I am honored and humbled to see my picture of Colorado wildfire fighter Nick Collard gracing the cover of American Photo Magazine’s “2009 Images of the Year” issue — and to be named the contest’s Grand Prize Winner. The photo is also featured as a 2-page spread as the Extreme category winner. American Photo received over 4,000 submissions for this year’s contest. You can view the feature on American Photo Magazine’s website here.
My shot of skier Willie Volckhausen jumping off a slope in Aspen ran in the January 11 issue of Sports Illustrated. The ad for MTNaccess Club reached one million subscribers in the Northeast region.
The spring 2010 Cabela’s fly-fishing catalog just launched with my cover image, as well as numerous inside images. This was a fun project as we shot with my good friend Mike Shook on the beautiful Roaring Fork River at sunrise. Mike is an expert fly-fishing guide here in the Aspen valley and the author of six fly-fishing guidebooks, available on his website. A big thank-you to Jason Brazda from Cabela’s for his art direction on location.
I was excited to work with SmartWool this fall for their 2010 campaign featuring their latest garments (I’ve never seen models so excited about their clothing during a shoot — this stuff was an instant hit). Our first setup in Aspen was an early morning ski conditioning class; the models really shined in this high-energy workout scene and we got some great images. We finished off with a beautiful country road scene in Old Snowmass. Garett Mariano of SmartWool brought his great art direction and enthusiasm to the project; I am excited to be working with him again this winter in Aspen for their upcoming skiing campaign.
Southwest Airlines’ Spirit Magazine features my images of outdoor-survival expert Logan Darby in their January issue. Logan is featured in the article “The Happiest Man on Earth (and from the fun afternoon I spent shooting with him, I’d have to agree with the title). My 1st Assistant Draper and I shot the opening spread in Colorado’s spectacular Black Canyon of the Gunnison at sunset.
We had an exciting four-day shoot in Colorado this summer for Stetson’s latest national ad campaign, and I’m excited to be able to share the images. The scenes ranged from a hero shot of a Stetson cologne bottle set against the majestic Maroon Bells to lifestyle scenes at a rural fire station, a working ranch, and Aspen’s famed Belly Up nightclub. Many thanks to agency partners Gregg Bergan, Jerry Stafford and Eric Espinoza of Pure Brand Communications in Denver and everyone from Stetson.
The first snowflakes have fallen on the slopes of Aspen and Snowmass, and I’m excited to see several of my images published in national magazines this month. Snowmass is running an ad campaign in Travel & Leisure that I shot last season — thank you to Traci Schalow of Promotional Concepts for art-directing the shoot. Also, the November issue of National Geographic Adventure Magazine features two of my photos, including a 2-page spread of snowboarder Tyler Wilcox launching into the stunning Cirque at Snowmass. And Elevation Outdoors has my cover image of Pat Sewell cliff jumping in Aspen for their Oct/Nov issue.
I had a wonderful opportunity to blog this week for Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider website, where I shared the powerful stories of my journey to Ethiopia. The blog has generated a lot of heartfelt responses. Click here to read the post.
I will be giving a Canon Explorers of Light presentation and live photography workshop at Unique Photo in Fairfield, New Jersey on November 22. Working with a sports model, I will demonstrate a real-world portraiture assignment using the new Canon EOS 7D and Canon 580EX II Speedlites. My presentation will be from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. For more information or to sign up, click here.
At the PhotoPlus Expo in NYC last week I had the honor of speaking on behalf of Adobe to help announce the new beta release of Photoshop Lightroom 3. The talk garnered the attention of the New York Times, which has posted a writeup here.
I also spoke on behalf of Canon at their expo stage, showing a range of my adventure and philanthropic photography. I was honored to have Photoshop guru Scott Kelby in the audience, and he listed my talk as one of the show highlights, under “Awesome Demos” here.
On another note, the Canon enthusiast website LensFlare35 just posted an online interview with me, where I discuss my favorite 10 images, among other things. The link is here.
I have also put together an outline for my Lightroom Workflow with some simple guidelines that I use for importing, editing, processing and exporting my images in Lightroom. I will post more detailed articles focusing on specific sections of Lightroom in the future.
Click here to download the PDF version of my Lightroom Workflow.
Many people have asked me which settings I use for white balance, color space, video mode and custom functions, etc. Here is a list of the settings that I ‘customize’ on my Canon EOS 5D Mark II — they are simply settings that I find helpful and are in no way the absolute-best way. I hope that you find them useful!
Click here to download the PDF version of my custom functions.
I’m excited to be at the Photo Plus Expo in New York shortly for a great lineup of lectures and events. Here is my current schedule:
Thursday, October 22
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Canon Speedlite and EOS 7D Demo at Canon booth.
1-2 p.m. Getting the most from your Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Speedlites in the field. Location: Unique Photo Booth
3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Seminar; “Shooting Stock: Creating Exceptional Work And Making Your Ideas Profitable.” Location: TC4 Auditorium.
Friday, October 23
10:45 – 11:30 a.m. Canon mainstage presentation on shooting multimedia with the 5D Mark II camera. Location: Canon booth.
1 – 2:30 p.m. Canon Speedlite and EOS 7D Demo at Canon Booth.
3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Seminar; “Real World Lighting, Real Results. Using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 for Exceptional Travel and Outdoor Photography.” Location: FC9 Auditorium.
Saturday, October 24
10:45 a.m. Getting the most from your Canon EOS 7D and Speedlites in the field. Location: Unique Photo Booth
I hope to see you there!
The cover and inside spread of the latest Cabela’s Women’s Fall 2009 Catalog features my images. We shot Kam on the beautiful Strang Ranch in my hometown of Carbondale.
