Kyle: your photography

topic posted Tue, August 21, 2007 - 12:10 PM by  The Fixer ::
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I was going to send you a personal message but I thought this would be of wider interest to the west coast vibe tribe.

What is your photographic background (are you professional?), and how do you set up photographs at crazy festivals like Shambhala? Do you just haul your camera around and take photos everywhere - or do you have a space where you do your work? What kind of camera and technique do you use?

Your photos look so polished, it is hard to believe you are taking them in the Shambhala dust clouds.

I am starting to enjoy photography more, and would appreciate any kind of tips for the rough and tumble of festival photography.

J
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The Fixer ::
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  • Re: Kyle: your photography

    Thu, August 23, 2007 - 9:03 AM

    I'm just an amateur at photography. I'd love to take some courses, especially some photoshop courses.

    For photos at crazy places, it started out simple with just at DSLR and f1.4 lens for low light, shot at 1600 ISO. Very graining and fuzzy but cool - in some ways my favorite style , but the desire to have clear sharp photos became stronger and I added a ST-E2 flash sync to my camera to help with autofocus in low light, then I started adding flashes - I've now got 5 flashes that I use on radio control. I generally place them around the stage - sometimes they fire sometimes they don't. I often use a flash on the camera and carry another one in my hand to get funkier lighting.

    For shambhala I hauled the camera gear around all over the place - yep.

  • Re: Kyle: your photography

    Thu, October 4, 2007 - 9:17 AM
    some people are born dripping with originality, talent and vision...
    they have their own path and walk it with obsession.
    kyle is a great spirit

    Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. - Albert Einstein

    dont let anything or anyone get in your way kyle. keep doin your thing exactly the way you been doin it.

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