35 posts tagged “nikon”
I am not a very big baseball fan. But when I get the email announcing media day.... Yeah...
Media day for the baseball team was not the media circus that I was
expecting. I was the only photographer there. Even still I did not want
to take long. This was my fav out of 4 frames.
Strobist info:
Main light was 2 sb-800s in a umbrella, another sb-800 for a side light, for some texture and mood.
This was my very first attempt at a remote camera from start to finish. The overhead remotes are much easier, put camera down, and focus. For this one I had to clamp to the tower two magic arms. make sure everything was safe and secure. Then i decided to shoot with my 35mm F2, which gave me the field of view I wanted. but such a small DOF. I had not strobes so I could not stop down. I shot the whole game at F2.2.... I liked a few of the pictures. Here is one for your viewing pleasure.
I had the oppertunity to stay at this very nice place in Mexico, loved it. One of the nights there, I staked out this spot and waited for the right light. I thought I did ok... I like hotels that light there own exterior, makes it easier... anyway if you ever get the chance to stay here I would jump on it, and make sure to visit the pool bar.
I am not an abstract photographer. I admire those people that can see art in buildings, but only to an extent, you getting to artsy on me and start writting artist statments and you will have lost my interest. Still, I was reshooting a series with a friend and was able to get a little art myself... C&C welcome
Let me start by saying that I am not a snowboarder. I used the board because at the time, that was all we had with us. I got the idea in my head to clamp the camera to the end of the board and slide down a small hill. I did a few trial runs without the camera everything was working. so I mounted the 10.5 on the camera, locked in, and slid off.... now for some strange reason, snowboards are smooth. (I have no idea why :) ).... but the clamp and the camera started to slide, and it turned my camera into a snow plow.. I was not very happy about that. I would have liked a little more motion blur, but I was happy none the less... Next time I will do it right and use some skis....
I had heard these guys before, but never really had a good chance to photograph them till they were playing at All City Live at the GSR... the band was great, I wish more people would have come out to see them... But the small crowd made it easy to move around...
Strobist Info: My favorite combo for club shooting, on camera strobe on TTL for fill. always ajusting the compinsation, and attached to that is a PW setting off another strobe stage lefft up on the Dj booth... looking at the shots I picked most all were taken with no on camera fill
The other day, at the club I shoot for, Nick Canon was paid to be there showed up.... I shot a few pics while he was on the turn tables... nothing to crazy cool, he was bouncing all over the place, and the DJ booth was dark and extremely hard to focus in... but anyway good time, the place was packed....
After shooting basketball with strobes..... I never want to go back... however the budget and powers that be prevent constant use...So I have been shooting most of the games with my good old 50mm 1.4... tomorrow I am going to try out the 85mm 1.8, (focus was to slow last time)... Until I get my own arena, and have my own strobes. (not happening) or I get the 200mm F2.( Please Santa ).. I will deal with what I have., until the D3 shows up..
It is a shame that he had to push the ball down so fast, it is right out of the frame...... either way it made the cover of the sports section..
I got the oppertunity to photography Flogging Molly while they were in town. Wouldn't you know it they were playing at my favorite location, The New Oasis. After almost being denide entry even though I was on the press list, i finaly did get inside. The lighting was the same as I remembered... (Crap) however this time I could not use flash.
The best part of concert photography..... the seats.... I was allowed to roam the little gap between the stage and the crowd... I thought it was going to be fun and hassle free. Then the sercrity personal informed me to watch out for crowd serfers that they would be draging down into my little area.... I spent the next hour or so dodgeing flying bodys and running back and forth. All while trying to get some images from the worst lighting in town....
Also a few from Muder by Death.
Someones ability to be unique depends on their ability to get a shot even while faced with unforeseen problems.
for example,
I keep running into limitations of the Pocket Wizards. this time it was range... it was line of sight, and no water in the way.. by my guess it was 400-600 yards. my best guess what the battery's were low.
The cause for the camera being so far away was the TNT and det-core that were present. (As well as the gasoline for the fireball, thank you bomb squad )The objective was to photograph several televisions exploding. More for fun more than anything. .
The solution was 2 fold. shoot the whole thing super tele. and set the remote cameras internal intervolometer. I had to fight with the menus for a long time, and I have a much better understanding of them now.
