Creativity On The Fly
By mauromedia | March 30, 2008
About a week ago I called my good friend and fellow photographer Mark Woolcott and asked him if he would be interested in setting up shoot focused on mountain bikes and their riders. Mark agreed and even made a few calls lining up an awesome rider and bike combo. The rider - Gavin Hayes and the bike - A Genuine Spot Bike with the new Carbon Drive System.
So this went from a normal everyday biking shoot to a shoot with an extremely accomplished pro rider and a custom bike with some new cutting edge technology…game on! Initially, the images I’d visualized in my head included full frame images of the rider and bike cranking down the trail…but after seeing the bike my thoughts immediately changed. This technology is way to cool…it needed to be highlighted in the shoot. How do you do that? You spend a lot of time running behind the bike firing the camera down around your knees.
We only shot for an hour or two but I think we came away with some cool images that highlight both Gavin and the new technology.
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- Spot Bikes - Carbon Drive System
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- Gavin and Spot Bikes with the Carbon Drive System
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- Gavin and the Spot Bikes "Carbon Drive System"
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- Gavin Gonzalez busting down the trail on a Spot bike with the new "Carbon Drive System"
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March Personal Work
By mauromedia | March 21, 2008
Right after I finished the product shoot I took a day to paddle up and down the river looking for gators and other wildlife. Since we are moving into the spring of the year the gators were getting active which provided plenty of opportunities. We probably saw 30-40 gators on the 2-3 mile stretch of the river that we paddled. This image was shot hand held with my Mark III with 70-200 2.8 using…are you ready for this…manual focus. Since these shots are just for my library/stock I can afford to experiment and work on skills like manual focus.
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March Product Shoot
By mauromedia | March 21, 2008
Just finished a 2 1/2 day product shoot on the Hillsborough River just north of Tampa, Florida. What a cool place to shoot in March. Coming from snowy and cold Denver, Colorado it was awesome to run around in 80 plus degree weather.
I want to give a special shout out to Brett Avery for being our guide, location scout, behind the scenes photographer and kayaker model!
Dirk was up to his usual tactics….get to the shoot location, find the most unusual camera location, mount the wide shot camera and let it roll. More times than not this camera gives us a really creative establishing shot.
Behind the scenes shot by John Burgess. Thanks for all of your hard work John could not have done it without you.
We are in post production at the moment give us a week or so and we will post one of the completed videos here on the blog. Cheers
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Canon G9 Cameracast - Bosque del Apache, New Mexico
By mauromedia | February 19, 2008
A photographic highlight video from Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico. The second podcast we have shot using the Canon G9 to shoot the video portion of of our program. www.youtube.com/mauromedia
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Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2008
By mauromedia | February 13, 2008
Mauromedia’s top 5 picks from the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2008. Our host Brian Brawdy visits each booth and gives us a brief look at these cool new products for 2008. www.youtube.com/mauromedia
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Bosque del Apache, New Mexico
By mauromedia | February 3, 2008
Great morning shoot at Bosque del Apache. There were plenty of birds and just before dawn I found a roadside pond that was full of sandhills and snow geese. You will always see plenty of birds at the refuge, the trick is finding them in just the right light with an uncluttered background. Read the rest of this entry »
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Snow Geese In Flight
By mauromedia | February 2, 2008
I am spending a couple of days in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico. Bosque is a great place to capture many birds on film most notably the Snow Geese and Sandhill Cranes. Here, tens of thousands of birds–including sandhill cranes, snow geese, and many kinds of ducks–gather each autumn and stay through the winter. Read the rest of this entry »
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Backup Your Images
By mauromedia | January 17, 2008
While producing images for the gallery show at the Chico Paper Company in Chico, California I realized that I have not been doing a very good job backing up my images. Consequently, I have spent the past few days going through the hard drives and consolidating images for backup. There are so many ways to accomplish this task…it requires a bit of thought, a couple of hard drives, some blank DVD’s and most importantly time. As a matter practice I always return from a day of shooting and immediately download all of the raw images to my desktop. I then spend an hour or two using Adobe Bridge and evaluate each image for sharpness and composition. The images that make this initial cut are then put onto an external hard rive and mirrored on an identical external hard drive. This is where I usually stop and get the compact flash cards ready for the next shoot. I completely format each card and place cards back into the camera bodies so that I am ready the next time the camera comes out of the bag. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mauro’s Moments - Composition
By mauromedia | January 12, 2008
Michael gives us a quick “how to” lesson on composition while photographing alligators in Florida.…http://www.youtube.com/mauromedia
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Gallery Show in Chico, California
By mauromedia | January 11, 2008
The Chico Paper Company Fine Art Gallery in Chico, CA is currently showing a selection of my large (30″ X 45″) bald eagle canvas giclee prints. The show is running in conjunction with the 9th Annual Snow Goose Festival. So if you are going to the festival and have some free time swing by the gallery and take a look.
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