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2010 ANZ Netball – Media Photos…

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I had the pleasure 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 commitments 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.

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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.

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2009 Highland Fling – Elinchrom Ranger Quadra…

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

I shot the 2009 Highland Fling for Cycle-Photos.com on the weekend 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 powerful. 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 remember.

Here’s the video of the set-up and some other guff (Shot on 5D MKII)

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Overall a really great weekend with some good results.

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2009 ITU Triathlon World Champs…

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

From the 9th to the 13th of September I had the pleasure of working with Duane Hart and the rest of the SportingImages team at the ITU Triathlon World Champs on the Gold Coast. It was a hot couple of days for a Sydney sider like me, but great fun.

My job was to run the remotes at the finish line. I had my main camera (1D MK3/70-200) which triggered 2 remote cameras. The idea is to have 3 of the same shot from different angles.

Everything ran pretty well. There were some hitches with camera location, batteries etc, but generally I was really happy with how it all worked.

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I’m going up to Noosa this weekend to do much the same thing, but this time I have arranged mains power for the cameras. this time there’s not worry about batteries.

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UCI World MTB Championships….

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….

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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.

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Manly Dam Remote Flash and Video Tests

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Today’s goals were to test some mountain bike set-ups and remote flash set-ups. I am hoping to put in a good display at the MTB world champs in September with both stills and video snippets.

VIDEO TESTS
The main test here was sound. I am using the JCV 3CCD HD camcorder because of its compact size, but the on board sound is none too crash hot. I’ve made a lead that goes from the 3.5mm stereo jack to 2 x XLR connectors. These are attached to RODE M3 9Volt Powered Microphones. I wanted external sound and to exaggerate the stereo affect by spacing the mics well apart.
The first example is with runners….

Then MTB’ers….the set-up is at the end of this one.

FLASH TESTS
I’ve still got quite a bit of work to do on this, but getting there. My main problem is the lighting and location. Full sun is not too good, full shade or heavily backlit are good, but you need to get a location of the course that has these conditions, and a descent spot.
The Dual flash is working well. Shot most of today at 1/1000 sec and f5.6. The PocketWizards work really well with the high speed sync. Hypersync is ok from 1/400 – 1/800, but over that it’s not all that good.