World cup bobsled in my home town

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Nov 262010

I don’t often get to post photos of what I’m currently shooting because much of it has to stay under wraps until the clients have used them in the magazines or adverts. This weekend though I have my photojournalism hat on in my home town of Whistler, BC. The bobsled and skeleton world cup is here for the first round of the winter season at the Whistler Sliding Center that hosted the event for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Here is a photo from lasts nights 2-man bobsled event. Canada 1 bob piloted by Lyndon Rush grabbed joint second place in the event and I liked this shot of them pushing off from the start on their final run. Shooting in a snowstorm under artificial lighting in the dark is about as tough as it gets for sports shots so it really pays to have an f2.8 lens in this scenario. In my case I was using the Canon 300mm f2.8 L IS Even at f2.8 I was still at iso 4000 but the 1dMKIV handles that with no problem at all. Shooting in manual exposure is the way to go as the lighting does not change and I also used just the central AF point as that is also faster in the dark. A shutter speed of 1/320 was great for getting things mostly sharp but a little blur on their fee to show the speed they are running.

1/320 f2.8 iso 4000 ; Canon 1dMKIV Canon 300mm f2.8 L IS

Free iPad wallpaper downloads from Whistler

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May 272010

Tomorrow the Apple iPad will finally launch internationally,including in my home country of Canada. I have written previously about what an iPad can do for photographers and now everyone outside of the US can find out for themselves.Â To mark the occasion I have decided to offer up a FREE wallpaper for your brand new iPad.Â Wallpapers for the iPad need to be 1024px X 1024px.Â This is somewhat unusual, and only a portion of this picture will be able to be seen at one time, depending on whether you have the iPad in vertical or horizontal mode.

ipad_dancarr_whistler

The wallpaper I’m offering here is a photo of the Peak 2 Peak gondola at the ski resort of Whistler Blackcombb in my home town of Whistler, BC in Canada.Â I’m offering it here for personal use only as a wallpaper for your iPad.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

If you are interested in creating your own iPad wallpapers I have also created a photoshop template that will help you visualize exactly which parts of your photo will be visible when the iPad is in a particular orientation.Â You can DOWNLOAD THE IPAD WALLPAPER TEMPLATE by clicking the link.Â It is a .psd file which you can open and overlay as a separate layer on top of you image in photoshop.Â Make sure you lower the opacity a little bit on the template layer to reveal your photo underneath.Â Then you can move your image around until you have it in just the right spot so it will look good in both orientations !Â The areas covered by the red squares will never be seen, in either orientation.Â The center square will always be seen, and the yellow strips will be seen depending on whether you have it horizontal or vertical.

Photo from the archives

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Mar 072010

Canon 5d MKII + 17-40 f4LÂ , 1/1000 ISO 800 f8.0

This is an unused shot from a commercial shoot for Whistler Blackcomb last spring.Â You can view the final ads here in a old blog post.

The snow finally comes to whistler.

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Mar 162009

Well those of us living up in BC have been waiting patiently for this all winter.Â The snow has now been falling for a few days and today was probably the deepest day I have ever seen when i headed up with the Poorboyz crew with Charley Ager and Brandon Kelly as they shoot for their new movie Every Day Is a Saturday.Â It made it almost impossible to make any headway with out sleds and even the tree skiing we shot was tough as the depth of the snow made it hard for the guys to keep momentum going!Â It’s due to snow for the rest of the week too, looks like we will have a spring ski season after all…..

Charley Ager enters the whiteroom:

Charley and Brandon Kelly doubling up to the lines on the sleds:

Photo Of The Week - Lake Wakatipu

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Jan 302009

I’m going to mix things up here a bit, I was sorting out some old photos yesterday and came across this one that I really liked.Â Lake Wakatipu is just South if Queenstown in New Zealand.

Shot with a Canon 1DMKIIN, 70-200 2.8 at 130mm, f20.0, 1/50th, mirror lockup, remote release on a tripod.

Photo of the week - Austin Ross

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Dec 052008

This is my favorite shot from an urban trip with Theory-3 media.Â For a while I struggled to find a good angle to make an interesting shot.Â There was nothing on either side of the rail to use for composition and I was disappointed with the shots.Â Then I decided to get right up against a wall in front if the rail….. looking better.Â After a couple of shots like that it still needed something extra.Â I grabbed a red gel and fitted it to my Canon 580EX flash and put it on top of my camera pointing left at the wall.Â I plugged my pocketwizard trigger into the PC socket on the side of the camera and BAM there it was.Â This other shot shows what the rail and the surroundings looked like.

Strobist info:

Shot with a Canon 1DMKIIN 1/250th f5.0 70mm on a 70-200 2.8L IS.Â Lighting was from 3 sources.Â On camera flash with red gel pointing at the wall.Â Elinchrom Ranger at full power about 10ft to camera right and 2 vivitar 285s on full power at the top of the rail just off to the left hidden by the wall.