Lighting at 7000 feet – AWESOME.
Yesterday I held the “Lighting at 7000 feet” workshop high on Mt. Hood at the Silcox Hut. It was a ton of fun. The weather was sunny, then snowing, then foggy, then white out blizzard, then sunny again as the sun set and we were above the clouds. So amazing. Everyone made some great photos, I will get to posting those a bit later. I think everybody walked away having learned a thing or two about light and hopefully had a great time in one of the most amazing locations in the world. Above is my favorite photo from the day, shot during one of the foggy/snowy periods of the day with a 5D Mark II and a beauty dish on a 24mm lens.
I learned as much as anybody else yesterday. The guys from Radio Popper came out to the workshop as well and provided tech support and equipment for people to use. I gotta say, I am so incredibly impressed with Radio Poppers. I have never in my life used one before yesterday. They work really well and allow me to do things my pocketwizards cannot, like high speed sync and controlling power outputs (even in manual mode) from the back of the camera. Amazing. I ended up using them for almost every photo I shot. I can’t wait to go do some more shoots with them, they are going to make a huge impact on my work.
The photo above is from the end of the night, after the sun went down, everyone shooting one of our skier models, Jason Kish. I am firing two speedlights with the Radio Poppers. I have uploaded a gallery of a couple of my favorite images and a TON of behind the scenes images shot by my buddy Freddy Joe in a gallery on my facebook page and there is one on Boyd’s too.
I’ve got to thank Pro Photo Supply and Canon for bringing a ton of gear up for people to use. We had profoto 7b packs and tons of 5D Mark II’s and speedlights and I even got to shoot a Mark IV. Tom Boyd also shot about 100GB of video from this event and we will be editing something together very soon. So if you missed it, check out this little highlight video.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 8:53 am
Wow, looks like tons of fun. I look forward to seeing more pictures.
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