I'm pleased to announce my 5th European tour for Small Strobes, Big Results. I'll be teaching in Austria and Switzerland. I'll be in Puchberg/Wels, Austria on Oct. 5th & 6th, Innsbruck, Austria on the 8th & 9th, Dornbirn, Austria on 10th - 12th, Zurich, Switzerland on the 13th & 14th, and Graz, Austria 17th. For more information and registration, contact my friend and business partner Eric Krugl at office@kruegl.at
I hope we have the same plane as last year!
I was recently in Pittsburgh to shoot helicopter aerials of a pipeline in Western PA. I had some personal time to shoot the skyline of Pittsburgh while there. What a beautiful city it is. D800, ISO 100, 8sec. @ f/8.0.
This is a photo I took while teaching an industrial photography workshop at the GPP in Dubai, UAE.
I recently purchased a used Nikon V2 with two lenses on eBay for a great price. The V2 has a small sensor with a crop factor of X2.7, which really increases the length of my longer lenses. The image quality looks good in the lower ISO range, actually I'm impressed.
I used my Nikon V2 yesterday on assignment shooting for an Oil & Gas company. The photo above was shot using my manual focus 300mm f/2.8 with a X2 converter. With a crop factor of 2.7, the focal length equals a 1620mm lens. Here is another image shot at sunset the night before.
My new Nikon V2 has earned a spot in my camera bag. Here is another image with just the 300mm on the V2, effective length of lens is 810mm. This was shot from the ground looking up to the deck of the drilling platform.
I was a quest speaker and workshop presenter at this years, UPAA (University Photographers Association of America) symposium. The UPAA met this year at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. This was my 4th time speaking to this fine group of photographers.
I conducted three 1 1/2 hour mini workshops this year. One of the lighting techniques I demonstrated was a proper bounce. University photographers are not typically given a lot of time to create images and setting up a softbox or some other modifier take up valuable time.
This photo below was lit using a bounce technique, I actually placed the flash (Nikon SB-800) behind my subject camera left. With a set of barndoors on the flash, I aimed it over the shoulder of my subject to the wall cameral right. I aimed the flash as to allow a bit of it to strike my subject which provided a nice rim light. There is also a flash at the end of the hall with a orange gel on it striking the wall. This flash was also a Nikon SB-800, placed on Channel 1 Group B, the main light was set to Group A.
Just as a quick note: I'll be teaching a lighting workshop with my friend Dave Black in Charleston, SC in September for the Mentor Series.
Back in March, I was teaching at The Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. This is one of the demonstration photos I made during the week. I hired this bee keeper to come by the workshop for a short portrait session. After shooting in the studio, we went outside to make the portrait you see above.
I used a FourSquare softbox with two SB-800 flashes inside.
Below is the studio photo as well as the set up.
