Photo Shoots

Just returned from Lander, Wyoming photographing rock climbers in Sinks Canyon.  NOLS is based there, and I lived there and worked for NOLS for years.  I was fixated on climbing in Sinks, there are amazing routes and the canyon is warm enough to climb all year.  I hadn’t been back in a long time, great Read More

I was just starting to wind down the other day when my friend Patrick called with a photo idea.  Patrick is a incredible kayaker, and lucky for me he knows what works in photographing kayakers…and he comes up with some wild shooting ideas. Patrick wondered how it would look paddling at dusk or even in Read More

Busy shooting for a number of projects right now.  Also experimenting with Elinchrom Quadra High Speed Sync, stay tuned, should have the results shortly. Needed to do a portrait of a mountain biker the other day.  We needed an edgy  commercial look, so we went with three lights to start. We had a bright blue Read More

Colorado has had an amazing run off this year, the snow just keeps melting, and the rivers keep flowing.  The Poudre River near my house has been at flood stage for weeks, and is finally starting to recede.  This meant there were photo ops that were unique with the big whitewater. The narrows of the Read More

Had a great shoot today with Sir Greg, a local athlete who is very talented in a number of sports.  Wanted to work on some really edgy portraits, raking side lighting and some ring flash fill.  We used three Elinchrom Rangers for this image.  Two Rotalux strip lights are left and right of the model Read More

Some years you get all the luck.  I have spent my last 26 summers in Alaska, and some years Denali and the Alaska Range barely peak out. Other years you see it day after day.  I just returned from 3 weeks of shooting in Alaska, and had some great windows of clear weather for incredible Read More

Or maybe I should say planes, helicopters, jet boats, atvs and dog sleds.  In the middle of assignment work in Alaska this summer, always love going back to where we used to live and work with great clients.  These shoots get really crazy.  The sun sets after midnight in June, and the night never really Read More

There is a saying I like use when teaching lighting classes, ‘let the light breath.’  This refers to figuring out what is the best lighting ratio between outside ambient light and your strobe on the subject.  There is  no right answer.  When shooting assignments the client often tells you what style of lighting and mood Read More

I have been working on some video projects for an upcoming article and really enjoyed exploring the capabilities of DSLR video. I worked with Chris the other day in an urban part of town. We have done a lot of shoots together and practically know what the other person is thinking when it comes to Read More

Had a fantastic shoot come together the other day.  I have a neighbor who has a classic Lincoln Continental and he offered it as a prop for a photograph.  Of course this brought to mind lots of different ideas, something like a vintage 50s drive-in.  Then I met Rachael, a model in town, whose green Read More