200 2.8 VR
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The Bonneville Salt Flats is a place I’ve been to a few times, however never while any racing was going on. It was quite the scene, very different from any auto race I’ve been to in the past, no frills, just insanely fast cars, as many RV’s as you’d see at Burning Man, vintage cars, vintage people, and…rednecks, lots and lots of rednecks.
Continue reading ‘Speed Week – Bonneville Salt Flats’
Another first for me, I’ve never shot photos of or seen a road bike time trials before. I also have never seen this out on a road course for auto racing. Yesterday was a really cool experience, I got to walk around the race track at Miller Motorsports Park. It’s usually something you don’t get to do, the track is usually buzzing with race cars and motorcycles going 100+ miles an hour, the track is usually on lockdown. As the most of the track was shut down for the general public due to the use of the perimeter road I decided to go out to help my friend Re Wikstrom run strobes while she was covering the event. Since she didn’t really need them till the end of the race when the light got low, I got to shoot quite a bit. It’s quite the different scene at the Tour of Utah Time Trial with such different gear, the crazy helmets, wheels, etc. It’s very different visually and I’m glad I went.
Continue reading ‘Tour of Utah – Stage 3 – Miller Motorsports Park Time Trials’
Cycling isn’t exactly something I usually pay attention to, or shoot for that matter. However, this summer has been one of shooting photos of things, sports, events that are new to me, or at least that I don’t usually cover professionally. I headed up to the Mt. Nebo Summit today to shoot the second stage of the Tour of Utah cycling race. Today’s stage was a pretty brutal climb of over 4,500 feet from Thanksgiving Point to Mt. Nebo Summit. As I usually light 75% of my ski photos, I figure why not give it a go with this? The clouds in the background were pretty dark and gloomy looking so this pretty well setup perfect for how I usually shoot cloudy day ski shots.
Continue reading ‘Tour of Utah – Stage 2 – Thanksgiving Point to Mt. Nebo’
This photo, shot about 2 years ago in October of 2008 is one I simply forgot about until recently. It wasn’t until recently that I met a local automotive photographer, Orlando Echeverria and reminded me about composites and how I could make this shot work better than when I shot it. I had some issues with my flashes working on this shoot so the lighting wasn’t as even as I was hoping for. Today, I opened it up, and did some work in photoshop to bring it closer to what I had in mind originally. I’m pretty stoked to get out and shoot a bit more, things such as this. Look for more to come.
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The crew at Saga Outerwear wanted to test the waterproofing of the new Anomie suit for the 2010/2011 season for their new look book, so where else could we go in the summer except a car wash! Saga had me come out to shoot a few entertaining photos of the highly un-scientific waterproofing test. Tim Durtschi was in town, so he became the unlucky guinea pig. Austin of course could barely contain himself with excitement with the thought of flogging Tim with the high pressure power washer.
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A few weeks before this shot was taken, I was at the exact same spot, shooting on a larger version of this jump with Poor Boyz Productions at Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Oregon. We waited around for about a week for the weather to improve and it just never seemed to get the way we wanted so I bailed out for a few days down to Mammoth Mountain, CA to shoot with Level 1 Productions. A few days later I came back up to Mt. Bachelor to shoot with Rage Films for another park shoot and I got the weather I was hoping for and the shoot went off. It was one of those shoots where I got photos every day that ended up running in a mag somewhere. Needless to say it was a good couple of days with a really fun crew of young up and coming kids.
After shooting on this jump in the morning we took a big break and came back just around 6pm to get going on this again to shoot around sunset. Joe Schuster was one of the only ones that stuck it out about an hour after the last light was on the jump to wait and ski for the sunset photos. I shot this scene with a pretty standard kit of lighting for me on a jump with an Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed with an A-Head, Alien Bees 800, Alien Bees 1600 along with my DIY battery packs with Pocket Wizard Plus 2 transcivers and a Nikon D3 with a Tamron 28-75 f2.8 LD XR Di SP lens.
I just rolled into Mt. Hood, OR to shoot the Sammy Carlson Invitational. It’s been a few years since I was last here at Mt. Hood, the last time being when I took this photo of Tom Wallisch with Level 1 Productions while shooting for the movie “Turbo”. This shot was taken with a Nikon D70s, Nikon 18-200 f3.5-5.6, Pocket Wizard Plus 2 Transcievers, and Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed pack with an A-head at 1/1000 sec, f5.6, at 60mm.
For those of you wondering how I was able to sync my strobes at 1/1000 of a second, the Nikon D70s’s CCD sensor and electronic shutter allow for this to work at up to 1/1250 of a second using Pocket Wizard Plus, Plus 2, and Multimax transcievers without any adjustments in settings.
In an effort to keep myself posting more often I’ve started a category of posts on my blog called Quick Pics. I don’t always have time to make a blog post when I’m in the middle of travelling or a really busy cycle of work so I’ve added this section. Just a photo, maybe with a little bit about the photo if I have time. Judging by the traffic response so far, it seems like it’s what everyone wants to see. These photos are going to be completely random personal work, or maybe just a photo I’ve taken in the past that has been published, or maybe one that didn’t get published but I just liked it a lot.
This photo is of Anna Segal about two years ago during a trip we went on to Chile. This shot in particular was at a sunset session in the terrain park in El Colorado, Chile. There are amazing sunsets almost every day out there with all the pollution in the valley of Santiago. Shot at 1/125 sec, f5.6, ISO 100 on a Canon EOS-1D MKII, Canon 70-200 2.8 L IS lens with Alien Bees 800, Alien Bees 400, 3 Nikon SB-80DX speedlights, Pocket Wizard Plus 2 transcivers.
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