So the photos I took for Nike have made the rounds. I found them posted on a couple of blogs around the net, pretty much all Tebow. Have a look around, I google’d Tebow Boom Box and came up with just these couple of links:
http://www.solecollector.com/niketraining/?p=2513
http://www.shoespimps.com/shoes/tim-tebow%E2%80%99s-florida-rivalry-boom-box.html
http://www.topflightkix.com/index.php/tim-tebow-florida-rivalry-boom-box.html
And of course a link to my original post here
Here’s a couple quick photos from the eclipse last night, more in the Flash slideshow link. The photos were taken with my Canon 5D Mk II, Canon 70-200mm 2.8 IS L, a Canon 1.4x TC and a tripod. I did some tethered shooting to try to get the focus sharp but even with that it was hard with the bright Denver lights. Enjoy.
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edit: So I’d like to put a little more work in here because I know a lot of people love to seek out advice on photography instead of just look at pretty photos. If you’d like to read more about these photos click through to here.
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Flash Gallery Link for a Slideshow
(edit: I’m having a few issues with Chrome loading the page but IE and Firefox are doing just fine)
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So after a long wait the Cue the Epic night Facebook page has gone live, I know, that’s what the title said. I’ve been telling all the random people in the bars for months that their photos can be seen on a billboard in Times Square and will eventually be on Facebook. Well, today is the day: it can be found here: http://apps.facebook.com/epicpics/ and you can vote on and submit your own Epic Pics. Right now 8 of the Top 10 were taken by yours truly and I’m pretty excited about that. I’m sure that will change very quickly as people start submitting their own but I’m happy about it.
Go, upload, vote, have fun.
8 of 10 isn't bad, sadly they stretched most of them weird, they were sized for the billboard and stretched for the website.
So Paul and Kelly needed some photos taken to celebrate their engagement. They picked out a place down by the Platte River in Denver. It was a great location for photos, cityscapes, railroad tracks, the river, bridges, some green grass still, lots of areas to play with. Paul is in to photography himself and lately has been enjoying vintage cameras. Because of this I decided to play with some colorization on a few of the photos.
Black and White with Denver in the Background
So I got a gig this week, kinda last minute, real quick, real cool. The gig was this, go to the Nike Ambassador’s house Tuesday morning, hop in a Lincoln Towncar complete with a driver, leather seats and bottled water. Ride out to the Broncos training facility and take some photos of Ryan Clady and Tim Tebow receiving their Nike Boom Boxes. Pretty sweet. The Nike BOOM Box contains shoes, gloves, a shirt, belt and a card written for that specific box and college. They are very limited, less than 100 made in total and each one is individually numbered and personalized with the person’s alma matter. What a fun shoot and what a cool gift from Nike.
Tebow receiving his Nike Boom Box
Tebow Holding up his Gator Gloves
Clady Holding up his Boom Box
So since flying to NYC to get some photos of some photos wasn’t really in the cards financially I put the call out to reddit. I have been a redditor for three years (according to my profile, I can’t believe it’s been that long) and was a lurker even before that. Reddit is an amazing online community, people submit stories, photos, comics, for people to review, comment on and vote on.
I’ve seen people request things from other redditors, a couch to sleep on, a restaurant recommendation, relationship advice, so given my limited resources I decided to try it. I posted a call out to r/photography and r/nyc asking if any redditors could go get some video or photos of the billboard and the response was amazing. I had no less than a dozen people offer to help me out. Jclemon was the first to respond to me with photos and marvelously told me he’d have video posted for me soon.
I’m so pumped, thank you all of reddit for being an awesome online community.
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So I found a webcam for Times Square. After watching the webcam for about 15 minutes I saw my photos on a billboard. The billboard appears to be on a 5-6 minute loop and it is by the Morgan Stanley corner, 1585 Broadway. The photos aren’t my most artistic shots but they are the fun, wacky, party photos that the client wanted. I’m just excited that my photos are on a billboard in Times Square and I have proof, hopefully better proof to come.
You’ll have to do some photo comparisons, like I said, hopefully I can get an NYC person to go take better photos or video.
Upper left, check out that "The Most Epic Night Ever" Billboard
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So this is actually the second piece of news that I have this week but I still don’t have any proof of the first.
FotoMoto, my printer for all the online prints, has decided to feature my photo from Mallory and Doug’s engagement photo session as their photo of the day. Go to http://www.fotomoto.com/ and check it out for Nov 18th. I have a screenshot cause I don’t know how far they go back.
Featured Photo of 11-18-2010 on Fotomoto.com
The second piece of news is that my photos that I took this last weekend for Jose Cuervo have been picked by the marketing company and ad agency to be featured on Facebook.com and on a billboard in Times Square in NYC. I was hoping to keep this news under wraps until the photos ended up on facebook or I had proof of the Times Square billboard but with the FotoMoto news I decided I should just do one bragging post. Hopefully I’ll have actual evidence of the other ones soon.
Whoop whoop!!!
Marguerite was a referral to me from Ryan Brandle over at http://www.brandledesign.com She needed a headshot with a white background for her site that is currently under development. This one was a new one by me and given that I do nearly all available light photography or single flash (Speedlite) photography I knew this would be a challenge. An exciting challenge though.
Marguerite photoshoot results.
I ended up with a few reflections on the cheeks and on the glasses but the diffusion of the umbrellas went a long way to helping this. If you’d like to read more about getting the shot please continue after the break.
A small little post before a larger post to be filed soon. Fritts Photography is now an LLC. Fritts Photography LLC. I think it’s exciting, I may be the only one.