Photo District News just listed the 13 top photo workshop instructors in the country , and I’m very excited to be included on the list. Thanks to all my past workshop participants who voted for me. The rewards of teaching and working with students is something I really enjoy, and I look forward to seeing Read More
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Mnt Biker Portrait
Busy shooting for a number of projects right now. Also experimenting with Elinchrom Quadra High Speed Sync, stay tuned, should have the results shortly. Needed to do a portrait of a mountain biker the other day. We needed an edgy commercial look, so we went with three lights to start. We had a bright blue Read More
Flood stage
Colorado has had an amazing run off this year, the snow just keeps melting, and the rivers keep flowing. The Poudre River near my house has been at flood stage for weeks, and is finally starting to recede. This meant there were photo ops that were unique with the big whitewater. The narrows of the Read More
Nikon Advertorial
Back from Alaska, now working on two editorial assignments, summer is a busy time. Had a great shoot with the folks in Alaska, tons of logistics go into making this shoot work, thanks to all who helped out. Once again we got lucky with the weather and had some sunny skies and 1am sunsets. Really enjoyed Read More
Alaska Factor
In Alaska right now on an assignment. Had the chance to see friends with my family beforehand. We used to live in Alaska, and still love many aspects of life up north. One thing we talk about is the Alaska factor. The Alaska factor refers to how everything seems bigger and almost surreal up here. Read More
Underwater fill flash
We are lucky to live right near a scenic river and big reservoir in Colorado. Our front yard in the summer looks like a yard sale of boating gear. One day whitewater kayaks, the next day sea kayaks, and the next day canoes. Since my wife likes to sea kayak as much as she can Read More
Underwater High Speed Sync
Some folks have emailed wondering how I got some earlier images that seem taken underwater yet still triggering flash above water. I have been using some fantastic gear by AquaTech to get these unique perspectives. Here is a recent shot from floating in a snowmelt river using an AquaTech D300s housing and an SB900 housing. Read More
New York Times interview
I have continued to experiment with high speed sync, with a few new points. I continue to have success shooting at any shutter speed I want with my D300s, it nevers misses a shot or clips the flash. This image of the skateboarder was shot midday using 1/8000 as the shutter speeed with the Ranger Read More
High Speed Ranger Sync Round 3
So far I have only looked at using the fast flash sync speeds using the Pocket Wizard Flex System for freezing the action. What else can you do with that lightning fast shutter speed? How about using wide open apertures to create selective focus in an image? I was shooting fly fishing the other day Read More
More Ranger/Hypersync news
I have continued to work with the Pocket Wizard Flex Mini TT1 and ST4 with my Elinchrom Ranger (see last post). Here’s the good news. After more experimentation, I can sync my D3 at 1/1000 at full power. And even at 1/1250 I get minimal flash fall off and clipping. 1/1250 will freeze most subjects Read More