While shooting a series of golf tip videos at a Lake Hills Country Club with Renzi Lee. One of the thirty to forty antelope that live on and near the course decided to get a closer look at what we were doing. The shot was overexposed so I lost a lot of detail in the white fur, but I thought the were still fun images.
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This is a bit cheesy, but I’m wiped.
Today, I went to Big Timber to shoot a video that I am making about high school rodeo. It was a muddy, but fun time. All of the people that I met were really friendly and pleasure to hang around with. As usual I mostly shot video, but I did manage to get in a few stills. I really wanted to get a great portrait with one of the kids covered in mud, so I attempted an on the fly portrait with the last competitor of the rodeo. Kylee was nice enough to let me snap a few shots, even after I had tortured her with a video interview.
It was another rainy day, so I spent my alotted photography time devoted to trying to figure out why my flashes were not firing. Apparently, the batteries on both my transmitter and the flashes were dying. Any way here is a pic from when I was testing my flash and another one from a sunnier day that I didn’t post.
This morning I woke up late for work because the power had gone out at our house. Apparently, snow, ice, and wind had done a number on our electrical lines. As I raced out of the house, I quickly shot these because I had a feeling that the snow would melt and I would spend the rest of the day playing catch up. I was right on both accounts. They aren’t great photos, but they are proof that if you plant your vegetable garden before Memorial Day weekend in Montana, you are probably going to be making two trips to your favorite garden center that year. I learned my lesson the first year I was here. Now, I don’t plant anything until early June.
Today, I shot a video of an outsider/graffiti artist, Sean Thomas, who is going to be featured at a local festival here in Billings. I think the video is going to turn out great, but when I was trying to photograph him, my remote trigger wasn’t popping my flash, so I finally gave up and just threw the flash on my camera. I became so fixated that my flash was not working that I lost focus on other things like composition. I wanted to give the image an edgy/grungy/street look. I’m not sure if I accomplished it with this edit.
I think I have posted a picture of this before but the light was probably not as impressive last time.
Today, I received a couple of new light stands and umbrellas that I had ordered, but I didn’t know what to shoot with them tonight. So, I just took a silly pictures of my hand in the Tickle Monster glove.
I also got to ride in this beast of a Jeep. We were doing a story on an off-roading enthusiast, Brent Burton, who has been selected to compete in an elite off road challenge put on by four wheeler magazine. In this picture shot by the Gazette’s Bob Zellar, we are actually going over some easy terrain. He took us over some massive rocks where I thought we might flip over.