I am extremely excited to announce that I will be teaching a CreativeLIVE course on Advanced Lighting for Adventure Photography. This course is sponsored by Red Bull Photography. In this course, we will be diving into the very exciting, and relatively new lighting techniques like Hi-Sync (HS), as well as many other advanced lighting techniques,...
The Spring 2017 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 with recent news, a review of Wacom’s Intuos Pro graphic tablet, an article detailing a recent...
I realize including the words “Color Management” in the title of this blog post will probably limit the number of folks that actually read this but I hope many will get past that and see just how critical this important topic is when working up still images or grading video footage. Color management, which involves a...
The Winter 2017 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 being Back in Action, a review of Sekonic’s L-478DR light meter, an article detailing a...
The Fall 2016 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 my recent travels, jet-lag and surgery, a review of Pro Media Gear’s Elinchrom ELB400 cage and Matthews...
All images kindly provided by Christopher Michels, who was one of many talented photographers in Albert Watson’s workshop. In the image above, Albert is discussing a lighting setup on the second day of the workshop. In August, I took a photography workshop with the legendary Albert Watson at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. If you are a photographer and...
The Summer 2016 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 my recent assignments and non-stop travel, a review of the Nikon D5, an article detailing a...
Always a wealth of information both yourself and Creative Live. I look forward to seeing this course.
HOLY MOLY! I’ve been binge-watching your CreativeLIVE sessions since they ran live and now in re-broadcast. I think my world has just changed. I’m a street shooter who’s been living in the Smoky Mountains and I’ve been looking for a way to leverage where I live with my photography. It’s home to some great outdoor activities (kayaking, hiking, cycling, etc.) – Thank you an exceptional class and the inspiration. The timing for this was too perfect.
Michael
If you were to purchase a set up to cover adventure sports and portraits what would you recommend.
2 each ELB 1200’s?
or 1 ea. ELB 400 and a 1200?
Which 1 or 2 light modifiers.. Octa or deep octa or 1 ea.?
…and of course 1 ea. or 2 ea. high performance reflector?
…also I would get the kit on Adorama which includes the pro.. action.. and hi synch heads.
I shoot with D800e and D4 and Hasselblad 5DX with Phase One Back 100mp.
Thank you Michael for all your help.
Dave
Dave –
For a minimum kit, I’d go with one each of the ELB 400 and ELB 1200. Note that for the Hasselblad and leaf shutters you will need the Action heads. No need for the Pro head, the HS and the Action heads are the only ones I use. The high performance reflector is great for sports, not so much for portraits. The Deep Octa is nice as well. You can also rent a few different ones and see which you like. I have tons of light modifiers and use a wide variety of them. Hope this helps.