New Pocket Wizards

Just got the new Pocket Wizards as a beta. I will be testing them on shoots starting tomorrow and when the beta goes public I will let you know how they work out.

Web Site Back Up and Running

Gallagher.photoreflect.com is back up and running. It will be updated daily and running strong from here on out.

Tack

For my final in Advanced Principles of Photography, I decided to shoot old western tack rooms.

Tack rooms are where you keep all of the saddles and bridles, ect. These rooms are sometimes very old and quite dirty. The exact opposite of english tack rooms that are all very clean and neat and new. I wanted to show the beauty of the western tack room, not the grunge and filth. I doing this, as you see I have captured the true beauty of the western tack room.

More Tweety Got Back

Here are two more Images for Tweetygotback.com. These images are different thant the ones I put up before but just as good. They are both of motocross riders that I know. These would make perfect backgrounds for almost everything.

Tweety Got Back

Here are three themes for Tweetygotback.com. The old Phone was made in 1919 and had a new cord put on it in the 80's. The army stuff belonged to my father who was a Special Forces Green Beret Medic in Vietnam. I didn't shoot these just for Tweety, but I was looking for images for them and saw these and thought, these would make good Twitter back grounds.

Editorial Portrait

Here is a shot done for Editorial Portraiture. It is a total of 7 shots and is still a work in progress. I hope to have it done at the end of the day but who knows if that will really happen. It is the week before finals so you know how that goes.

New Sports contrat

Today Three Lazy J Photos and I signed a contract with Bennett High School and Middle School to take all of their sports pictures for the year. This includes take action shots during games of every student that they have on the teams. Here is a preview of what we will be shooting.

A shoot the other day of Louie Tanczer and Dillian Whinelan. Two pro riders that were dicing it up on a private track.

Bad Day at the Rodeo

Justin Darling had a bad day at the rodeo. Lets just say he can tie calf's better than he can ride broncs.

More field testing

Ok so I am sitting in the airport waiting to fly to Tulsa OK. I am going to bee using the SB-900 and I believe it will preform admirably so I will let you know how it does when I get back.

Great News

Great News for everybody who shoots Nikon. I finally bought a SB-900 and was able to field test it this past weekend and it all works. When you hook up the pocket wizard to it like the SB-800 it all works it took a few minutes to get it to work but it all works. Here are a few shots from what i did.

One small flaw.

So while shooting the other day i found a small but fatal flaw in how to make a newer Nikon (after D1x) sync with a pocket wizard faster than 250th of a sec. If you are using any strobe that is powered with a power box and you plug you wizard in to it the box slows it back down to 250th of a sec. So a way around this is to shoot without the bax and plug the wizard into the light and the light into the wall.

How to make it all work.

So this is for all of you out there who are shooting Nikon. As you all know you can not fire your strobe faster than 250th of a second with a pocket wizard. Well I have. You use a SB-800 and a pocket wizard. You can hook up your wizard to the flash using a PC to Mini headphone with the headphone jack being in the port labeled camera. Once that is hooked up you turn your flash to manual and set the power to its lowest setting. Now in your camera go into the settings menu and go to flash and bracketing. From there set your flash sync speed to the 250 high speed setting. Now attach your flash to your camera and you can now shoot as fast as you want to.

Latest Shoots

Hey this is my first blog but I have a lot to say.

My name is Frank, but my friends call me Doctor, long story.

I shoot extreme sports, Motocross, Skate Boarding, Rodeo, Hockey, Skying, and Snow Boarding.

I use a Nikon D700 with vertical grip. I use the 18-200mm, 24-120mm, 24-70mm, 70-200mm, 120-300mm, 50mm, 85mm, and a 120mm lenses.

I use alien bee's strobes and fire them with pocket wizards. And yes I shoot faster than 250th of a sec. and still have a a full frame. Yes I know everyone says its impossible but I will go into that in a later blog.

I have been shooting since I was 13 and have been published in multiple national magazines. I am currently going to the Art Institute of Colorado. Once I graduate i plane to shoot by myself or Sports Illustrated.

Here is the link to my website gallagher.photoreflect.com