Posts Tagged: behind the scenes

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Jan 11

Factory Studios Grand Opening

Thursday, January 13 · 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Location 1255 Gregory Lane

Teton Artlab presents Factory Studios, a candy factory converted into multi-use studios for creativity. Several artists and creative organizations will call this space home, including Teton Artlab, Strapped Glass, Treefight, the Deadlocks, Caldera Collective, Abbie Miller, Meg Daly, and more to be announced.

Over 6,500 square feet of space will include a contemporary gallery, glassblowing studio, printmaking presses, and digital media lab. In addition there are 8 private studios ranging from 112 to 1,000 square feet.

Our grand opening will feature large scale art by Abbie Miller and Ben Roth, as well as an in studio performance by the Deadlocks.

Parking is ample around the building, especially on Martin Lane around Bison Lumber. See you there!

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Jan 11

Urban Exploration

Here’s a great video of urban explorer Steve Duncan poking around in the unseen wilderness above and below New York City. I heard an awesome NPR story about these guys about a week ago, and this video by Andrew Wonder came my way today (thanks, KP). It’s 26 minutes long and well worth watching.

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Jan 11

2011 TED Prize: JR

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Jul 10

The National Parks: America’s Best Idea

The series has been out for a while now, but I’m off to the Grand Canyon this week for more Canon Photography in the Parks Workshops, so it seemed fitting to post this The National Parks: America’s Best Idea preview from YouTube.  In usual Ken Burns style, the complete series is an epic, multi-episode work chronicling the genesis of the parks right from their Abraham Lincoln origins (what didn’t that guy do?), filled with mesmerizing cinematography and tons of personalities, historic photographs, and modern takes on why the parks will always be so important.  This vid is still 26 minutes long, hardly a quick preview, but full of incredible quotes from people involved with the project.  Shelton Johnson’s opening story about delivering the mail in the raw, wild landscape of Yellowstone is particularly stunning and will probably always give me the shivers…

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19
Jun 10

Let There Be Light

Here’s a nice comparison showing how different kinds of light can affect a photograph.

I was shooting two winters back with a whole bunch of lights in the Jackson back/sidecountry with snowboarder Don Watkins and skier Andrew Whiteford, and Andrew happened to catch a shot of Don coming off a cliff at nearly the exact same moment that I pressed my shutter.  Andrew’s shot captured the scene with the ambient, available light, and my camera captured the scene with the help of three off-camera flashes.  Here are the results:

That’s me in the foreground of the first shot, camera in hand.  It was still pretty bright out at that point, but I was hoping to knock down the ambient light and make it the scene look much darker than it actually was.  Photography is about light, but it’s more about relative amounts of light.  My strobes are a bit brighter than the ambient daylight, so with the right camera settings, they can make it look dark out.  Makes sense, right?  It took me quite a while to wrap my head around proper flash exposure and how it differs from ambient light photography…

Just a few tech notes – you can’t see any of the lights in the first shot, but the main light is on the right, an Elinchrom Ranger probably at full power.  There’s another Ranger up the hill to the left, probably 3/4ish power, and there’s a Sunpak 622 up behind the cliff as a rim light, not sure if that was half or full power.  All triggered, of course, by Pocket Wizards.  Manual exposure, 1/200 sec, f/13, ISO 100 on a Nikon D300.

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Jun 10

Teton Pass

I spent some time on Teton Pass last weekend with Jackson athlete Andrew Whiteford, shooting some biking in the rain and snow on Parallel.  It was pretty muddy and I was trying to shoot without setting up a bunch of lights, so results were kinda mixed.  I’ve been on a kick lately to experiment with different Photoshop processes and I’m a HUGE fan of the vivid, vibrant color the 5D MkII cranks out, but I’ve also trying and to shoot and process for a more muted, subtle output like you’d get if you were shooting with a portrait film like Portra 160NC.  I really dig the look when the shots are on black, but not so much here on the white background of the blog.  The creamy, blown out skies really look too yellow for my taste.  I also went back and re-processed a shot from the JHMR bike park last summer – especially dig that last one…

Also, here’s a great video from the Fox website, showing a little behind-the-scenes of a shoot for their 2011 36 160mm fork.  You can download wallpapers on the website too.

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Apr 10

Phantom HD – Slow Motion 5D Shutter

Here’s a sweet video from James Pearman of a Canon 5D shutter firing in super slow motion, captured at 2000 fps by a Phantom HD.  It would be really cool to see this sort of thing with a 1D mkIV in continuous shooting mode at 10 fps.:

Jackson-based Brain Farm Digital Cinema is also using a Phantom HD Gold to create some absolutely stunning footage:

Brain Farm is currently working on a multi-year project with Travis Rice that, much like That’s It, That’s All, is sure to melt faces…  I can’t wait.

Click on the Phantom HD Gold below for Vision Research, Inc.’s Facebook Page:

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