During my recent Mentor Series Trek to Tucson with Dave Black and Lucas Gilman, I had an opportunity to take a close look at the new Nikon D800. Dave was shooting with the new D800 and from what I saw of the images taken with that camera, I decided to order one for myself.
I received an email today letting me know that my camera has been sent to my local camera dealer and that I will be receiving it soon. I can't wait to get my hands on it.
I'll be taking it with me to Dubai later this month on the Mentor Series Trek I'm leading. I am going to seriously have to work on my editing skills as these files are huge! DT
My Nikon Videos
I received news today that the videos I shot with Nikon late last year and now up on their site. I did 3 different videos for them, one dealing with a proper bounce technique, another about artificial sunlight and another about turning day into night. Here are the links to those videos.
I had a lot of fun shooting these videos, I hope you like them. I might also mention that I have an up coming Small Strobes, Big Results workshop here in Denver on August 18th. For more informaiton click HERE. DT
Nikon World Article Online
The recent article about me in Nikon World Magazine in now available online.
Dubai GPP 2012 Photo
I'm headed to the airport just now, but wanted to put up a photo from last weeks GPP workshops. I'm headed to Ghana for a 10 day assignment so I will be pretty much out of touch. Let me leave you with this, and I will explain how it was lit on my return. Sorry for the short post, got a run. DT
As it turns out, I have a 4 hour delay here in DC for my flight to Ghana. Thought I'd run through the process for making the photo above. The location was the Kempinski Hotel at the Mall of Emirates in Dubai. I was told that we were shooting in a $10,000.00 USD a night room. It was a 3 bedroom with a view of the Ski Resort in the mall. Yes, a ski resort in the shopping mall, only in Dubai.
The lighting outside the windows over the ski resort was a Mercury Vapor type lighting. By shifting my white balance on the camera to tungsten, the color of those lights went very blue. The ambient light in the room was a clean tungsten, however the light over the bed was dialed down by use of a rheostat. Dialing down that light made the color temp drop below a true tungsten level. I used a single SB-800 fitted with a Rouge Grid, the speedlight was also fitted with a full cut CTO to balance with the tungsten setting on the camera. DT
Nikon World Magazine
I was surprised to see that a photo I had shot for Nikon late last year made the cover of the Winter 2012 issue of Nikon World. I knew of course that I was being featured in the magazine but had no idea that one of my photos would grace the cover. I'm thrilled and honored. I blogged about this photo a while back. You can read that post HERE.
Late last year, I was asked by Nikon to create 3 different photos and that they wanted to video tape me shooting. The cover shot is one of the three I created for them, the other two can be seen in the complete article in the magazine. The video which was shot during the photography process has not been released just yet, perhaps in the next few weeks.
The photo on the left was another one of those shot for Nikon during my NY visit. The other is the beautiful model on the right in the spread below. I'll post more about these to photos later as time permits.
I look forward to the opportunity to do more work for Nikon! You can download the article HERE.
Egypt Slideshow
I've been teaching for Popular Photography Magazine's Mentor Series for quite sometime now. I have about 4 Treks each year to various locations throughout the world. In November of 2010 I had a Trek to Egypt, about 4 months before the "Arab Spring" uprising in Egypt.
Recently in the news we're seeing new demonstration in Cario and total chaos in the streets. I feel very fortunite to have visited Egypt, who knows when it will be safe to visit that country again. Egypt is a beautiful country and it saddens me to see what is taking place in that country.
I have put together a sideshow of images from my visit to Egypt. I'll be doing another overseas trip for the Mentor Series in April. I'll be leading a Trek with Michael Clark to the wonderful city of Dubai, in the UAE. That Trek will take place April 20-27, 2012. For more information on this trek and other, please visit the Mentor Series Website.
