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.

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.

Here is a slideshow of the images created from the Mt. Hood Workshop. Participants are still uploading photos so keep checking back as this will be continually updated.

Note: You can view this gallery on your mobile device to see the photos.

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.

Busy day in the studio today. I was shooting a belly dancer clothing catalog and had about 8-10 models in the studio. I know, rough. I have worked with Ziggy here a bunch of times, she’s a blast. Today she was wearing all bronze/copper/burnt orange stuff and I thought it looked really cool on her, so I made a portrait of her at the end of the day. Click the jump to see the setup.

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