I was helping out a friend on a commercial shot for this shot.
Wow, what a cool place. It feels like you are in a different country when you go here. Maybe somewhere like Egypt! or another middle eastern Country. Turns out the film a lot of movies out here, sahara, Transformers...ect.
I took tons of shots all day of everything but only ONE shot at sunset with the ATV in it and it worked out perfectly. About 5 minutes later and the sun disappeared behind the mountains.
Shot with a Canon 5D at 160 ISO, 800 Shutter speed, and 7.1 aperture with a 16mm lens.
I know, I know. Its weird. But I do take photos of things that do not have a stick and ball in them.
This was an impromptu photo taken on a tram in Las Vegas at about 4 am when we were coming back from various casinos. The man in the back was pretty darn drunk but was able to hold his match long enough to get his face to glow. The guy in the front is my friend Dan.
Believe it or not, I did not use a strobe on this. It was purely all available light from the tram (hence the random colors) I had one but it killed the natural color so I decided to not use it.
The shot was taken at 1/30 of a second, aperture 2.8! and Iso 500 on my trusty Canon 30D (a great camera to carry around Las Vegas so you dont get your expensive ones stolen)
The reflection on the window of the guy was placed there in photoshop.
The other day I got to witness history at the Los Angeles coliseum a place they haven't played in 50 years. To top that off there was over 115,300 people there! It was insane. I left 5 hours early just to get into the place. Also, make sure you check out the left field fence. It was only 200 feet long. I felt like i could have hit it out.
In this shot, I went to the top of the stadium at the begining of the game and waited until the sky got a liittle darker but light enough so you can still see LA in the background.
Then pieced together 7 photos to make this panoramic shot.
I got to go on a road trip recently to the San Francisco bay area and shoot a basketball game and some portraits of Australian basketball players from Saint Mary's college in Moraga CA.
To top it off, the night before I shot a basketball game at UCLA which ended at 10 then I went straight to san fran after that and didn't get to my hotel in (scary scary) Oakland until 4am in the morning only to wake up at 9 to get ready for the portrait, FUN!
Seriously, I had a great time. I had the help of a pro and some fun guys to shoot.
Thanks for looking!
This is the one they picked for Sports Illustrated.
So a few weeks ago I shot NASCAR for the first time. I was reallly bored the first two days but the last day I had some fun. Turns out there is much more to this than cars going in a circle. Thanks to Mark for being a pal and showing me the ropes.
Here are some pictures from the last day.
Any questions, please feel free to ask.
I have been really busy lately with other "stuff" at work. One is our new blog at our site! I will be updated a bunch over there but also I will be posting here too.
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