Recent Editorial Work

Just wanted to put up a quick post as I have been busy for the last few days with a couple of assignments for editorial clients. The first was to cover Utah Senator Orrin Hatch for a day as he met with constituents from his home state. The second was at the opposite end of the spectrum when I was asked by a client to take photographs of the classical music group the 5 Browns at their first Utah concert after their father had plead guilty to sexually molested the group's three adult sisters -- when they were children.

Both these assignment were challenging due to the fact that they would need to be shot almost exclusively with available light, which is not usually a problem, but in both these situation it was extremely low-light situations. The kind of light that is so dim that it makes you sweat just thinking about it.

It's hold the camera steady, and nail your exposure so that you don't have to lighten it up in photoshop as all this will do is make the digital noise in the files the size of boulders. And while your at it remember that you have almost no depth of field, so focus will have to be tack sharp.

This is where all that running on the treadmill comes in handy. Hold real still, exhale, and squeeze the shutter, just like a marksman shooting at a target. Being in shape, keeps the heart rate lower and when you are shooting in these types of situations you need every bit of help you can get.

Yes I know that today's digital slr cameras have great high ISO capabilities, but sometimes even high ISO doesn't reach quite high enough and the old school techniques can really help you out getting the final shots.

So here are a few images from these two assignments to let you see how they turned out.

more to come......