They did play. I shot. They were great. I left happy but wishing more people my age would pile up and sing along. If that is my biggest gripe of the month I'm good. 

1780 shots from my Sony A1 all lit with my Westcott FJ80II speedlight and played back to the song God Vs I from the equal vision release "Fairhaven" 

Ibis, Egret, Night Heron, and more all well within reach of my A1 and 200-600

"Letting go is never easy to do
Everyday's a new door that we all must go through
I've learned so much, you're never gone, my friend
I know we'll meet the same shining end
 

Forget the who, the what, the when, the where, the why
Did you love something with all of your might?"

BANE "Calling Hours"

July 2 the BANE family came together to pay tribute to Brendan "Stu" Maguire at the House of Blue's in Boston. It was a fitting tribute to a fallen family member that was a part of not just the Bane family but the HOB and Boston music scene. I've tried to write this about a dozen times and it's a continuous mix between reporting it and trying to show the feelings...I don't know that the words can convey the feelings. This past year was full of loss and gains and it seems everytime i wrap my head around it something else tragic happens....

I hate the cliché of i'll let the photos do the talking but in this case... I'm going to have to let it go at that... It was both the most joyous show i've been to in a long while and the saddest - seeing my friends push themselves after 5 years off and seeing them not miss a beat was a wondrous event - wrapped in utter sadness.... 

Can We Start Again?

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Created these images during spring training 2021 with the New York Mets using the Westcott FJ Wireless Flash System. 

Gear Used:

Westcott X-Drop Background

Westcott FJ400

Westcott FJ200

Rapid Box Switch Octa L

Rapid Box Switch 1x3 Strip with Grid

Sony A7rIV

Sigma 105 2.8 Dg Dn

When i was setting this up the main shoot was a solid gray background as requested by the Mets - off to the right in the BTS at the end of this post you can see where these images were created. The set up was super basic and purposefully built in such a way that i would get a decent result with players that were 5'8 like Marcus Stroman and people that were 6'8 like Dellin Betances. Due to covid protocols i was not allowed closer than 10 feet from the players which informed a lot of decisions for the day. 

I stared with the X drop. I knew I had limited space and I knew i wanted something totally opposite from my main image set. The high contrast black background was the opposite in every way. Instead of even light i went with a very directional moody lighting direction. The black fabric of the X-Drop ate up the light with no reflection and was perfect in this use. 

I went with the Rapid Box Octa L due to how much i love the quality of light that comes from it as well as the fact that it is my largest octa meaning it would give me coverage for all size players. When shooting baseball players i have to take into account the hat so my light is set on more of a parallel line to them than i would do on a traditional portrait. The Octa was being filled with light from a Westcott FJ400. 

My rim light set to camera left and 180 degrees opposite of the octa was in a Rapid Box Switch 1x3 with the grid. I wanted to keep the light tight and focused to help accentuate the drama. 

All images are f/4 at 1/200th of a second...

Lets Go Mets! 

Lately I've been carrying my 2 Light Fj-400 kit with the Medium Rapid Box Octa and the 1x 3 Strip. it's funny that i didn't consciously plan it this way but it happens to be the kit that Westcott sells together....(get it from a local store if you are thinking about it - small business owners need your support more than ever) We ended up taking our first shot at 4:38pm and our last at 6:19pm for a total of 101 minutes of shooting. During that time it rained twice. Once after we had walked to location. I'm not saying this in hopes you'll call me a wambulance. I'm just saying that for such a short shoot i'm very proud we managed a few different looks and different set ups within the looks....We started by walking out and around a couple corners till i saw the grafiti door and the purple flower door and i started to set up the lights... two seconds later the wind started hard and then the rain... we scurried back to the apartment and of course it stopped raining. We had a bit of roof access so we headed up there with the gear and again i got to the point where i had attached my Rapid Box Octa M to the Fj-400 and it started to rain again... We moved in the stairwell and i said - lets shoot while we wait...

That brings us to the set of images we shot in the stairwell - i used the medium Octa as my main light at the top of the stairs and then aimed a bare FJ-400 into the corner at camera left to blow out the walls and add some fill for really soft light....

All shots during this shoot were with the Sony A7rIV

Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art

4:38 - 4:32 PM

I checked outside and it had stopped but the sky still looked like it didn't know what it wanted to do... I set up the lights and grabbed a few of Stacy-Ann with the World Trade as the backdrop....

Sigma 135mm f/1.8 DG HSM Art

4:44 - 4:48 PM

The sky was not exactly what i wanted so i decided to go with the old standard and put Stacy-Ann against the bricks for a few before we would change outfits and location... 

Sigma 135mm f/1.8 DG HSM Art

4:51 - 5:00 PM

The rain seemed under control and even though i knew i could explore the rapidly changing sky we decided to do an outfit switch and go back to the street where we had first set up earlier. We were now fully starting to feel the weight of the clock on us - Stacy had a dinner planned... She switched into this dress and i set up some very simple lighting to try to maximize the time...As mentioned above the grafiti door and the the flower door were just inches apart... 

5:29 - 5:39 PM

We then moved the lights and Stacy to the street to the left of where i was shooting these... the dinner was at 7 with a 15 minute travel so we had less than an hour left and knew we wanted to get some shots in front of her building before she moves to the future.... so it was time to hustle a bit....

Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG DN Art

5:41 - 5:43 PM

Starting to do the "we gotta going" dance that is closely related to the peepee dance... I'm very anal about time and even though Stacy was pretty chill about it I didn't want to be the reason she was late....

We started walking back to the house and i saw a rough white wall on the corner and decided i could do a quick white background and then turn for a more edgy light off the same wall....

Same lens

5:50 - 5:52 PM

Home stretch now - I'm carrying the lights and the camera and the stands and the mods and rushing to her apartment so she can change into something that she will yet again look great in while i try to figure out how to get what I want with two lights.... 

She comes down and like always she looks super cool - i set up and we shoot some shots to say good bye to the door step....

6:11 - 6:19 PM

Great shoot - the lights were consistent. No misfires. That is all you can ask from pro gear... The camera and lenses did what they needed to do and Stacy just killed it.... 

101 Minutes from first shot to last.... 

Despite overall being a pretty day the clouds were moving fast and the sun was in and out forcing some very quick changes to the set ups. Controlling the ambient became the battle as the FJ-400's produced consistent beautiful light for the subjects. 

Gear Used:

Strobe - FJ-400

Rapid Box Switch Octa M

Rapd Box Switch 1 x 4 

Apollo Orb 43"

Sony A7rIV

Sigma 135 1.8

Sigma 85 1.4

Sigma 35 1.4

BTS At The End

BTS 

Make Up - MakeOverByNess

Lighting Gear - 2 Westcott FJ400 with various Westcott Mods

Camera - Sony A7rIV with 70-200 2.8 and 35 1.4

Please feel free to reach out with any questions...

With that being said sometime technology is a key to freeing me to be more creative. In the case of the SB-5000 and WR-10 from Nikon technology has gone a long way toward helping me stop thinking about challenges and focus on the things that matter to me like the quality of the light... the location... the pose and the subjects location...

Follow these steps below to get your WR-10 system from being a very cool part of the Nikon ecosystem to being a tool in your arsenal that helps you create....

My Z7 is my go to for almost everything that I shoot. If i really need to push the limits of ISO or framerate i will pick up my Z6 but 99% of the time the Z7 is the camera in my hand. The file, the color, the form factor all work for me just right. With the release of the 3.0 firmware the focus has been spot on regardless of lighting conditions. I love my S lenses for the Z mount - in this case the 14-30. I can't wait to revisit this location with some subjects to light....

When he told me who was in the band with him i started to feel more confident that my worries were mislaid.

When i heard the demos I knew that I had nothing to worry about. 

To say that Be Well is my favorite new band right now is an understatement. 

from the Equal Vision Records press release.... 

"Be Well is a new band with deep roots. Musically, it’s emotionally gripping, with an expertly executed blend of melodic hardcore with notes of 90’s post-hardcore influence. The lyrics are deeply personal, and the vocals harken back to early DC bands like Rites of Spring and Embrace. The members include Peter Tsouras (Guitar) and Shane Johnson (Drums) from Fairweather, Mike Schleibaum (guitar) of Darkest Hour, and Aaron Dalbec (Bass) from Bane. Rounding out the quintet is the vocalist, Brian McTernan, who is known for his production work with bands like Circa Survive, Hot Water Music, Turnstile and Thrice. Be Well’s energy is relentless as McTernan chronicles his struggles with depression and fatherhood through lyrics that are equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful. Fans of the individual members’ past work have anxiously awaited Be Well’s first recorded music. What they’ll get in the band’s 7-inch (released on Equal Vision) will undoubtedly live up to the anticipation."

TECH: shot with nikon d780 with lights from westcott FJ 400 strobe

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Be Well Strength For Breath 

Be Well Frozen
 

For this game i chose to put a Nikon 200 f/2 on my Z6 and use the 24-70 2.8 Nikon S lens on my Z7. The 200 is definitely not long enough for most of the game but in the end zone if I happened to get lucky i might get something. I put both cameras in H* for shooting speed... both in manual with 1/1250th to 1/1600th shutter speeds and auto ISO so that if i changed aperture or the light changed a little I'd be ok. I would never have shot Auto ISO years ago but this has become my normal set up when i shoot sports as I want control of the shutter speed and the aperture for creative choices while the ISO is simply a light gathering decision. My apertures were mostly wide open or close to it. You don't carry the 200 f/2 to shoot it at f/8. I'm chose it for it's unique look that paid off on some shots in a big way. In hind sight i would have put the 200 on the Z7 to allow more ability to crop the beautiful giant file in post but i was more concerned in the moment with ISO and frame rate.

Here we go...

This was the first image I took as I took a position at the Clemson endzone and shot up with the Z7 and 24-70 2.8 S - nothing happening but it set the scene for me. 

This would be the last time Clemson had a real chance to make a game of it after scoring a touchdown to make it 28-25

The beginning of the end - with Clemson up 17-7 LSU QB Joe Burrow ran in a Touchdown. Clemson was outscored 35-8 starting here.

Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence just couldn't get it done against a tough LSU defense

After catching two TD's all season LSU Tight End (and Randy Moss's son) Thaddeus Moss caught two in the biggest game of his career

This is the opposite view of the amazing image that Sports Illustrated ended up using on the special edition cover of Joe Burrow directing blockers as he ran from trouble one more time.

This series defined the way the game was after the first quarter. Clemson tried valiantly but was left beaten rather badly at the end.

This was the sequence of the game for me - the 200 f/2 really created a great look and the Z6 AF did it's job as i captured the final TD of the game thrown by Heisman winner Joe Burrow to Terrace Marshall Jr 

Using the Z50 was super intuitive as it's very close to my Z7 only much smaller and lighter. Paired with the light and fast 50 1.8 S the camera immediately had me thinking about travel and having a camera with a big sensor (DX sized) and AF system that was barely more intrusive than my cell phone. Being able to carry that and make the kind of images you see below and in the sports post I'll be putting up soon was a dream to me a few years ago. 

I took three photos of Thor. One with all three strobes. One with the bottom softbox turned off. and One with the available light from the windows and the Profoto's modeling lamps. That was it. I did the black and white in Silver Efex Pro 

Which do you prefer?

Color first - 1. All Strobes 2. 2 Strobes 3. Modeling Lights

Black and White next - same order

Interested to hear your opinions

all that being said if it wasn't for the friendships and the relationships that i've built at shows with the bands, the other content creators, the people that are at every show singing along I wouldn't be shooting it still. 

Thank you 108 for having me along. Thank you Kate for inviting me to capture these evenings of fun and mayhem. 

the photos from Brooklyn Bazzaar will be in another post - enjoy

CLICK ON ONE IMAGE AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE FULL TAKE 

This year i spent the day with friends and captured some shots. I'm an awful landscape guy. I don't have the patience to be great at it. If I wanted patients i'd be a doctor. But yesterday was the first time in a while that standing around while the camera counted down 20 - 30 second exposures to finish was fun. Thanks Cliff, Anthony, and Nick. 

Here they are and this is the part i'm comfy talking about....

All shot on Nikon Z7. All at ISO 64. All with either 24-70 2.8 S, 85 1.8 S, or the 300 f/4 PF with FTZ. Mostly 30 seconds or right around it.

Landscape photography is just like all photography. It's about light. We didn't get fantastic light yesterday. Humidity was reminiscent of July which added some haze. In hindsight we should have started in Bayonne and moved after but...ifs and buts etc. 

Enjoy. 

Now that you've done that - here are my images of Train while they tour with Goo Goo Dolls and Allen Stone from the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel New Jersey. Some of my favorites are when Allen Stone and John Rzeznik joined the band on stage. 

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Walter, Civ, Luke, Arthur, Charlie - Thank you

Alex - RIP

New Direction

I shot these stills from the pit with my Nikon D5 turned up to 12,800 iso and my 24-70 VR - I had some physical difficulties do to a stage diving incident (not me diving) earlier during the Cro-Mags so I wasn't as mobile as usual and decided to keep a free hand in case i lost balance rather than use the flash. The lights were a challenge but it came out ok....

Being there in Richmond with over a 1000 people that seemingly knew every word, watching the band play like the last dozen years didn't exist was magic. Pure unadulterated magic. 

I shot the first night of their reunion and it was worth the drive. Worth the sweat. Worth the LONG ass drive back North. 

The club said no flash. I said ok and I shot as fast as my D5 would let me knowing I was going to put together a hyperlapse.

Here it is. 5000 plus images set to AVAIL's "Simple Song"

I hope i can find a way to shoot Brooklyn and/or Asbury Park - it was great to feel 20 again.

Quicksand

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Disengage

Well it's so sad to see all our good qualities
gradually slipping away and fading
and we better act quick because I'm getting sick
of how much it's becoming degrading
in this age when everything's falling apart
disengage don't think I'm crazy
for not wanting to take part
when morality is defeated
compassion is deleted
all in the name of our desire
and we've got to be blind
or just losing our minds
if we can't see this world's on fire
we've got to disengage
can't you see this age
dragging us down,
down to the ground
we've got to disengage
and I think it's sad that our society's gone mad
possessed by taking more than we need
and our motivation's a sad situation
because it's fueled by anger envy and greed
 

After getting all my dreams of epic Joshua Tree timelapses crushed last year i returned to the scene determined to make something as magical as I was seeing in my head. As is the case with 99% of my travel it was work related meaning i don't pick the when or the where but I try to fit in some creativity to go with the work. That means that we had a half-moon which pretty much was going to spoil my dreams of an epic Milky Way shot but I was willing to try to work around that. What I couldn't work around in my quest was the clouds coming in for the second year in a row. 

I was out with my friend Mark Suban and we scouted till about 8 pm finding a spot that we both liked which had added bonus of me not having shot it the last time i was here. It was clear and cold and I was excited. We ate and took a nap till 1 am to head back out. it was low 30's but no wind and we found our spot. I set up my timelapse already knowing that i was going to have some challenges as there was a bit of cloud cover but it was spotty. Since I was already pretty sure the moon glow was going to take away my hopes of a big Milky Way shot I was cool with some sparse clouds rolling through with the stars moving in the opposite direction giving me an extra sense of movement. I set the interval on my Nikon Z7 to one shot every 22 seconds with 20 second exposures and set it for 4 hours thinking i'd catch the moon move through the frame and then the beginnings of some warm light creeping into my scene. 

Fast forward a couple of hours of trying to sleep in the car while the shooting was going on - the moon was lost behind solid clouds. The stars were nowhere to be seen. We decided to call it and get some rest as we had a lot more driving....

So here it is.... A couple of stills from the shoot and the timelapse. 

This year has been a tough one.  It started with me standing in the rain as they took my brother away to the medical examiner's office. 

Unfortunately he wouldn't be the last person in my life that I lost way too young this year. 

Just days before the Alone In A Crowd benefit show in Philly for Howie the world lost Alex Brown. I only met Alex a couple times over the years but his music was in my ear for my entire adult life. Side By Side, Project X, and of course Gorilla Biscuits. 

One of the most memorable moments I've had in 30+ years of going to hardcore shows was Jules, Carl, Lars, and Rob stopping in the middle of Living a Lie where Jules would scream "Alex!" - Jules quietly said "Alex" and waited for the stage dives to stop and the crowd to go silent for a moment. It was an eerie moment that I'll never forget. 

My video is shaky. The sound is bad. You can hear me at times screaming over the vocals and the music. I'm not sharing this as a work of art but as a document of a moment....

Thanks

It coulda been a shit show. A few old men coulda mailed it in. But they didn't. They got on stage. Pointed and jumped and inspired pile ons and stage dives and did it for a good cause.

Alone In A Crowd, Side By Side, Breakdown/Raw Deal/Killing Time, Uppercut, - plus covers from GI, Warzone, and Misfits. What a set list. What energy. 

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Riding down with the Search guys...shooting portraits with Alone In a Crowd. Chatting with people I haven't seen in years. Being in the middle of it all. Thank you. 

That has changed. Holy moly has that changed. The new Z 7 (can't wait to try the Z 6) focus like a dream with video. Tracking subjects and moving between subjects smoothly. The af works great with my natives Z mount lenses and with my F mount lenses used with the FTZ.... 

I mixed a bunch of footage and sped some up from the native 120 fps in order to fit it in with the song... 

Looking forward to more video in the future....

Well both. 

I'll start by saying this. Bold, Breakdown, and Outburst were all tight. All played with energy. And all sounded great. I always find the vocals at Brooklyn Bazaar to be a little low but i'm not a sound guy and I was a singer in a band so i probably will always think that. The bands came straight out of the late 80's when hardcore ruined me for most of the hardcore that would follow. I love sing alongs and stage dives. This was a great night for that. I wish the old folks at the back would have come to see the bands instead of stand at the bar but that is not a band issue... 

The Z7 rocked. The images are sharp. The flash system worked great. The FTZ adaptor worked like it should which is to mean i didn't realize it was on once i started shooting. The shots were mostly taken at ISO 1000 so that my flashes could cycle fast enough to keep up with the frame rate of the camera. The video is so good that I want to shoot more video and that is not my norm. I love it. (i'm predisposed to love things that start with Z...) 

Thanks Dave, Lindsay, and Alfredo from Nikon. Thanks Peter from Sandisk. Thanks to the SaveEllisIsland.org crew who really are awesome and helping to preserve history. Thanks to the students. Just thanks. 

Nikon Z 7 at Ellis IslandNikon School joined forces with the Save Ellis Island non-profit to host a workshop led by Nikon ambassador Joe McNally. These are the images i captured with the Nikon Z 7 Nikon Z 7 at Ellis IslandNikon School joined forces with the Save Ellis Island non-profit to host a workshop led by Nikon ambassador Joe McNally. These are the images i captured with the Nikon Z 7 Nikon Z 7 at Ellis IslandNikon School joined forces with the Save Ellis Island non-profit to host a workshop led by Nikon ambassador Joe McNally. These are the images i captured with the Nikon Z 7
 

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Nikon Z 7 at Ellis IslandNikon School joined forces with the Save Ellis Island non-profit to host a workshop led by Nikon ambassador Joe McNally. These are the images i captured with the Nikon Z 7 Nikon Z 7 at Ellis IslandNikon School joined forces with the Save Ellis Island non-profit to host a workshop led by Nikon ambassador Joe McNally. These are the images i captured with the Nikon Z 7 Nikon Z 7 at Ellis IslandNikon School joined forces with the Save Ellis Island non-profit to host a workshop led by Nikon ambassador Joe McNally. These are the images i captured with the Nikon Z 7
 

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What to say? Best met position player ever? To me...yes. If you put character and longevity into it then it's not a contest. 11 fullyears...a few injured but always a smile off the field and a ready to roll look on it. No drama. No off the field incidents. 14 years. .296 average with seven seasons hitting at least .300. 242 home runs. 2 silver sluggers. 2 gold gloves. 196 steals. All great. Not hall of fame numbers but to the Mets fan - he is the best we've ever had. He played 1586 games at third for the Mets. The next highest total was Howard Johnson at 835.

Mets records? Most of em. 

• New York Mets all-star leader
• New York Mets career RBI leader
• New York Mets career doubles leader
• New York Mets career total bases leader
• New York Mets career runs scored leader
• New York Mets career hits leader
• New York Mets career walks leader
• New York Mets career runs created leader
• New York Mets career extra-base hits leader
• New York Mets career times on base leader
• New York Mets career sacrifice flies leader

I had the honor to photograph him the last 5 years... to root for him his entire run. And to say goodbye in person and capture images of his last game as a Major Leaguer... Farewell David... Farewell

These are images of Japanese tennis star Kei Nishikori as he heads to the semi-finals at the US Open 

I have seen them a few times over the years.

I have seen them play a bunch of sets and they've always been tight.

I have never heard them play the landmark self-titled record in it's entirety.

That was cool. 

Thanks to House of Vans for hosting an epic night with ST, Killing Time, and Chud.

Mike Muir and the band attacked House of Vans in Brooklyn with a super tight set of punkrock hardcore metal classics from the 1983 debut record. From the opening wails of Suicides An Alternative through the entire first EP until the band closed with Pledge Your Allegiance the band was in constant motion. Long time guitarist Dean Pleasants, bass player Ra Diaz, former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo kept both themselves and the crowd moving. Special treat at this show was former Dillinger Escape Plan founder Ben Weinman playing guitar as well as Mitts formerly of Madball. It's amazing how tight the band is with rotating members over the years but they are and they do it all while moving like a band that is just starting out. Great energy. 

Check out this timelapse i shot during the show with my Nikon D5. I shot about 2800 photos of the band and then added War Inside My Head from the bands second full length record. All those images end up compressed down to about 3 and a half minutes. 

Suicidal Tendencies - War Inside My Head timelapseover 2800 images captured with Nikon D5 to create this 3 minute timelapse

about 2200 photos from my Nikon D5 went into making this... more really but i deleted a bunch where the lights just were non-existent in the club. 

Enjoy - 

D850 - Bulb Mode - ISO 100 - f/8

Lots of trial and error - using the WR-10 as my remote meant i was counting off the exposures in my head or simply based on the activity in front of me. I knew that at 4 seconds at my settings I was picking up the last pale light of the west as that was the direction my camera was facing and the sun had only set a little while before. Most of the exposures in this set are between 2 and 5 seconds with a few outliers on either direction. The shorter ones were either mistakes where I thought there would be more "boom" and got less or i was late and only exposed for what was left of the explosion. The longer ones were me messing around and mostly finding that because the majority of the display was straight up and down in the same spot I just ended up with an overexposed mess. 

Here you go! 

4th of July Timelapse 2018Timelapse created by about 150 images on July 6th 2018 during the South Brunswick Independence Day festivities. All images shot with Nikon D850

By The Grace of God and Search played their hearts out last night. Here are the images. You shoulda been there.

(apologies to Old Ghost and The Path - traffic and daddy duties had me late...)

First two files are timelapses of all the images I shot set to songs by the bands... 

enjoy. share. be there next time.

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JUSTIFY - 2018

Justify launches from the starting line. This image was captured with the Nikon D850 and the 19mm PC lens. Remote photography has a strange set of rules as to whom gets credit for an image. I framed the shot, input the settings, and hoped for the best. The amazing Tim Lanahan pushed the trigger and helped make sure that during the various track waterings and harrowings that my camera stayed in place and was A-Ok. Thanks Tim. Really a team image. Thanks to Adam Coglianese for all your advice and access and to the immortal Skip Dickstein for 5 years of advice that have led to me being able to get any remote images. 

The two images below are with the same set up at the end of the race as Justify wins the 2018 Triple Crown. Remote photography can be a guessing game and in this case i guessed wrong. He ran far out from the rail and didn't give me the image i had imagined when i set it up. It's ok - History and all that. And the experience. An opportunity for the future. Luckily even though Justify ran so far to the middle the amazing resolution of the D850 allowed for a rather extreme but still sharp crop in the second shot below. He was nowhere near where I expected so my sharpness isn't perfect but still a reasonable shot...

I shot the race from with a D850 and the 180-400 and the lens is special. i really was having some issues with making sure I was out of the way of people as Justify led the pack down the stretch and i didn't get what i wanted (notice a theme here) but again...history. With great people. While I'm working. Great day. 

Thanks to all the photographers that cover the race (obviously especially the Nikon shooters) but really to all of them that provide inspiration each year as I strive to figure out how to capture a pack of mammals running at high speed in a circle in a unique or at least acceptable way...

Thanks Ray, Porcell, Sammy - what a trip it's been....

All images shot with Nikon D850 and 20 1.8 - Lit images with Nikon SB-5000 and WR-10 

Click HERE to see all the images from the Shelter set....There are a lot! 

This year we challenged ourselves to shoot portraits of photographers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with four Nikon SB-5000 speedlights, MagMod modifiers, and a D850. We used the 105 1.4 for 99% of the shots with the 35 1.4 Nikkor used for 3 shots in the group due to necessity for a wider lens. Then the characters started walking by wondering what we were up to. Being friendly we explained. Being friendly race fans they asked if they could join the fun. We obliged. Meeting all the people that come to this race is one of the cool parts of the event. All ages, shapes, backgrounds come together to celebrate speed. And drink. Lots of drinking. Our posing advice consisted of two pieces of tape on the ground and then trying to capture a bit of the character of the attendees.

A sociology study of sorts mixing with the science of light and the art of photography to create this project... Thank you for all who gave us their time (average about 45 seconds) 

Check below to see a Behind the Scenes shot of our set up....Main Light and fill light have MagMod Spheres on them while the two back lights have MagMod Grids on the Nikon SB-5000's. We were using the Nikon WR-10 set to control the flashes wirelessly making for changing the setting easy when needed. Shooting manual that wasn't often but it was nice to have the ability and not have to worry about line-of-site etc when commanding the flashes. You can see we are actually using the door to our depot to hold up part of the black table cloth that became our impromptu background. 

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We hope you like it and we hope the people that stood in love the portraits as much as we loved taking them....

THE INDY PEOPLE PROJECT (CLICK TO VIEW THE WHOLE PROJECT)

Here is my favorite shot of the whole day - Brien took this one while i worked the lights. It makes me smile because I shot the same woman two years ago at the 100th Indy 500. She just happened to be peddling past us and we were able to get this image that i just absolutely love. I ended up shooting a lot of the image during the day but this one is my absolute fave and Brien did a great job capturing it.

Portraits taken at the 2018 Indy 500 using Nikon D850 and four Nikon SB-5000 Speedlights. Modification of the light was accomplished with the MagMod Sphere and Grids. Photo Credits - Brien Aho and JC Carey

The band played a killer set over 40 or so minutes featuring all 4 songs from the debut ep as well as tracks from their newest LP "Do Or Die" which came out on Deathwish Records last year. Seeing the band rework old songs and bring new but familiar energy is akin to watching a jazz quartet re-imagine a standard with finesse but also the power the band is known for.  so good. 

All images taken with Nikon D850 and 20 1.8 Nikkor lens. 

C'mon now - you know I'm wordier than that.

Snapcase was never my favorite band. They came too late to be in the running for that and too early to be the band that helped bring me back to the hardcore world. What they were was a band that put on a great show. Had insightful lyrics with a singer that I could understand. That was big for me in 93-97 when it seemed like every band was deciding that sing alongs and stage dives were not as cool as indecipherable lyrics and chug chug beatdown dance parts. What sucked for me was that i liked the dance parts but what brought me into this world were the lyrics. Without them it was hollow and I would gladly sit and listen to the stuff that baptized me into this world rather than new bands. There WERE new bands of course that mean something to me. Some like Burn (who also played and killed this show - pics in another post) and Quicksand were phoenix rising from the ashes of bands that I loved. Their were bands like Avail that a few years earlier might have been too "punk" for me but instead were perfect. There were the Sick Of It All's of the world - bands I grew up in the scene with and that NEVER stopped playing....There were the random Killing Time shows and the Wetlands and Coney Island High scenes and I was always transported to a good place when I went but I didn't go as much because if it wasn't the bands i grew up with then...well in the course of 4-5 years things just weren't the same. Back to Snapcase. They were never as hard as their upstate NY brethren. The lyrics were understandable and with each record they were growing up just as I was. By the time that 2000's Designs for Automation came out I was back in love with hardcore...So while they may not have been my favorite band. They were an important band to me. Those bands that carried the baton for me from 93-97 are almost more important than the bands that made me fall in love the first time. Those are the bands that kept my love of hardcore alive. From the reaction the crowd gave tonight...They are still super important.

For this show - Holy Shit! They were tight. I saw them last at the Anti Matter show and for some reason my memory does not have them sounding like this. Great set with energy, passion, and precision. They were amazing last night. Thanks guys! 

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"You're first ten thousand photographs are your worst" - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth" - Mike Tyson

Last night I spent a few hours out in the cold trying desperately to capture the Lyrids meteor shower. Living in central New Jersey it's not ideal - too much light pollution makes the relative brightness of the stars seem diminished compared to the same view out West or in areas with less population (and hence less manmade light)  I picked a spot i've driven by based on the power lines in the background without scouting in day light. MISTAKE. The ground basically is a marsh at this point due to the rain. So I never could get away from the road like i wanted so you see the flickering of headlights to camera right. I used my Skyguide app to see where the meteor shower was supposed to be most visible. I aimed. I picked an exposure that would show me the stars and give me the foreground and diminish the houses on the horizon and.... voila! I got this. Not what i expected and with very little meteor activity. 

So it's morning. I'm tired. i'm disappointed and trying to find solace in the fact that I learned a few things, that any time shooting is better than sitting on the couch, that I have this thing to share and even if it's not what I wanted it to be it's something I made from nothing.

350 shots at 10 seconds each to be...underwhelmed. Add in the time processing the images and...well It's not the worst thing I've ever shot but I'm happy that with timelapses the 10,000 shots Mr. Cartier-Bresson spoke of come very fast.... 

The next day I of course decided to go by the plane and try to create something cool that would memorialize my excitement. I couldn't but I did create some fun timelapses of two of the ten remaining flight worthy B-17's in the world. The first you see below was of the "Movie Memphis Belle" and the second two are of my all time favorite plane - the Texas Raiders B-17G (both are awesome - just the Texas Raiders was the first and you always love your first)

Big thanks to Jose Ramos and Doug DeFelice for hanging out and helping me with the hardest part of doing timelapse - the boredom while it's shooting. You guys rule. 

All timelapses were created with Nikon D850 

Enjoy

I captured the images that this timelapse is made up of using my Nikon D850 and the 8-15 fisheye. All motion was controlled via the Syrp Genie Mini. All images were shot in the NEF (Nikon Raw) file format and converted after to Jpgs. This is a heavily compressed 1080P version because of the limits of my blog. II exported the files ready for 8K but I don't have a way to process that currently. Gotta love the D850. The one thing that I will add when I do the final product is sound. Since I shot this yesterday and wanted to share I haven't had time to try to find music that really works for me but I will. Triple Scoop Music has such a large collection of music that I really couldn't find the piece that I thought best. 

The process of trying to create timelapse can be hit and miss as you try to make sure that you get smooth action and movement while maintaining the security of your gear and praying that you get action that is interesting to the end viewer. When I shoot a timelapse in the desert or an abandoned building I can just walk away for a bit or take a nap if i like. Hard to do when surrounded by a sell out crowd. The other obvious issue is that you are really hoping for natural movement such as clouds or other motion. The 45000 people certainly helped to create dynamic images even though the sky would not cooperate. I had to underexpose the sky by 4 stops for some of these shots to get even a hit of cloud movement. Again - thank the camera gods for the D850 and it's dynamic range. 

I really enjoyed the smaller pieces such as the sausage stand. This was the first timelapse I've ever done this way where I knew I had multiple shots I wanted to edit together for the final project and all this did was whet my appetite. Next time I'll hopefully bring more than one camera in order to capture multiple views of the same scene at the same time to allow for more creative editing. 

The Syrp really helps give me something slightly different and for 250 dollars it's become invaluable to me when I decide to take on these types of projects. I wish i could use it in combination with the silent shutter mode the D850 brings to the table when I'm controlling the timelapse internally but it's a worthy trade-off for such an inexpensive piece of gear that brings production value to the shots. 

First time I'd seen Ice Cold Killers and they were really good. 3rd time with Krimewatch. Always good. Always fierce. 

Outburst - it had been 27 years since I saw them. Last time was at City Gardens and they were amazing. Pit was wild and the band was energetic. Great job. 

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On Black Friday 2017 I was able to capture the 30th Anniversary show of Killing Time at the Brooklyn Bazaar and was lucky to be in close with the band (i even got to soundcheck....badly) and share the joy of knowing that there is a room full of people that love you. Love what you are and were and what you represented to them. 

I love you guys...

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