I have finally found some free time to get my website launched!
For a full bio, please see my About Page. In addition however, I wanted to provide a glimpse of my typical day filming and photographing fire & arson scenes, and filming for the military.
For fire scenes, I am usually out of the house at 4:30AM! If I am fortunate, I only have a short local drive, but usually it is a 1-2 hour trip to many of the fire scenes. Here is a photo…
Large fire investigations, like the one in the photo above, can go on for a couple of days. For scenes that large I will shoot 800 plus photo’s, and over 4 hours of video footage.
I use a Nikon D80 with a couple of SB800 Speedlights for all my stills, and a Sony PMW-EX1 with the Sony wide angle lens for all my video. For lighting up the pitch black rooms, I use an LED daylight balanced LitePanels MiniPlus Kit from Litepanels.com.
My military shoots are usually out in Arizona or Utah, out in the middle of nowhere.
The military will setup these mockups of villages made out of steel shipping containers, like in this photo.
Here I am doing some close up shots…
Then the 3-4 days of fun begins. We will be stationed on a hill top like this one…
and I get to film stuff like this…
This exercise was a four day event, and I focused on showing off the capabilities of full size radio controlled Jeep Cherokee’s and how well the aircraft could hit them with A-10 30mm rounds, and F-16 bomb drops.
So, there is my typical film and photo life. A lot of fun, and challenging. Please check out my other film work here on the site, as I will be adding more in the coming weeks.
