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Mad River Mountain Fall Ad

Ryan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:31:18 +0000

As some of you already know from a few posts I made on twitter, I helped Mad River Mountain shoot an Ad for a new Sports Magazine in Columbus Ohio. We shot the ad in the OSU Football Stadium and we didn’t release any details until the ad was release. Well, the ad dropped at the beginning of October and I am just now getting around to posting this. Sorry for the delay. Please excuse the gradient at the bottom of the photo. With the settings we need for print, it doesn’t look great on digital.

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Diving at Circleville Twin Quarries

Ryan — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:45:13 +0000

This past weekend I decided it had been too long since I was scuba diving last. Plus I really need to get back on finishing my PADI Dive Master Training. I headed down to Circleville Twin Quarries to meet up with Underwater Connection. I spent Saturday and Sunday diving with a class and on my own with another diver. Total I out in 8 dives. While I was preparing for my third dive Sunday I had my camera sitting on the bench ready to get a few shots of the quarry and it’s many wrecks. Another fellow diver approved me and asked if I had ever gone over to the east side of the quarry. I have always assumed that both sides were pretty much the same thing, rocks piled up on the slope. Boy was I wrong, the east side of the quarry is like a fish tank. Full of life and color. Below are some shots I took while diving my last 2 dives of the weekend. Hope you enjoy them and please let me know what you think.

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Ever want to make a commercial using equipment you already have?

Ryan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:36:54 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp8t27oT_ww

Have you ever wanted to make a commercial or some kind of video but don’t want to buy all the fancy equipment you think it takes to make one? Ever seen that Levi’s ad with they guy walking across America wearing Levi’s jeans? It’s actually pretty easy to make these ads and you probably won’t have to spend a dime on new equipment.

This video shows how a few guys did it in 14 days with just one camera, a tripod, a protractor, a string and some simple math.

After a few thousand miles and about the same number of photos, here is their final product. Enjoy the videos, and get there and shot something.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzRKEv6cHuk

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Grants first dive.

Ryan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:04:43 +0000

My little buddy loves the water already. Although we have had him in the pool and up at the lake already, today was his first underwater visit. Here is a video a shot of this venture. I hope to get some photos of him in the next week or so. When I do take those photos, I will video the entire shoot and post that here too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hmm1xH1358

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Mad River Mountain Swamp Stomp

Ryan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:06:35 +0000

We packed up the gear on Saturday and headed to Mad River Mountain for their annual Swamp Stomp. For those of you that are not sure, the Swamp Stomp is an event where they dig a pit at the bottom of one of the slopes and fill it with water.

This years pit was 150 ft long and about 12 ft wide. It was so cool to see these guys (and girls) come tearing down the slope and skip across the water. A lot of them made it all the way, some of them fell short. One thing is for sure, it was a blast. While out there, Greg decided to test out how well his D300 is sealed to the elements. Looks as if Nikon did a good job because his camera just had to be dried off. It was back up and working just fine later that day. I wish I could say the same thing for Greg. He got a really bad sun burn. I got some sun too, but mine just gave me a reddish face with a funny hat tan line.

Here are a few more pictured from the event. As you can see even the ones who didn’t make it made for great photos.

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Big Air Snow Day

Ryan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:24:42 +0000

This video features 2917 still frames of skiers and snowboarders doing their thing around the slopes of Mad River Mountain. We stitched all the shots together and put ‘em to a great tune by The Highway Beautiful -- A Grown Up Childs Song, check them out on itunes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4mKtdr2Kd8

This video is a quick example (low resolution to save time) of how many frames are taken on a photo shoot just to get maybe 50-100 images for the client. Let me know what you think.

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Mad River Mountain Big Air Event

Ryan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:29:08 +0000

On January 30th, as part of Winterfest Weekend, Mad River Mountain will be hosting a Big Air Event in the Capital Park at 6:00PM. Skiers and Riders alike will show off their talent to send themselves hurtling through the air in an effort to win the first place prize! Ryan Andreas Photography will be there covering the event from start to finish.

We will be focusing on the BIG AIR competition, utilizing three camera, three strobes, and two shooters. We’ve been planning this shoot for a week, tossing ideas around on how to make this shoot better than the last. Our biggest question, will the strobes work more than once. It is going to be cold, very cold, 15 degree cold. We are asking a lot of gear to work in weather that we are not sure we want to be in. But, we want the shot, and we’ll do anything to get it.

Here is what we are planning: Ryan will be shooting a D3, Greg will be shooting a D300, and we will have a D200 setup as a remote camera. We will be sharing 3 strobes, one placed on the right of the jump, one placed on the left of the jump, and one placed with the D200. Using Pocket Wizards, we will be able to control a strobe and/or the remote camera.

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iPhone Photos

Ryan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:51:18 +0000

Chase Jarvis says “The Best Camera is one that is with you” and I completely agree. In the age where digital has made taking a picture just another button, where did the art go? I can remember not too long ago,as a photographer, you were very specific of what you took photos of. Film and development are expensive. You wanted to make sure the shot was what you were looking for and that your camera settings were correct. There was no screen to look at to see if you set it correctly. I have talked before about the time I spent with my grandpa developing pictures and learning the basics of photography, and never once did he go out and “just hope” he got the shot. Yes, even with film photography there was post production work that was done and adjustments you could make to correct for highlights and lowlights but photography was photography.

As photographers, we have become complacent with our skills. With cameras that shoot 11 frames/sec and can shoot in almost no light at 25,600 ISO we just assume we’ll get the shot and rely too much on the camera. “Spay and Pray” is one of the terms given to what I am talking about. Well….. we’re right to a point. My Nikon D3 can help me avoid making a mistake or missing a shot on a photo shoot every time, but it can’t tell me what to shoot. It can’t frame the image for me. It also does me absolutely NO good when I’m out with my wife for dinner or shopping or just taking a walk, if I don’t have it with me. This is where the whole “Best Camera” idea comes in. Todays camera phones can take great quality photos and they are almost always with you. In fact, if your like a lot of people, it’s probably glued to your face most of the day. You may even be reading this blog on one. I have my iPhone with me all the time and now I have one more reason to carry it. I started taking a ton a photos with it and posting them to this blog and Facebook. Not really for anyone but me, I do this mainly to keep my “vision” so to speak. It helps me record ideas for future shots, special moments and just random junk. Will I use my iPhone for a customer shoot…. probably not, but I would use it to scout ideas for one as I said earlier.

Technology is a great thing, it has opened a lot of doors for photographers. We just need to remember to keep it as an extension to our skills not a crutch.

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Circleville Pumpkin Show

Ryan — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:11:19 +0000

Took a drive down to Circleville to see what the Pumpkin Show had to offer this year. Obviously there was plenty of good food and just about anything you could think of was made from pumpkin. I read where there is somewhere in the realm of 23,000 pumpkin pies sold during the 4 day event.The first pumpkin show was held back in 1903. It is billed as “The Greatest FREE Show on Earth”. Here are a few shots I took while down there on Saturday.

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Lynd’s Fruit Farm

Ryan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:59:25 +0000

Photography is not all work. Yesterday Shelly and I drove out to Lynd’s Fruit Farm to pick some apples and maybe take a hay ride with Gary, Kari and little Maddy. It was perfect weather for our outing. The temperature was in the 70′s and the sun was shining. It was so nice to get out and enjoy the weather. Here are a few pictures I took while we were there.

They did do hayrides. They used an old John Deere to pull the wagon. Here are a few pictures. I love old tractors.

I think the photo of Maddy sums it up for how everyone felt by the end of our apple picking.

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