An image from a series of portraits shot for the Irish Coast Guard. This was a challenging shoot. The tide was rushing out and the wind was trying to knock over my lighting gear. But we got it done with the help and patience of these guys… and I love this image.
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An image from a shoot with Clara Peters, Irish figure skater. Clara began skating when she was 7 years old, and moved to the US to train at the age of 17. She has been there ever since. Like all sports, skating requires serious dedication and it’s beginning to pay off as this year she is ranked 29th at Worlds. She is about to turn 21 and her aim now, as it has been since she was very little, is to become Ireland’s first ice skating competitor in a Winter Olympics – that of Sochi 2014. Let’s wish her some luck.
Some still shots I also did when I filmed the mini-documentary of Simon Hutchinson which can be seen in the earlier post. Also a behind the scenes image. Simon is now travelling through the United States. Check out his website and facebook sites for more info. The race started in London on the 18th February last and won’t end until sometime in July. As of today, the 1st June 2012, Simon is currently cycling across the United States. It’s been a tough old slog at times with sickness in India that required hospitalisation, and a road traffic accident in Perth, Australia. BUT he’s still going and is making good headway. He’s totally on his own out there with no support other than the goodwill…
A few images from a shoot earlier this week. My mother grew upon a farm. I even studied veterinary medicine, and for a while farming was in my blood. That was in the 1980’s and farming has changed so much since then, and so I feel privileged to have known the great characters and a way of farming life that has largely fallen away into history. Farmers have always interested me, from the big corporate style of farming to the smaller farmer. They live in a curious world where the old comes toegther with the new. They also form the backbone to the agri-food sector in Ireland contributing €24 billion to the national economy. So who are these farmers? This is what my ongoing…
Image from last week’s shoot with Paul Cooper of Howth Coast Guard
This is Rhona ‘Crow Jane’ Flynn. She’s a skater and head coach with Cork City Firebirds. They are a flat-track roller derby league in Cork, Ireland. They train 4-5 days a week, about half on-skate, half off-skate. So yes they’re serious about the sport. In fact very serious. Crow Jane also skated on the Irish national team at the Roller Derby World Cup in Toronto in December 2011. Check out a recent story on them in the Irish Times about how they fared here. Roller Derby is a full-contact team sport, played on quad roller skates, on an oval track. Since the birth of the modern sport ten years ago, there have been over a thousand teams formed worldwide. In Ireland, there are teams…
Want to get fit? Dominic’s your man! Below are some images from a recent shoot with Dominic. He’s a busy man. An early shoot and I had less than 50 minutes to get the imagery and move locations and set up lights again. Phew! If you feel like getting fit Dominic’s website is here
There would be no escape. I was in a lonely field in Longford photographing a crack shot. If the images displeased him…well…..:)He’s Derek Burnett, an Irish sports shooter who specialises in the trap. A veteran of three Olympic games, his best ever finish being in Athens 2004, when he came in 9th overall.London 2012 now beckons. This is likely to be Derek’s last Olympics so definitely fingers crossed for him. He’s got great sense of humour too. Oh how he laughed when I looked at him expectantly, and told him I was looking for a hill.Hills in Longford! Ha! Well we did find one eventually. A little lump of a hill with a lonely old tree. In fact the area we were standing on…
Images below from a recent sportrait. The first image of Sue running towards me and the second image of Sue standing was shot at 1/1000th sec. She is lit with one Elinchrom Ranger RX Speed AS 1100W power pack , an S light & the Maxi Lite reflector. Tom Bol, Photographer has been getting amazing sync speeds using his Nikon D300s. Check out his blog here. As high as 1/8000th sec, but as a Canon user, I wanted to see what the 7d could do. Using the Canon 7d and the clever hypersync technology from pocketwizard I was able to shoot way above the normal sync speed of 1/25oth. I was operating at about the 5.7.to 6.1 power setting ( max is 7.5) Apparently…