Scouting in Scotland
We’ve been scouting running locations along The West Highland Way in Scotland the past couple days (and trying to shake off some nagging jet lag). We’re here to shoot Jez Bragg, current trail record holder, and some others doing a winter/spring crossing of the 95 mile trail. Here are a couple from out scout days.
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New Video: People Profile with Emily Harrington
Here’s another new Mallorca video; this time we tried to keep the talking to a minimum and let the great audio track carry the piece.
New Video: People Profile with Cedar Wright
Well I had hoped to announce the soft launch of my new website today, but its just not in the cards [stay tuned for it later this week?]. What I can share is the first of several video profiles I have in the queue. This is a quick piece about Cedar Wright – a climber, [...]
Behind the Scenes: TNF Athlete Summit
I recently went out to SF for a long 10 days, to shoot a couple different projects for The North Face. One of those was full length ‘portraits’ of their snow sport athletes for the upcoming SIA show in Denver. One of my good friends (and TNF athlete) Renan Ozturk shot some behind the scenes [...]
Yosemite With Two Badasses
So here’s the deal. I’m packing for Yosemite right now, specifically for a big wall free climbing shoot with two of climbing’s most badass athletes: Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson. I could go on about their resumes but I think its safe to say that these guys are two of the best climbers on this [...]
Product Design: F-Stop Bags
A couple years ago a friend and colleague approached me about helping design a new line of camera bags. His goal was to produce bags that catered towards the needs of the outdoor, action, and youth photographers that had been coming onto the scene and needing more from their bags than what the current crop [...]
Jungle Marathon with Mike Wolfe
Mike Wolfe is just another all-around badass from Bozeman Montana. Something about that area breeds people that just crush in the mountains, no matter what the sport. Mike is a lawyer, climber, skier, and most notably a North Face Endurance Athlete; he’s also one of the three runners we had the great opportunity of working [...]
Picking Off the Leaches
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many for a video? Here’s the first from Brasil… sitting in the airport waiting for out flight to Sao Paulo.
Totally Off the Grid?
I’m currently in the Delta Sky Club in JFK, drinking to hopefully induce sleep for the rest (majority) of the 42 hour travel binge to the jungle of Northern Brasil. I’m traveling with local SLC Videog Hennie VJ and we’ll be shooting pics and vid of some… ‘endurance’ athletes. More to come, but most importantly [...]
Mallorca – What Not to Do
Well we set out to shoot a little how to video this past weekend in Mallorca. We are afterall hanging out with some of the best climbers in the world, so who better to talk about the equipment that we are using to get the really unique strobed shots we have been taking? This was [...]
Shooting Something That’s Been Shot A Million Times
I’m sure we’ve all had an experience where we find ourselves shooting something that has been shot before. Classic spots like Taft Point in Yosemite come to mind, how many millions of people must have taken photos from that exact spot? Golden Gate Bridge anyone? Still, a good photographer finds a way to shoot those [...]
More Mallorca
Here’s a quick vid from Mallorca. This shoot is another North Face project, focused almost entirely on video. The first part are live ‘dispatches’ from the field (edited by the athletes) that we are posting on facebook and other social media platforms and the second are more polished web videos for their main site (edited [...]
The Crib – Mallorca
‘I know you think I fell off, but I never really left’
We just got down from a week in the mountains shooting a tag team effort for RedBull Europe and The North Face, with Iker and Eneko Pou. It was an incredible week long shoot, high in the mountains (no internet=no blog updates) and the [...]
HEAVY BAGS #5 WHEN KEEPIN’ IT REAL GOES WELL
Here’s Pat’s 5th installment of the heavy bags series:
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HEAVY BAGS #5 WHEN KEEPIN’ IT REAL GOES WELL
Experience-Based Commercial Photography.
Would you like a microwave burrito served to you ready to eat? Or would you prefer being tossed a slab of fresh beef, a head of lettuce, tortillas, and a block of fine cheese? I pose [...]
Behind the Scenes: Dawn + Relentless
Last week, we did a two day shoot near the Great Salt Lake out in western Utah. In the summer months the level of the lake recedes and leaves behind fresh salt flat, it almost looks like hard packed snow. We were going for a ‘Mad Max’ type of look that the client — Dawn [...]
New Book
Just got my new book in the mail yesterday. Fresh off the presses. Its the second edition of my New England Bouldering Guidebook, packed with great color photo goodness, new topos, and some great short essays by Joe McLoughlin, David Wetmore, and Tino Fiumara. Pete Ward helped out once again as well. Click here to [...]
Fresh Ink
No, I didn’t get ink done in Brazil… although we were all tempted. Instead, I came back to a bunch of work in print and I really wanted to share because, well because I’m fricken stoked. Here’s what’s out right now:
- Popular Photography article about using speedlights on location (yikes, bad scan!)
- Climbing Magazine Gear [...]
The Return of Graphic Novel part. 2
Dawn+Relentless just released part two off the graphic novel. Its the boss, check it out!
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DIY: Alien Bees Power Pack — Lose Weight on Location for ‘09 — pt.2
This is the second of a two part post, if you haven’t seen part 1 check it out here.
Build Your Own Alien Bees Power Pack
I realize that this setup isn’t anything new for people that are electronics savvy. The Alien Bee Vagabond (Power Pack) is just a battery source connected to an inverter. The tough [...]
It’s All About the Details
Action Sport culture is no longer the way of the rebellious youth, it has become the Mainstream
Sure skate, surf, board culture have been defining fashion trends for the past several years… think Diesel was making those tight men’s jeans before it was skate culture norm 3 years ago, I don’t think so. Or that 80s [...]
Dawn and Relentless Shoot
About a month ago I started dialoging with a new brand from the outskirts of Boston called Dawn and Relentless about doing a shoot for their online and mail campaigns. Right from the start I was excited about finally putting the ideas and experiments with urban lifestyle and portraiture I had been playing with over the last 6 months [...]
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 [...]