Eric Hamilton – Celebrity / DJ / Nightlife Photographer

Archive for February, 2009

IgniteSLC Thursday March 26th

I’ve been invited to speak at Ignite Salt Lake 2 next month. I was hoping to be at Winter Music Conference, but I haven’t made my travel plans yet, so it looks like I’ll be in town for this. The title of my talk will be “How to do ANYTHING YOU WANT and Get Paid for it: Inside the Wheels of Steel Photo Book Project.” The last Ignite event was a blast. I’m looking forward to it.

PhotoCamp Utah

PhotoCamp Utah is a one day photographic learning extravaganza! The local photographer community in Utah has been growing, sharing in the fun and business of photography. We will be coming together for a one day event, full of great presentations and workshops to help you get more out of your hobby or business.

My topic for PhotoCamp Utah is Low Light Event and Portrait Photography:

An in-depth, hands-on workshop demonstrating low light portrait techniques. Learn how to balance flash to ambient light, run and gun strobist techniques, etc… We’ll look at a variety of strategies for making the most of limited light to create dramatic photographs.

Today I tried to shoot a business conference tethered – without any cables. It didn’t work because the wifi network had some sort of firewall filtering the signal, but I came home and tested it, and it works great here. Next time I do a photo shoot in my house, I’ll use it for realtime previews. Here’s a screen capture of the Eye-Fi install process and a quick demo. Enjoy!

P.S. I think I paid $59 for this at Best Buy.

I’ve been pulling together illustrations for an ebook I was hired to write. I’m going into a lot more detail, and demonstrating some more advanced techniques in the book. I’ll post here when it’s available for download. Here are some motion capture samples:

There are several ways to capture motion in still photography. The first, and probably most popular, is to freeze the motion so you can see the detail, as I did to capture the motion of Dani’s dress while she was spinning around. Use fast shutter speeds for this technique. 1/400th and faster works nicely. These were shot at 1/800th and 1/500th, respectively.

Another common technique is to intentionally show the motion blur, as I did in this shot of DJ Craze at 1/3 second:

Take a look at the full set of Dani in Motion.