Video of the most recent Photowalking Utah event

Jeremy Hall has updated his blog with his video of the Photowalking Utah event at the Moran Eye Center...check it out! FYI, I'm at 6:30 in the video below:

Photowalking Utah Event #6

Update: 10 March 2008: Jeremy Hall updated his blog with his video of the event...check it out! FYI, I'm at 6:30 in the video below:

Photowalking Utah Event #6, originally uploaded by calanan.

Moran Eye Center
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Photowalking Utah Meetup, Saturday 23 February 2008

Sigma 30mm f/1.4

Part of Photowalking Utah Event #6 - Lab photography at the Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

It is time to announce our sixth Utah Photowalk which will be held on February 23rd at the John A. Moran Eye Center from 9am-1pm. This photowalk will be an indoor event with some opportunity for outside excursions centered around two themes. First off will be a Photoshop tutorial by Ann Torrence who will be presenting a preview of her workshop at the Moab Photo Symposium with the focus on blending, mixing and remixing, a subject uniquely Ann. Ann's presentation will show us how to use the extensive number of tools in Adobe Photoshop dedicated to layer blending modes and the options palette.

This was my second time meeting the great folks in the Photowalking Utah group and I had just as much as I did the first time, when we spent the day learning about studio lighting.

For this event about 50 photographers had full access to the center's retinal research labs for 2 hours after which we convened in the auditorium for Ann's informative Photoshop presentation. While many of the photogs spent their time shooting lab equipment I decided to shoot mostly behind-the-scenes, covering the shooters hard at work on their creations.

Here's a sampling of the 2 hour shoot:









I also set some time aside to take some wide-angle architectural photography of the center itself:





You can view the full photoset over at my Flickr account and view the works of the other photographers at the group's photo collection.

Kelly, on the other side of the ring

Update: 26 Jan 2008: Shooter Jeremy Hall updated his blog with his video of the event...check it out!

Kelly, on the other side of the ring, originally uploaded by calanan.

Model: KellyB.
Taken with Joachim's studio setup

Photowalking Salt Lake City event on studio lighting

Today I met the great folks from the Photowalking Salt Lake City group for an indoor event on using studio lighting. 70+ people attended a local Church where 8 studios were created - with models - so that experts could share their gear and expertise with those of us new to lighting. It was a wonderful event, for not only to being able to try out so many different setups but also meet to many friendly and helpful photographers.

I shot the portrait above through a ringlight, which is something I'd been looking forward to trying out as it produces such a distinctive effect. I can't swing buying the real deal right now but I'm going to try hacking together a ghetto version with a circular lighting fixture with a daylight-balanced florescent bulb.

Here are some other portraits I made with other studio gear:



And here are a few behind-the-scenes shots of the event - the full photoset is over at my Flickr account:







Here's a matched pair from me and Joachim (I'm upper-left in his photo) :