Aug 22: Night Climb

We spent the evening climbing.

Sunset - Twilight - Dusk - Night.

7:57pm

 8:24pm

 8:54pm

 9:25pm

I shot an additional 700 frames. I'm working on a composite timelapse.

June 21: Bora Bora

Honeymoon in Bora Bora

First, we learned that 'Doritos' in French is the same as 'Doritos' in English. Who would'a thought?

After that mistake, things got much better:

Champagne.

And sunsets.

At the sunset bar.

A bathtub for 2.

Swimming with the fishes.

And petting the 'rays.

Blue skies.

And coco drinks.

On a sunset cruise.

A glass of wine.

Under the stars.

May 4: Over View

Sorting 3696 images from the Green. It's taking a while....
Here are a few that stand out so far. (Straight from camera, for quickness.)

It was no first descent, but it was an exploration.

The crew was mostly from Alta's GMD lodge. Bunch'a skiers in the desert.

There was much laughter...

A bit of hiking...

Some whitewater...

Fun around the fire...

And terrific star gazing.

Much more to come...
Stay tuned.

April 23: Moab Timelapse

These 2000 frames are part of my practice with timelapse.
I experimented with different intervals, rotation speeds, frame rates, etc.
Some segments worked well. Others fell flat.
I'll improve this by the next round.





Moab 4 '10 from Jeremy Koons on Vimeo.

Oct 27: Night Bike

I'm working on another concept: nighttime adventure photos.

Here's an example of how it works:

Take your SLR, crank up the ISO to 3200, open up to f/4, pop the on-camera flash, and time it just right and you'll get an image like this:

Yuck, that's terrible. Blurry, noisy, boring....

Let's try again, changing a few camera settings and finding a better angle. You might get something like this:

Still not good. It just looks like a point and shoot that I used to capture a decent moment. Still boring.

Let's bring out some gear now. I'll use a battery pack and two lights.

Now, I can set the camera to ISO 200, f/8, hit the strobes at the right time and then let the background fill in during a 30s exposure.

This is much better, but it's still not right. The lights didn't balance well enough with the surroundings. The rider is ghosted, and the hill is too dark. And the moment seems missed, as the rider is past the camera.

Let's try again, changing to a 5.6 and decreasing the strobe power.

Then I'll add some star trails from ~700 images taken in Moab, spiraled using a technique I developed in PhotoShop.

There are still some issues to fix with this image, but it gets me closer to the target.