Archive for October 2008
The Garden
I was reading a photography magazine the other day and came across one of those “your garden is a world in it self” articles. I have often come across these articles and most of the time I have skipped them. This time I read it and decided to explore this idea. I decided to spend a day shooting my garden. Equipped with my 5D, variety of lenses, remote setup and Alien Bee´s, I tried different setups and motif´s.
Flowers were easy, trees leafs and assorted still things were photographed with mixed results. Birds feeding and nearly getting heart attacks when the strobes lit up their world. No animals were were hurt during the process but I must say that there is no longer any action by the bird feeder, no feeding frenzy, the birds are gone.
Well I have them on my memory card and hopefully some will show up again after getting over their shock
All in all it was a fun day and in the end I got a shot I was pleased with.
Remote shooting
Some assignments let you experiment more than others, which is really rewarding and helps to advance your experience.
A recent one that III had was a shoot for Harbour Air. Not only were we shooting airplanes from a helicopter, which is always fun, but we got to attach a camera to the wing of one of the DeHavilland DHC-3 Turbine Single Otters.
Thats not something that is done easily or on a whim. The guys at Harbour air were excited about this so we got a lot of support from them. The paperwork and the safety precautions were all handled by them perfectly. We handled the technical part of it and of course the shooting – the fun parts.
Setting up the remote camera
We used a Manfrotto ball-head to attach a Canon 1D Mark II, to the underside of the wing on the Otter. We used a Canon 17-40 with a polarizer and a pocket wizard with a remote cord. This was then packed in gaffer tape. Both to secure all the cables and to give some protection against wind and waves that are an essential part of a Seaplane take off and landing. The gaffer tape was also used to lock the focus on the lens.
The camera was on shutter priority so that we could have the shutter high enough all the time to negotiate the vibrations coming from the Otter. We set the ISO to 800 to have some lee-way for the aperture, I find that higher ISO properly exposed is by far better than low ISO under exposed.
As we followed the Otter we fired the remote and hoped for the best, the hard part about this all, is the fact that its a trial and error process. We could not see the motif or the background as we were shooting so a lot of guesswork was in order as well as shooting as much as possible.
International Independent Imaging
It´s been 9 months since me and 2 friends started our company International Independent Imaging. It has been a crazy time, with exciting things happening and a lot of experience gathered.
We are very pleased with how things are going and look forward to a phenomenal 2009.
During this time we have had very little time for manufacturing promotional materials and our website has been a victim of that lack of time.
No more, as iii-imaging.com has not had a face-lift more of a face transplant. New design, new photos and new content grace our pages as never before so head on over and check it out.
Shoot for Air
Just a short behind the scenes video from a shoot we did for Harbour Air. Check it out…..
