Out

4 years in Juneau = 139,051 photos archived (likely 1,390,510 photos overall), 236 portrait subjects, 372 sports events. In total, my camera shutter was open for merely 2.32 minutes. In that time, made great friends and have many memories of a unique community.  Tomorrow morning, Atlantic Beach, NC... but tonight, going away party at Sandy Beach!

Be sure to keep coming back to this blog.  Lots of Juneau photos still to be uploaded.

PS: Here's some additional statistical geek-age:
806.28 GB of photos archived
Two camera shutter replacements
Cameras owned over four years: Canon 20D, Canon 30D, Canon 40D, Canon 1dmkIIn, Nikon D200, Nikon D3, Nikon D3s
Lenses owned over four years: Canon 24-70, Canon 70-200, Canon 50, Canon 85, Nikon 28-70, Nikon 24-70, Nikon 70-200, Nikon 70-200 VII, Nikon 85, Nikon 200-400.

Dylan: Studio Baseball

This, along with the swimmer photo posted earlier, might become the start of a studio sports series.  This shot was lit with an umbrella camera left and behind Dylan, while there was a bare bulb strobe camera right.  The "dust" is baby powder.  It took quite a bit of experimentation (and an entire bottle of baby powder) to get the effect just right, and the floor was rather slick for days after this shoot.

Basketball on the Runway: Alex Seniors

It really pays, sometimes, to live in a small town with a small airport, where the bureaucracies aren't quite as rough as say... LAX.  For Alex's senior photos, his mom got us permission to wander about the ramp area by the terminal (albeit escorted).

Seth: Studio Swimmer Session

Tried out some new ideas with Seth yesterday in the studio.  The idea was to have water "exploding" around a streamlining swimmer, as if breaking through a curtain of water.  Best shot of the session is the one above.

Lighting a Hangar: Rachel Seniors

(aka: a decent into the land of the gels)

Rachel's dad worked as a mechanic on the National Guard helicopters, so she wanted to do some of her senior photos with the helicopter in the background.  The dress was planned, but the camo vest was grabbed on a whim from the pilot's seat.  We ran two studio strobes (one each with red and blue gels) behind the helicopter, lighting the hangar door.  My assistant was standing on a ladder camera right lighting Rachel with an SB-900 and a Lastolite softbox.

Hypothermia Shoot 1: Glacial Swimming

Seth, Mendenhall Glacier

 Four shoots,  three lenses, two assistants, one softbox, one nearly frozen glacial lake, all to finally get the single, final image seen above.  But such is the cost of experimentation to learn a new technique.

2007-2010 Photo Book Released

he 2010 Minute Sixteen Photo Book is now available. Click on the link below for a full preview.

 

 Minute Sixteen Volume II