Back to Back Covers
A group of us are in the midst of “Operation Fall Magic”, a mini, fall inspired catalog shoot out in in NY. I’ve been shooting the Sony A900 quite a bit [Pace has been shooting tons of vids on the D90], and I hope to write up my thoughts about it on the flight back [...]
D90 Audio and Steadicam on Vimeo
One of the first things I wanted to test with the D90 was the audio quality. I was initially concerned because there was no external in [for a mic], but I was pleasantly surprised on how it performed. In general I would say its on par with most of the consumer HD cameras on the market. Not [...]
New Toys: Sony A900 and Nikon D90
It doesn’t get much cooler then coming home from a shoot and seeing new toys sitting there waiting to be opened. That’s why I was SO STOKED when I came home today and saw the new Sony A900 and Nikon D90 here just in time to be experimented with before I leave again.
This A900, a [...]
Evolution Revolution
Preface:[The following is just a collection of thoughts, based off experiences of course, of how much the action sport (ski, board, climb, skate, run etc) photography industry has evolved in the last 5-10 years. While this scope is narrow, I think its fair to assume that the same ideas apply elsewhere in the general photo [...]
What is Endurance?
I’ve been shooting a ton of running the past year. Some of which has been for The North Face, who is really pushing their endurance line of shoes and clothing. They’ve even got their own Endurance Race series which is pretty rad. Check out the video/stills we shot promoting these races.
Shibbadang
I’m never a fan of diary blog posts (you know… “On Saturday I went to yadda yadda yadda”), not that I don’t love to keep up with what my peeps are doing, but that’s what Facebook is for. So with that in mind… where the hell have I been, I mean its been a month [...]
Out of the Office
I’m outta here. I’m leaving on a two week vacation with my pops to try and climb this thing. Wish us luck! tk
See Sam Run
Two years ago Sam Thompson ran Fifty Marathons in Fifty States in Fifty days! This year he is running the 480 mile long Colorado trail in under a week. Thats close to 70 miles a day! We are headed out from the land of the internet to follow Sam (in a car of course!) for [...]
Nor’easter DVD [$1]
Over the past weeks we’ve released clips from the promo piece that I shot [and DaBanks crushed on the editing end] for the Nor’easter. These clips will be playing in the EMS stores (all 80+ of them), the Nor’easter website, viral placements, and now here. This is 12 minutes of goodness, with some high level [...]
Jump Again
Some of you might have seen some photos floating around that I’ve leaked out from a shoot we did in the Czech Republic in April. It was a crazy adventure to the Northeastern part of the country to a climbing area rich in climbing history and ethic — Adrspach. Also along on the trip was [...]
Jump
The only stock agency I’ve ever really worked with is Aurora Photos, based out of Portland, Maine. I’ve never been much of a stock guy honestly, I’d rather be creating unique brand based campaigns with a client. But that doesn’t mean that stock isn’t still a huge part of the photo world, and a decent [...]
Vincent Laforet
Vincent Laforet is a young (early 30s) NYC photographer whose work I seem to see everywhere these days. He started out as a NY Times guy and after leaving a couple years ago has done some really inspirational and creative work for editorial and commercial clients around the world. He inspires me.
Recently Vincent posted up [...]
Grand Opening
One of my clients Eastern Mountain Sports, EMS, had a grand opening of a new store in Conway, NH this past week. Not only is the building brand spankin’ new (and filled with all sorts of Earth friendly technology), but the interior design and layout just looks killer (of course I’m biased because they have [...]
Holy Smokes!
Geeze Louise! Its been over a week and no update!! I wish I could say that I was somewhere extreme in the world, someplace where they haven’t heard about the interweb yet (have you heard about the interweb:))… but really I’m in Salt Lake City and behind the computer in Final Cut land. I have [...]
100 Days
As many of you know I was on a string of back to back to back shoots this Spring. We were running all over the place… Mallorca, Morocco, China and more. And as the title suggests all of the shoots took place in the hundred days from the beginning of February to the middle of [...]
Another Nor’easter Video
Here’s another video we shot for the Nor’easter outdoor festival coming to New England in September. This one features a live performance by State Radio and some badass, impressive climbing by Kevin Jorgeson. Edit by none other than Dbanks.
Nor’easter II
I did a week long shoot in April for the promoters of the Noreaster (an art/music/outdoor festival coming to the metro Boston area in September). The images and video are going to be used for viral marketing purposes the next few months. This short is of Kevin Jorgeson making the second rope-less ascent of ‘the [...]
Strive to Create Emotion Response
I spent my long weekend in Telluride at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival. It was good to relax and meet up with friends I hadn’t seen in quite a while. Everest photo pro Jimmy Chin was there, I shared dinner with Conrad Anker and his wife Jenni, David Brashears and a bunch of other mountain [...]
Blog is Live
As you can see, the new blog is live. Fresh pics and videos on the way. tk
Problog #1
I started out as a climbing photographer and its still one of my favorite things to shoot. Recently I signed on as a contributing photographer for Climbing and Urban Climber magazines and part of that gig is writing an industry related blog for their sites. Here is a bit from my first ‘Problog’:
The new year [...]
New Site is Up
This blog will be updated regularly with videos, pictures, and some of my perspective on the commercial and location photo world. Thanks & Happy Holidays! tk