Oversized work

Some recent work I shot for a local college and hospital. It's always fun to see it larger than life!

Foto Flo Workshop 2.0

XMP, DNG, Presets, and Catalogs. AHHH. The crew of Malone & Co had their 2nd Lightroom Workshop last Sunday.

Pictured are Mike Malone, Chris Rich, Kerri Garrison, Julie Morris, Kameron Bayne, Geoff Johnson, Megan Nosbish, Ann Luchsinger, Sarah Pfeiffer, and Andrew Marinkovich. Also, not in the photo but attended is Cara Bresette-Yates, and the Torchwerkers.

It was great having everyone out. Don't forget to save your work!

Malcolm Gladwell

Last week I had the chance to photograph Author Malcolm Gladwell. I'm a huge fan of his book The Tipping Point and have yet to read Blink or his latest Outliers.

Malcolm was in town for the YPC Summit as the Keynote Speaker. The crews of Malone & Co and Torchwerks were on set and I got the opportunity to snap a few portraits of him.

I wanted to go simple, so I took the Strobist approach. Most of the time I resort to a Large Chimera Octabank and Dynalites. This time it was 2 Canon 580 EX IIs and the all new Radio Poppers PXs, which worked awesome as I was able to shoot high speed flash sync to knock out the background. I can't wait to use these outside!

New York

After the past few months on the road, my travels are finally slowing down.I have a couple more short road trips over the next week and then a break (finally). Recently Andrew, Mike and I headed out to NYC for PhotoPlus Expo. It was nice to see how the workflow at Malone & Co. (and GJP) are really in line with many of the top pros out there. Check out the gallery of images from the city here.

I need to give my client Peter and Stephanie a huge thanks for letting us crash at their place! Andrew and I will be heading to the British Virgin Islands in February to shoot their wedding.

Templeton Rye

A few weeks ago while shooting in Iowa the locals told us about a distillery that was brought back to life from the prohibition era. We headed over to Templeton, home of Templeton Rye Whiskey where Kevin gave us a private tour. There is some cool history about this whiskey including that this was Al Capone's favorite. If you're ever in the area you should stop by and then go pick up "The Good Stuff".

New Camera

So I'm going back to my roots and shooting some film. Yeah right, but I do love Polaroid. Too bad they're stopping film production soon. Check out Save Polaroid for some great info and links.

Andrew got me excited earlier this year with his Holgaroid. I bought one too and then while searching Ebay for film, I found a Polaroid Land Camera 350. It's Rangefinder that shoots pack film (full frame 3 1/4 x 4 1/4) that you can still find. There's even some 667 out there that's rated at ISO 3000. I can't wait to break this in on Saturday at the Wedding Event of the Year. There will be about 10 of us shooting and Andrew has made me the official media coordinator.

Humphrey, NE: Angela + Brent

Myself along with Andrew Marinkovich and Ben Drickey came fully loaded to cover it all at Angela's wedding last week. Congrats to Brent and Angela- thanks for the great day! You are going to have plenty of images to look through!

Coach Carroll at USC

This past June Lora Davis and I headed out to LA for a shoot at USC. The 8 minute session was a record for shortest amount of time allowed.

Check out the behind the scenes video over at Malone & Company.

Save a horse, ride a bull

Last week I was shooting the nightlife scene at Legends in Kansas City. The Saddle Ranch comes to life with everyone wanting a ride on the mechanical bull.

Meet your Surgery team

Heather McCain, Lora Davis and myself have a little fun on the set while shooting in North Platte.

ONE Magazine

I shoot a good amount of editorial work with Malone & Company. Here's the ONE Magazine cover I shot of Architect Tom Allisma, who's worked on Roja, Blue, and Bianco. I shot the cover image at the new Parliament Pub in Legacy.

Mutual of Omaha Swimvitational

This past weekend Malone & Company shot the Mutual of Omaha Swimvitational. All the big names were there including six-time gold medalist Michael Phelps. Later this month Omaha will be hosting the Olympic Trials.

Here's a few images I captured during the 4 days of competition.Click on the image below for the gallery. Mike Malone rented the Canon 500mm which was awesome for getting those tight shots.

Baseball

I've been on assignment this week at USC, University Hospital and got a chance to shoot these triplet baseball players. I love their shoes! Of course this image need to be tweaked just a bit, so I had to give it some "old school" magic.

Mike Malone was gracious to let me break in the new monster, Canon 1DS Mark III. At 22MP this camera can handle anything that comes our way.

Lightroom Workshop [Fotoflo]

This past weekend Malone & Company photographers Mike Malone, Geoff Johnson and Andrew Marinkovich hosted a workshop on how we flow here. We call it Fotoflo. Many thanks to all that attended-Shane and Erin Melenbacker, Lara Adkins, Megan Nosbish, Stacie Kinney, Ann Luchsinger, and OPS high school student Marty Lastovica.

Double thanks to our assistant Sam Carter who kept us on track throughout the day.