Archive for the 'Workshops' Category

Remix

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Last night I taught a small lighting class for a group of 6 photographers wanting to learn a little bit more about using off camera flash outdoors. Lucky for me, I share a building with an awesome dance studio and a few of the teachers have a dance group called Remix. They perform all over town and needed some new photos so they got all dressed up and modeled for us. I shot this at the end of the class in the road in front of the studio. Milwaukie traffic will never be the same!

Pro Photographer Spotlight

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Mike Harris has a feature on his blog called “Pro Photographer Spotlight“. He came to the studio and interviewed me yesterday, go check it out!

Praying – for a good photo

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

I shot this photo in a church down in Eugene a couple of weeks ago. I think it turned out pretty good. It was not without some challenges though…

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MHCC – Lighting

Friday, April 30th, 2010

I was asked by the Photography program at Mt. Hood Community College to come and speak about light. Of course i was more than happy to. My assistant Liz graduated from this program and they have consistently cranked out some really good photographers. It’s an honor to even be asked!

They have a great studio full of the best equipment around. Including a couple of really cool Elinchrome Ranger packs and heads. So, we brought out a couple of models and I talked about how to create compelling portraits and we played around a bit. It was a lot of fun. Here are a couple of images I came up with. The original plan was to go by a lake on campus, but it started raining at the last second so we to plan “b”. Meaning, we ran for cover and just shot in a random location. Each of these images were shot with 2 heads. The main light is a beauty dish and the rim is a 20 degree grid. After this little seminar I headed over to the Rose Garden to shoot game 6 of the playoffs. The home team lost. This shoot was much more fun. There is a photo of mine from the game story on ESPN.com if you want to check it out.

Mt. Hood Highlight Video

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

So in case you haven’t had enough of the Timberline event, here is a little highlight video from the day. Here is the mobile version.