Last fall, as the Elinchrom Skyport Plus HS was announced, I set up a BMX shoot for Elinchrom USA here in Santa Fe, New Mexico to show in a real world scenario how the Elinchrom ELB 400 and the new HS (hi-Sync) flash heads along with the Skyport Plus HS transmitter could be used to...
Rob Haggart has had a significant influence on my career. While he was the photo editor at Outside Magazine, he once told me, “You adventure sports guys couldn’t light your way out of a paper bag.” And he was right. A lot has changed since that lunch in 2002, but he nailed it and he...
Digitaltrends.com, one of the biggest tech websites on the internet, just posted an interview with yours truly this past weekend. The editors took some liberties with a selacious title and even reworked a few of my quotes to give it some “adventure dude” speak but otherwise this interview has some useful insight. The title of the...
My recent project Hypersync Surfing went live on Elinchrom.com last week. For this project Elinchrom and PocketWizard were kind enough to ship out quite a bit of gear, which allowed me to experiment more with Hypersync techniques and make the above image a reality. The above image was lit from 500-feet away, which is a...
Updated September 5, 2017: Some of the links I originally posted in this blog have disappeared so I removed one link and revised a few others. I get on average three to six emails a week asking basically the same question: “I want to be a pro photographer and travel the world shooting adventurous assignments. How...
Manfrotto recently posted an interview I did with them on the School of Xcellence website. I have worked with Manfrotto for quite some time now and in this interview they asked some very interesting questions about my career, a few specific images, and about my workshops and upcoming projects. You can find the interview via the...
The Summer 2014 issue of the Michael Clark Photography Newsletter is now available for download. If you’d like to sign up for the Newsletter just drop me an email and I’ll add you to the mailing list. This issue includes an editorial about why there was no Spring 2014 Newsletter, a review of the SmallHD DP4-EVF external...
