Pulling Pictures

So after signing on with Aurora I have been swamped sifting through images for my first couple of submissions, needless to say lots of computer time. Signing on with them has also motivated me to get back into shape. Yes, I have been mountain biking and maintaining some kind of fitness, but I mean really good shape. Years back I sat in on a round table talk and the topic being outdoor adventure photography, one thing has always stuck in my mind. The true adventure photographer has to be in just as good if not better shape then the athletes they are shooting, many times in order to shoot the best pics you have to stay ahead of the pack, so so true. That said it's time again to get my ass out and get into really good shape..........

Aurora Photos

Today is an exciting day, we are proud to announce that we have just signed on  with Aurora Photos, www.auroraphotos.com.

From Aurora:

Exotic, visually dynamic, and diverse describe Aurora’s photographic archive. For more than 14 years Aurora has represented some of the best editorial photography in the world. In the past two years Aurora has added commercial and advertising photography to the mix. The aim of the company is to grow balancing editorial and commercial images. The emphasis will always centered on quality imagery keeping with Aurora’s strengths:

GEOGRAPHY • CULTURES • TRAVEL • OUTDOOR ADVENTURE
OUTDOOR LIFESTYLE • WILDLIFE • PHOTOJOURNALISM

Aurora licenses and distributes images to clients around the world. In North America Aurora also represents several of Europe's premier photography agencies, Bilderberg Archiv der Fotografen from Germany, ASA from Spain, Pixil.com, a Swiss group of photographers, Cosmos, Hemis and Sunset, Paris based agencies and by 2008 three other European agencies. Our clients range from magazines such as National Geographic, TIME, Newsweek, Fortune, Smithsonian, GEO, Stern and many other comparable publications worldwide, to corporate clients like Apple Computer, LL Bean, Volkswagen and advertising agencies like JWT, McCann Erickson and Ogilvy & Mather.

In July of 2005 the company launched Aurora’s Outdoor Collection, bringing together the highest quality photography in the outdoor realm. In its first year it has become the premier outdoor adventure and lifestyle collection with more than 100 of the finest outdoor photographers contributing on a regular basis real and released images.
 

Fall is coming

We always get pretty excited when the wind changes and the cooler temps start to head our way. Fall has always been one of my favorite times of year, and so far this fall is shaping up to be one of our busiest yet. Lots going on, hence the lack of posts, on another note we are starting a  pretty big project this week which I'm really excited about, details will be coming soon. So get out and enjoy fall, soak up the colors and fresh air.........

5D Mark II from Canon

For a long long time I've been a huge fan of Canon even though I've had to send in my Mark III many times for repairs due to a much to early release, love it now though...... Well I just got wind of the release of their new 5d Mark II, over kill maybe? or meeting the needs of the professional? Regardless we'll be adding a couple to the mix soon. 21 mega pixels will be great for our large commercial clients, but isn't it a little over kill? For the longest time I've shot with my Mark II (8.2 pixels) and have had images on billboards, calendars, magazine double trucks , you name it and have never had a problem with file size being to small, so I guess my question is why such a huge jump?????? Think of all the hard drives we'll have to get in order to store files, not to mention soon the huge mega pixels will be out resing our fancy glass...... Hats off Canon you did it, I guess I can now toss my thousands out $$$$$ of medium format gear in the trash........ However I'm still looking forward to the new rig.... 

P.S. my wife just informed me new cameras means no new super tricked out travel van I've been wanting........

Zion

Just spent a couple days in and around Zion National Park, we were staying at the Zion Mountain Resort just outside of the park located just before the East entrance, one word, peaceful.......  If you've never been to Zion you gotta put it on the list, the scenes are out of this word. We go up there every fall to catch the changing of the leaves and to shoot, this trip was all business and we'll be back in a couple of weeks to enjoy the area once we have a bit more time and can start breathing again.......

X-Mas recharged

We've been gearing up for the X-Mas season and this year we wanted to offer something a little different in terms of holiday pictures. Trish and I posing down.......

Women of Climbing 2009

The 2009 Women of Climbing Calendar is out and thought I'd share the spread we shot for it this year.... 

Another Building

Today was building #2 and it went much better then the day before. It seems shooting buildings and landscapes is pretty much the only time I get to play with filters anymore since now we have the tools of photoshop....... Now a bit of bum news, Photoshelter is no longer offering stock sales trough their site, only digital storage, strike one for the photographers world, and also Corbis is cutting back, no longer offering assignments and cutting 160 jobs..... Depressing.......

Shooting Buildings

This past winter I shot a bunch of buildings for a engineering firm, and it was one of the hardest jobs I have ever taken. Buildings you'd think would be easy to shoot, they don't move, you never have to tell them what to do, and they always stay in the same spot, easy right? wrong. Thing is in Vegas there is a power line/stop light/strip mall every two feet making life a little harder. For the project I choose to shoot everything pre dawn and post sunset, trying to create a bit more of a feel to the environment, most of the time it worked out great. Today I shot a building that was a total pain in the ass, traffic everywhere, no room to get enough distance between me and the building, I can go on, but I won't. Needless to say I think I'll be shooting this building during the day dodging traffic.......

4 SALE

Selling one of my Mark II's, hasn't had really any use over the past couple of years, shoot me an email and make me an offer, has about 50,000 on the shutter and works great.

jared@tybphotography.com

New Portfolio Books

Over the past couple of months we have been pretty busy putting together our new and cool portfolio books that show case our work. Printed portfolios are almost an animal of the past, but I have to say looking at images that have been printed out rather then online makes a huge difference...... One another note we'll have some pretty exciting news soon, as we continue to explore our photography and its avenues........

Get Outside

The weather is really starting to cool off in the Southwest and it's a perfect time to get outside and enjoy some kick ass weather. Thought I'd share a couple shameless plugs. First up is "Mountain Biking, A Cerca Country Guide", I was the photographer on the book and it covers some amazing trails surrounding the Vegas area, www.stephenspress.com/adventures.html or maybe your into climbing and might be interested in "Red Rock Canyon, A Climbing Guide" www.mountaineersbooks.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=645 another shameless plug and a book I co-authored a couple years back. So get out and enjoy the desert in the fall.............

CCQ Natalie Gulbis

Just received a copy of CCQ with the spread we shot of Natalie Gulbis, cool stuff. We are really pleased with how everything turned out, the client was happy, Natalie was great, and I had a blast shooting this project.......

Feeling Minnesota

Just returned home from a week long trip to Minnesota, relaxed, ate, and took a couple pics. Rigged my camera to the top of my dads little sailboat and played with pops for a couple hours out on the open water, p.o.v. style. The coming weeks are going to be packed with some cool shoots and I'm ready to jump back into the action, recharged.........