A busy week, so apologies for how old this is (a whole 10 days). Josh Curran, Chris Borchert and I went out to make our cover and a big splashy image about UBC’s Formula SAE team. It ran in The Ubyssey last week, one of culture’s few and far between covers, I was pretty happy with it.
We used four lights, two crossing over the team, one overhead with a beauty dish, and one behind the team, lighting behind the garage and creating the latticework pattern. For inside, we moved a light to highlight the sign as well. Original pictures and cover design below!
COVER
INSIDE
The guys wanted a Tebow shot for themselves so we did that too.
A Little behind the scenes action.
The issue
Ever gotten the runaround?
That was my experience with UBC facilities/security last week. Last year, we decided to take Jeremy McElroy’s photo from the top of Gage. A resoundingly easy process, I called up UBC SHHS and they let me onto the roof three days later.
This year, I decided the clock tower would make a nice location. Turns out UBC is a little more tight wadded when it comes to building access. After several emails and phone calls over a couple of days, I finally figured out who to call (did you know UBC separates it’s facilities by coloured zones? Me neither). A couple more phone calls later and I found out that not only did UBC insist on sending UBC security along for the ride, but that for the 45 minutes the photo was going to take, they were going to ask a whopping $45/hour, four hour minimum.
So that went out the window, and we made this awesome cover instead. Here’s some outtakes and the setup, cover image is the vertical on the right. Behind the scenes photo courtesy Hayley Kandt! A big thanks to Chris Borchert and Pamela Haaf as well for their work on this.
So it’s been a while, but we finally published these photos from the late fall. I went down to Seattle to shoot a weekend of sailing with UBC’s Collegiate Sailing Team. You can catch the article on the Ubyssey website. Here’s a few frames from the weekend.
As you probably know I’m the Art Director at the Ubyssey, which means I design things in addition to taking care of photography and such. The front cover is a fun beast and my responsibility. Sometimes you’ve got an idea, sometimes you don’t and it must happen. This week, what with editors out of commission, we ran out of news that wasn’t AMS elections. So we ran a sports article on synchronized swimming.
I’ve never, in my life, shot synchronized swimming.
But the newspaper must come out and I’m not one to shirk a challenge. I gathered up lights and called the ever-talented Alexandra Downing to come and work on the shoot (photos by the both of us, the second one is all Allie). I think it turned out fairly well.
How to shoot an overhead photo. Have you ever noticed how springy a diving board is? It’s definitely got more bounce when you have a $4000 rig in your hands.
So I let some film sit in my bag for a few years and as it turned out, it doesn’t like that. So excuse the funky colours (and photography from first year). On another note, black and white photos from wandering around my hometown and Point Grey.
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