Just thought I’d post an update from the south Pacific. I am back on the north shore shooting surfing yet again – yes, I know it is a rough life. As luck would have it I showed up just in time to shoot the 2010 Billabong Pipeline Masters surfing competition the last few days along...
As one of the photographers who has covered the Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race the last three years the organizers asked me to be a judge for their photo competition, which is sponsored by National Geographic Traveller (UK), and the winner gets an all expenses paid trip to shoot the race in February of 2011. The...
The Fall 2010 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 discussing this issue as the 10th Anniversary issue of the Newsletter, an equipment review...
It seems like I have been having a lot of discussions about the photo industry these days with other photographers, some of whom are top notch big name photographers whose photos we see all the time. Instead of writing a blog post detailing all of those discussions I thought I’d point you to a phenomenal...
I just learned that famed surfer Andy Irons died of Dengue Fever this morning in a hotel room in Dallas, Texas on his way back from Puerto Rico. He was 32. As someone who has had several close calls and by all accounts should be dead already (read my behind the scenes article “In God’s...
Above: Michael Clark presenting in the Manfrotto booth for Elinchrom at Photo Plus. Image Copyright © Sara Stathas I just got back from Photo Plus in New york City. It is one of the biggest photo Expo’s in North America and all the big manufacturers are there showing off their wares. In addition, there are quite...
If you are in New York next weekend, the biggest photography expo in North America is happening and I have been invited by Manfrotto Distribution to present some of my work and do a demo with some of the photo gear they distribute. Specifically, I will be doing a demo using Elinchrom lighting gear and...
[…] Nikon wanted images of action sports where the sport was obviously far away so they could show off the incredible zoom capabilities of this camera. Naturally surfing was a perfect fit. Hence, a few weeks after I got the call for this assignment I headed out to Hawaii and shot with two amazing surfers, Kalani Chapman and Jesse-Merle Jones, at Pipeline, Off the Wall and Rocky Point. The P500 was easily able to keep up with the surfers but I had to use the camera on a tripod just to keep them in the frame since the lens zooms out so far it was hard to keep things steady. Think of using an 800mm lens on a DSLR – it would be the same issue of trying to keep the subject in the viewfinder. The image below of Jesse Merle-Jones at Off the Wall was shot on the first day I arrived during the 2010 Pipeline Masters Competition. The competition was happening at Pipeline just up the beach and lot of surfers, Jesse included, were taking advantage of the swell. The waves were in the five to seven foot range that day, nothing enormous but still plenty big for the surfers to catch some serious air. You can see more images of the Pipeline Masters Competition on my blog here. […]