Sunday, October 10, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Using up the roll
My 2 120 cameras had film left over from last year so i shot a couple pictures around the house so i could go develop them. I ended liking these 2 images.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Red Bull Rampage
Launched in 2001 and held annually through 2004, Red Bull Rampage brought the creative, unrestricted ethos of freeride mountain biking to the contest arena while staying true to the sport's core ideals. Poised on a sandstone ridge in the brutal landscape near Virgin, Utah riders were free to chose whatever line they dared between an established start gate and the finish line 1,500 vertical feet below. Exactly what happened between those two points has become legendary.
1.Dirt: If your worried about your camera and everything you own being covered in dirt,don’t show up.
2. Credentials: Unlimited access is key to composing images. Contact your local magazine or know someone who knows someone. Free lunch is provided with the press pass.
3. See Tip 1.
4. Business Cards: Everyone from publishers to team managers are on hand and the event. Exposure is everything.
5. Clothing: With highs of 103 degrees is obvious to wear shorts and a t shirt. Yet wearing the same outfit for the entire 4 days of photographing makes you more recognizable to riders and other photographers that you meet during the event.
6.Pre-Visualize: There are thousands of ways to photograph the numerous lines and features. Pick your areas and produce quality not quantity.
7. Equipment: Two cameras are key. The remote camera is locked onto the tripod with the wide angle lens and can be triggered by pocket wizards. The main body varied from the 100-400 and the 24-105.
8. Luck: Somehow randomly meet a writer for the biggest European bike magazine and have him be stoked to run your images.
9. Sell aka Luck #2: Submit images to the magazines and get paid for the time. It’s important to review the submission guidelines prior to submission.
10. Individuality: Don’t be concerned about what the other photographers are doing. It’s impossible for someone to duplicate your style.
-ryan
Oh Yeah
And for those of you who want to be authors on the blog, please email me with the email address with which you want me to invite you.
House Cleaning
Dear Blog Members-with Blogger we are limited to 100 authors. As a result I will only be keeping authors who are active posters. All others will be removed to make space for new members.
Visual Snack
This is an image from lighting awhile back. Thought it was something that needed to be shared.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
DM22 "Driver Test" Requirements
Students-
If you want to use the Mamiya DM22, you need to show a faculty member that you can:
- Properly insert a CF Card
- Switch the camera on
- Switch the digital back on
- Set the digital back to correct camera setting
- Set the digital back to 200 ISO
- Make a correct exposure with a gray card in the image
- Gray balance camera
- Switch the camera off
- Switch the digital back off
- Remove the digital back from the camera correctly
- Replace the digital back on the camera
As a reminder, the camera will only be available to be checked out for use in the studio at this time.
Broad and Short Lighting
This website shows the differences between broad and short lighting:
http://photoartsforum.com/broad_vs_short_light-t715.0.html
http://photoartsforum.com/broad_vs_short_light-t715.0.html
More Ghosts for lighting
Not quite done being edited...still need to get rid of that red glow underneath the car but whatevs.
New Goods Recently Arrived in Photo Checkout
Students -
Photo checkout now has available several new items which may be of use to you. Those of you who have been frequently checking out light meters may already be aware that we've acquired another pair of Sekonic L758s (PDF of the manual is available here), but we've also picked up a couple more basic lightmeters: a pair of Gossen Digiflash meters. These are very small and simple meters, and as such I suspect that some of you will love them dearly for their portability and simplicity, and others among you will regard them with a frothing hatred for their lack of advanced features and basic interface. I would advise having a look at them before you have need for a light meter to determine if it's the sort of meter you'd like or not. The instruction manual is available here (PDF), and of course you can stop by photo checkout to give one a test drive.
On the color management side of things, there's a new Spyder3 Elite available for (in-building) checkout to address your laptop display calibration needs, and a trio of X-Rite Colorchecker Passports.
Checkout also has a couple new Vivitar 285HVs. These are non-dedicated flashes that can be used on just about any camera with a flash shoe or PC socket... except for that goofy Sony/Minolta "inside out" flash shoe design. These are essentially manual flashes, and though they have some Auto features, they won't give you any sort of TTL functionality, so you might want to study up on the manual, which is available in checkout. I couldn't find a Vivitar-provided online manual for the 285HV, but there is a manual for a prior version (though same model number) located here (PDF).
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Holly Andres, guest speaker SFP
All photo students should plan on attending the artist talk by Holly Andres on Friday October 8th, Linfield Hall room 125, from 10:00am-11:30am. Everyone is welcome, bring your friends!
Untitled Persons
Monday, October 4, 2010
Lith
This was my first attempt at lith printing, which I am a fan of because I didn't totally suck at it right away. 4x5 doesn't seem to be very advantageous for the process though, I seemed to get more grain and yellowing when I was printing from 6x6 (although I don't know if the yellowing had anything to do with the film size).
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
woohoo!
Hey all. This is the project I'm currently working on in DC, yay! Check out the article, I'm mentioned in there somewhere at the end :)
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