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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
I had the pleaseure of working with the players from the 2010 ANZ Netball Championships last Friday. I had been contracted to take the media shots of each player during their other media committments on the day. The players are some of the nicest, and lets admit, tallest, ladies I have ever worked with. Great at following direction and happy to have a little fun when I lost my mind at the end of the day and asked them to stick their tongues out!!
The setup was nice and simple with 2 front lights and one rear 3/4 rim light. All shot on white seamless paper. The lights were the Elinchrom Ranger Quadras connected to the mains. They ran all day faultlessly. I shot tethered to my laptop so the players and I could see what was going on.
I shot a quick video on the 5D to show the room layout, and to see a couple of the more fun photos from the day.
Much thanks to Michael Bradley from MBPhotowho was a kind boss on the day, Looked after me, bought me sushi and coke and kept me in line.
Tags: 2010, advertising, ANZ Championship, backdrop, female, feminine, Homebush, human, human being, human beings, humans, media, Netball, novotel, people, person, portrait, sports, sports & recreation, strobe, team photos, team sports, white
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
I shot the 2009 Highland Fling for Cycle-Photos.com on the weeknd of the 7th – 8th of November. I really love these MTB evens; the people are nice and relaxed, you’re out in the bush, and you’ve got 2,000 acres of toilet with no queues.
I used the Elinchrom Ranger Quadrafor the first time on an MTB event and I’m really impressed with the results. They are not too heavy to carry around in the bush, but are really powerfull. I have invested in 2 x 18cm 50degree reflectors to make the most of the power. There’s no point spraying light everywhere, and there have a nice beam – At 6″ from the subject, there have a 6″ area…..easy to rememeber.
Here’s the video of the set-up and some other guff (Shot on 5D MKII)
Overall a really great weeknd with some good results.
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
I spent the first weekend of September at Mount Stromlo, Canberra, covering the UCI World Mountain Bike Championships. I drove down with Murray on the Thursday afternoon to get the Accreditations, then we shot Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Last year at the World Cup we are both sick with various ailments, but this time we were good to go. Some great results. As usual, I overcomplicated things, while Murray kept it simple and clean.
I used flash for most of the weekend using the PocketWizard ETTL flash system. My aim was to shoot backlit and to fill the subjects with flash. It worked ok, but even using 2 x 580EX flashes I lacked some punch against the sun. I was pushing it a little however, trying to shoot 1/1600th in high speed sync at f5.6. Generally I just pumped the flashes to full power and went from there.
Here’s the video of the weekend….it’s a bit big, so please be patient while it loads….
I did try something interesting and that was to use a fish eye with the flash on the hot-shoe (at full power), but the flash head was zoomed to 50mm. This gave a tight center of light in the frame and as long as I kept the rider in that spot as they flew past, It looked great. With the fisheye you can use f5 and due to the lenses great hyperfocalqualities, everything was sharp.
Click HEREto see our results.
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
I shot the 2009 Go Natural Multisport yesterday, and for it’s versitility, I used my 28-300. On a day where I had to move quite a bit and carry a variety of set-ups, the 28-300 really excelled.
Image Courtesy of Canon.com.au
I needed to be able to shoot cyclist, Kayakers, and Runners with the smallest set up possible. This lens, and a fish eye, are all I used all day. Some people have been quite harsh on this lens for not being as sharp as others (70-200), but for it’s range and size it does a really great job, and I can’t fault the results. Would I use it for a studio magazine cover…..not likely, but I’m not shooting for that. I’m outdoors lugging my
fat arse backpack up hills.
Even with a hot-shot or wireless flash the lens performed admirably. I’ll definitely use this lens again when shooting adventure races.
Tags: 28-300, adventure, australia, Canon, Flash, lens, Multisport, photography, photos, running, setup, Sport
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Tags: camera, Canon, ETTL, fill, Flash, Mountain, Mountain Bike, MTB, photography, photos, pocketwizard, Ratio, remote, setup, ST-E2, strobe, test, wizard
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