Speedlinks, 10/3/2008
First things first: I really need to do a sig photo for the speedlinks. I'm thinkin' tastily lit macro shot of two sausage links sizzling on the griddle. Got any other ideas? Comment 'em to me below.
Until then, your latest batch of artless speedlinks, after the jump:
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• Robert Benson blogs about an insane man named Mark J. Rebilas, who will PW-remote his cameras just about anywhere. Holy crap, would you strap your DSLR to one of those airborne BMX bikes? Company body -- yeah, maybe. Personal body -- uh, no.
• Elinchrom has debuted a new 400WS battery flash: The Ranger Quanta. (Specs here, first Photokina video grope here.)
• If you haven't seen the Rangefinder Magazine article on small-flash corporate shooter David Tejada, you can now read it via PDF.
• Would you like to see dramatic portraiture up close and personal? Are you willing to work for free (grub included) to do it? Michael Grecco is looking for an intern.
• Martin Prihoda just finished his first gazillion watt-second lighting workshop, so you have to figure there was a YouTube video coming...
Until then, your latest batch of artless speedlinks, after the jump:
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• Robert Benson blogs about an insane man named Mark J. Rebilas, who will PW-remote his cameras just about anywhere. Holy crap, would you strap your DSLR to one of those airborne BMX bikes? Company body -- yeah, maybe. Personal body -- uh, no.
• Elinchrom has debuted a new 400WS battery flash: The Ranger Quanta. (Specs here, first Photokina video grope here.)
• If you haven't seen the Rangefinder Magazine article on small-flash corporate shooter David Tejada, you can now read it via PDF.
• Would you like to see dramatic portraiture up close and personal? Are you willing to work for free (grub included) to do it? Michael Grecco is looking for an intern.
• Martin Prihoda just finished his first gazillion watt-second lighting workshop, so you have to figure there was a YouTube video coming...
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55 Comments:
I always pick up some new reading after these posts. I love the remotes mounted in crazy places(can't wait to have someone try something like this with a body on the handlebars) and was drooling over Mr. Prihoda's lighting equipment walkthrough midway through his video. Thanks again, DH.
Thanks, David for the links. As for the logo... I dunno, I think something aerospacey (speed) or...travel-related? Maybe like a bullet train. It's fast and it's a link between two points.
A shot of you in an old-school newsman's hat hunched over a manual typewriter madly pounding away. Cigar chomping.
I'm liking the grill idea, with some way to incorporate them going really, really fast.
SPEED-links.
Speedlinks sig idea:
A gorgeous model lit by 10 speedlights being held in the hands of a bunch of guys sat in a convertible sportscar driving past at speed.
Easy is boring :D
Speedlinks sig idea:
Gorgeous model lit by 10 speedlights being held by a bunch of guys in a convertible sportscar speeding past.
Easy is boring :D
If they're truly 'speed' links, then the sausages should be cooking in a microwave. :)
Hi David,
what about dragging the shutter and dropping the ambient by 1.3 on a rear-curtain flash shot of a chain being swung through the air?
"Me speak Strobist" :-)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1155/631951999_eafd8abe96_m.jpg
speedlinks? hehehe worth a try its fast (speed) and has links (chain links on the bike) :D
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1155/631951999_eafd8abe96_m.jpg
speedlinks? hehehe this one has speed because of the motion and links because of the chain of the bike :D
Some great shots from Mark Rebilas - lots of cool ideas for sports shooters. I also noticed he's even got a flash taped down to the boat with a TTL cord. Throw that in one of those wakeboard flash housings, put the camera in a scuba housing, and you could keep shooting as the boat flips!
As for trashing cameras, isn't this why we pay insurance premiums? For less than $100, I was able to get a fairly inclusive commercial policy for my admittedly more tame wakeboarding and mountain biking shots.
how about a spaghetti of (technical) wires?
102?
If it's "Speedlinks", you might want to put them in a microwave. Not a terribly esthetic setting, but that's some quick sausage, baby!
Maybe under a bunch of strobes?
hmm...speedlinks....how about a section of chain link fence being dragged behind a speeding car. Macro shot with flash to freeze action, but enough ambient to really make those sparks pop! Please be sure to wear safety glasses :)
what about a cool tungsten balanced cto gelled shot of some big meaty steel chain spinning around you head! flash and blur style (to really hammer home the"speed")
How 'bout stickin' a LAN/Ethernet cable from one smokin' sausage link to the other, thus creating a "web link"?
Anything covered in oil with the proper highlights will look like it is hot an sizzling.
I'm sure that you know both oil and how to create the specular highlights on the sausages.
How 'bout a souped up golf cart as a signature? Flames, a blower, racing slicks...
Photography is just seems to be so much of a sausage fest already. :)
Why not some speedlights sizzling on the griddle with the sausage?
Speed Link photo? The Oscar Meyer wiener mobile, of course!!
For the SIG shot, how about a bunch of sausage links with wheels attached crossing a finish line. Motion blur behind them possibly illustrating the use of 2nd curtain shutter. Mix ambient and strobe so that you can also do a post about how it was done.
GQ
sausage links with flames painted on them. it works for my tricked out chevy cavalier...
It's probably too gimicky, but remember how with a couple of carrot slices, two toothpicks and a piece of celery you could make a car. Something similar with the sausages could be fun and then pulling the camera to create pseudo motion blur.
Speedlink Logo? - sounds like a great photo contest opportunity to me. First prize is you use the photo every week...
how about encasing some small speedlights into sausage casing, and making it look like they're being produced like sausage links coming out of a grinder in some way. I'm sure there are some PS gurus out there that could make it happen.
If you really want some speedy links, you should get a shot of the sausage races at Miller Park, where the Brewers play. Every game they have people don costumes as different types of sausages and race around the ballpark - no, I'm not kidding - and it's one of the most-beloved traditions of the fans.
Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Race
About Michael Grecco's intern opportunity,
"one of the most successful photographers in the world" (his quote) wants a Free assistant? Come on now! Pay up.
What about an image of two SB800s facing each other, flashing, with the word "speedlinks" in between? Something with the same feel as your Compact Flourescent Bulb assignment...
Anon 12:24-
You read my mind...
David,
Since it's your site, and you may be the model, how about a nice shot of you in a caveman loincloth (think missing link, in this case) and maybe you could be, um, running to cover the speed portion of the speedlinks? Just a thought!
So.... I see a low angle shot of a dragster with smoking tires filling 1/2 of the frame as the car exits camera right. Sort of like this but with a little more car in the shot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photographertothecars/11122923/
or
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinreach/1063506314/
or
http://www.nhra.com/content/nd_preview.asp?articleid=33149&zoneid=129'
Maybe it should actually be a similar shot but with the Strobist-mobile!! I see a very dramatic night shot with plenty of off-camera lighting bring up the smoke and the car. Lots of colored light in the background. ...not sure how much smoke you can generate with a Kia though. I totally see a video on the shoot too!
where'd the watch post go?
Surely a Lynx, speeding towards camera left, with a speedlight providing the catchlight in the speeding cat's eyes?
One word ... Lenka lol
A model with an oxy-acetylene torch and some link sausage shot outside, tungsten setting, gelled speedlights on model and links. Model should be implied nude - OK, that probably won't fly for your site.....especially if it's you.
Or you could run a "speedlink" contest every month, top 3 photos get used plus one from you, one for each of the following 4 weeks.
Hi,
my speed links idea:
put box of hot links next to "Speed" Dvd box, and make it shine with your light :)
Regards
Why not another challenge for the speedlink image?
I like the sausage links idea, but I think it needs a bit more...
I think the sausage should be photographed at high speed impacting someone in the side of the face. Just like the last guy
in this video...
-Ben
leavittphoto.com
speedlink? that would be it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixlux/1322911490/in/set-72157600569987704/
A golf course shot, with a really fast golf cart, like the one in "Who's Your Caddy?".
So - do we have ourselves a "Speedlinks" challenge, or what?
a pair of links being cooked speedily by a ridiculous amount of speed lights encircling them.
Here is my Speed link suggestion. It was taken using 25 seconds exposure with available light mostly. Only one a useless gelled vivitar aimed poorly on the left of the upper bridge.
It was taken while shooting for the time in a bottle assingment but wasn't submited to the contest. Thanks HB for making us busy :-)
suggested a spaghetti of technial wires before. now uploaded an example in my flickr-tread.
see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14538377@N06/
Here's a compromise. Lenka on a speeding motorcycle on the highway hold a sausage link ...
david, not sure if you even care, but B&H seems to be having a ton of rebates on san disk extreme III cards (like an 8 gig for $24 after rebates).
here is the link:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?ci=0&shs=sandisk+extereme&sb=ps&pn=1&sq=desc&InitialSearch=yes&O=jsp%2Fproductlist.jsp&A=search&Q=*&bhs=t&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=submit
I was thinking some nice macro shots of old anchor chain links... maybe something smaller.
Speedlinks Idea: Laptop on black, long exposure, flash lit, with various colors of light streaking out of the center. Possibly way to easy, but just a thought.
OR: Light beam cutting a pathway through a cornfield at night. Not sure how common cornfields are in Seattle though...
David,
I like where you are going with the sausage idea. How about sausage links flying out of the machine that stuffs the meat into the casing? Of course you will have to drag the shutter to illustrate the speed in which the links are produced.
Tom
Thanks for posting the links, David.
A minor correction:
"would you strap your DSLR to one of those airborne BMX bikes? "
BMX = Bicycle MotoCross. But he actually attached it to a MX (motocross) motorcycle. They fly a lot higher and farther, and hit with a lot more impact. Note that he broke a superclamp on the first try.
I might have to take my oldest body and try this. If it crashes, I guess I'll have to get a D700...:-D
Speedlinks picture idea:
Panning on a turtle.
Hi Dave,
All the best from U.K. where we don't HAVE links....we have sausages! How about a quick visual pun, two kids, toddler age or thereabout, talking animatedly through a 'two can and a bit of string' phone? You could add, either with flash (we don't have STROBES, either) or photoshop, a large flash of, (coloured), light
coming from 'receiver' can.
Oh well, perhaps not!
Boy, can't you get CF cards cheap! I recently 'lost' a 1gHz extreme 3 card, and it cost £40 to replace, that's about $80!!!
All the best,
Doug.
:-
Aloha David,
Speedlink ideas:
- Sausage links in that circular cloud while breaking sound barrier (as in fighter jet/Ironman)
- Jet powered sausage link at salt flats
- Speedboat sausage link with rooster tail
- Sausage link funny car/dragster burning rubber at starting gate
always a great article
ohh myy! ive been wanting to do P.O.V. BMX shots with it taped to my chest/the bike for FOREVER! its sick to see someone using his pro body to do that... im extremely jealous and inspired haha
From the peanut gallery:
I second the Lynx - running cat in full stride, or perhaps the take-off - or the last running jump into the pounce... although I would have the Lynx running from camera left to CR... perhaps centered in the middle of oblong keyboard button as the column masthead (perhaps TNR font - inner bevel, maybe drop shadow). Lynx could also be cool as a negative image.
Alternate thought: border the whole kit and kaboodle with an open-chain (the type we raise and lower rolls of backdrops/seamless with) - with a slight motion-blur clockwise. Also thought of basically the same, but using a spool of 35mm film in place of the chain - same, with slight motion blur (but no pun for the chain links).
Thank you for Strobist - and everyone - for so much shared information.
Scott Nilsson, Atlanta - PPA/NPPA
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