Dan Carr Photography - Photography Product Reviews + Ski, Snowboard and adventure photography tips » Photo of the week http://dancarrphotography.com/blog Mon, 21 May 2012 17:01:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 World cup bobsled in my home town http://dancarrphotography.com/blog/2010/11/26/world-cup-bobsled-in-my-home-town/ http://dancarrphotography.com/blog/2010/11/26/world-cup-bobsled-in-my-home-town/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:05:42 +0000 Dan Carr http://dancarrphotography.com/blog/?p=5145 [...]

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]]> 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

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]]> 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.  To mark the occasion I have decided to offer up a FREE wallpaper for your brand new iPad.  Wallpapers for the iPad need to be 1024px X 1024px.  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.

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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.  I’m offering it here for personal use only as a wallpaper for your iPad.

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



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Canon 5d MKII + 17-40 f4L  , 1/1000 ISO 800 f8.0

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

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]]> http://dancarrphotography.com/blog/2010/03/07/photo-from-the-archives/feed/ 1 The snow finally comes to whistler. http://dancarrphotography.com/blog/2009/03/16/the-snow-finally-comes-to-whistler/ http://dancarrphotography.com/blog/2009/03/16/the-snow-finally-comes-to-whistler/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:28:23 +0000 Dan Carr http://dancarrphotography.com/blog/?p=720 [...]

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]]> Well those of us living up in BC have been waiting patiently for this all winter.  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.  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!  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:

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]]> 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.  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.

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

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Shot with a Canon 1DMKIIN 1/250th f5.0 70mm on a 70-200 2.8L IS.  Lighting was from 3 sources.  On camera flash with red gel pointing at the wall.  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.

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It’s not always about the action shots, this shot is one of my favorites from a day in Vancouver with Anthony Boronowski last year (click to see it larger).  It had been a long time since Anthony had done a lot of urban and yet here he was trying to get his 270 on.  There’s so many little thing in this shot that i love.  His expression says a lot but also the severe snow storm that was blowing at the time gives a nicely different look to the image.  The university buildings emerging from the gloom in the background look ominous and you can even see Jeff Thomas from Theory-3 media standing on the roof of the building with his camera ready.  This one shot sums up a whole day; cold, wet, windy and damn hard work.  Making movies isn’t easy.

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The shot was taken with a Canon 1dMKIIN at 1/250, f6.1 and 17mm with a 17-40 f4.0L.  Lighting comes from 4 different sources.  At the bottom of the stairs just out of the left side of the frame is an Elinchrom Ranger on full power on top of an 8ft light stand with a sports reflector on it.  At the top of the stairs just ouf of the frame past the right hand railing is 2 X Vivitar 285s both on half power and running off one pocketwizard.  At my feet is another 285 on half power and on camera is also a Canon 580EX angled about 45 degrees to the left.  The transmitter pocketwizard is attached via a PC cord in this case as the hotshoe is taken up by the canon flash.

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Yuta Ueno at Snowpark in New Zealand.  Canon 1dMKIIN, 36mm on a 17-40, 1/1250, f8.0

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