First Place in Art Show Again!</h1> <article> <h1>First Place in Art Show Again!</h1> <p>Gage Thompson — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:50:37 +0000</p> <p>So this is the second year I have entered into the American Fork Art Show. This is also the second year I placed first in the professional division. Booya! The best part is that both of the photos I have entered are of my buddy Hribar back in MA. Both of them I wouldn’t even imagine would place in a local art show in Utah Valley let alone get first. If you are wondering what other image of Hribar won last year it was the smoking one which you can view <a href="http://www.gagethompson.com/blog/archives/172">HERE</a> or for a better quality viewing click <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gagethompson/3550965068/">HERE.</a> So hopefully I can keep up the winning streak here in American Fork. Thanks for reading! GT</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Awesome photo curtsy of Kari (the pretty lady in the reflecting glass)</p> </article> <article> <h1>Thanksgiving Point Fireworks</h1> <p>Gage Thompson — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:38:57 +0000</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: left;">So here in Utah we celebrated the 4th of July on the 3rd of July because the 4th fell on a Sunday. So we saw fireworks a day earlier then most everyone else. My girlfriend Kari and I decided to go the the free show at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. As you can see its pretty popular. Also as you can see by the photos I went there more to just hang out and enjoy the fireworks than to make photos. I figure the guy that lives on the 10th floor across from the Eiffel Tower has me beat hands down when it comes to amazing firework shots. So anyhow here are some photos I took while we were there waiting, watching and leaving.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Photo of Kari and me amongst the waves of people.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Not to shabby for a MySpace photo.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Cute shot of Kari in her extremely blindingly bright blanket.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Another shot of Kari. As you can see it was so cold she lost her hands to frost bite </p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">The firework shot of the day.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">You guys have already seen this one in the previous post. Great shot for being taken the way it was.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">I love this shot! Cranked my ISO to 4,000 and used the car light for my lighting.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Thanks for reading! GT</p> </article> <article> <h1>Don’t Delete Just Yet</h1> <p>Gage Thompson — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:37:19 +0000</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>This blog post is all about not getting to trigger happy with that delete button on the back of you camera. This photograph was taken the other day after Kari and I went to watch fireworks at Thanksgiving Point. The other photos from this event will be up tomorrow when I go through them all.</p> <p>Anyways back on subject. Don’t discard any images on the spot, unless its blurry or poor composition. Why? Because you could get a cool shot like this one. What was technically wrong with this shot? It was pretty darn underexposed. I didn’t pop the flash bright enough to properly illuminate Kari. But to my defense we were rushing to the car to beat traffic home (which we failed at anyways). I just happend to have my camera around my neck and flash mounted. I forgot I left my flash on manual mode to the previous setting of to underexposed to light this photograph properly. So this photo was taken from the hip while carrying a tripod and numerous other object while walking backwards. If I wasn’t in such a rush I would have more than likely deleted this photo without a second thought because it was so underexposed.</p> <p>But lucky for me I didn’t, and because I shot it in raw I was able to pull all this detail out. I didn’t even know there was smoke from the fireworks in the photo until I brightened it up. And because it was so underexposed I introduced a lot of noise to the image when brightening it. But I like the look of the noise in this black and white photo. A keeper for sure!</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><br /> </p> <p style="text-align: center;">Here is a detail shot where you can see the noise and Kari’s pretty face.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Kennecott Mine</h1> <p>Gage Thompson — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:47:10 +0000</p> <p style="text-align: left;">We went to Kennecott for my fathers birthday a couple day back. For those of you who are not familiar with Kennecott it is one of the worlds largest mines. They mine primarily for copper but get a little silver and gold as well. I was really excited because I have always seen it off in the distance but never took the time to go check it out. There were lots of really cool facts about the mine. Like the trucks that move the ore are two stories tall and the mine is 3/4 miles deep by 2.5 miles across. The mine can be seen from SPACE! Anyhow even though we were going during mid day when the light is pretty nasty I figured I would sport my camera anyways. So here are some photos from our trip.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">My dad super stoked getting in the car.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">When you get to the mine there is a visitors center and a look out spot over the mine. Sadly you cant go down in the mine.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">JR scoping the two story trucks that look like small toys from a distance.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">One of the trucks tires. Cost around $15,000 and last 9 months.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Looking across. I really like how this photo is layered. Some foreground, mine, green hills, and blue sky.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">My favorite shot of the mine.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">This is where all the trucks converge and dump there loads down the crusher. The crusher smashes the huge ore and places it on a conveyor belt that runs 5 miles to get processed down to copper.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">After checking out Kennecott we went drove up a random road to see where it went.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">After driving forever we decided to look on my iPhone to see where it went. It ended up in Tooele…we turned back.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Judy in the back doing some sort of work.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">JR waiting at Bangerter hwy. What a thug!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Self-Portrait “Wallpaper”</h1> <p>Gage Thompson — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:49:22 +0000</p> <p style="text-align: left;">So I came across this wallpaper in an old house and I just had to do a portrait in-front of it. My lovely girlfriend Kari helped me out with the shooting part. I loved the wallpaper but I also wanted you to really focus on me, so I shot it wide open at 2.8 causing the wallpaper behind me to be blurred. As for the lighting its all window light, how can you beat that!? A simple portrait + interesting background = cool photo. I’m now planning on getting a couple of different wallpapers like this for future photos because I liked it so much.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Tight crop on my eye. Got to love the 50mm 1.4</p> <p style="text-align: left;">Trigger girl: Kari Larsen</p> <p>Strobist: Window light</p> <p>Camera info: Nikon D700 | 50mm ƒ/1.4 | ƒ/2.8 | 1/160th | ISO 200</p> </article> <article> <h1>Self-Portrait “Riding Down”</h1> <p>Gage Thompson — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 05:01:03 +0000</p> <p>Riding Down, by far was the best part of the job. Right up next to riding the Gondola down after a long day. There are very few things that come close to the feeling of riding down a mountain on a board. Its a pretty awesome experience to say the least.</p> <p>Now your probably wondering how I got this photo. Well simple really, you see SharpShooters has photographers all over the mountain. So before we all went up I told Joseph that on my way down I wanted him to snap a couple photos of me along the trees doing some turns. Then I just cropped the image to my liking and there you have it. This is by far one of my favorite images from the “Work on the Mountain” series. I really like the contrast between the whites, blacks and reds. And how could you not love the white aviator sunglasses.</p> <p></p> <p style="text-align: left;"> <p style="text-align: left;">Trigger man: Joseph</p> <p>Strobist: Snowy overcast day.</p> <p>Camera info: Nikon D80 | 70mm-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6 | ƒ/8 | 1/1600th | ISO 400.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Joseph Wallride</h1> <p>Gage Thompson — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:59:17 +0000</p> <p>A few weeks ago I was up in Salt Lake photographing a couple of homes. While I was up there I figured I would hit up my old buddy Joseph from SharpShooters. One of the places we shredded was a park with some Jersey barriers. Where Joseph showed me how to wallride them. We didn’t get a shot of me doing a wallride but I got some shots of him doing a couple. All in all it was a good skate day.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Finally locked in the 50-50</p> <p></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Goofy random photo of me (Photo: Joseph)</p> </article> <article> <h1>Self-Portrait “Poser”</h1> <p>Gage Thompson — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:10:45 +0000</p> <p></p> <p style="text-align: left;">1..2..Pose!, This is my eight photo in my series of work on the mountain. With this photo I wanted to through down a classic SharpShooter pose, and whats more classic than the scorpion pose. Yeah cheesy I know, but its a big hit with the costumers. Its a pretty versatile pose as well. You see right now I’m doing the tough guy pose with my hands down in front. But if I was a chick I would bring my hands right below my chin (insert awww here). Then if you want to get really complicated you through someone on top of your board laying down. Needless to say it’s near impossible, but its pretty sweet when you can pull it off.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: left;">Trigger man: Craig</p> <p>Strobist: Built in flash</p> <p>Camera info: Nikon D80 | 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 | ƒ/5.6 | 1/250th.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Self-Portrait: On the Mountain</h1> <p>Gage Thompson — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:38:30 +0000</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: left;">Trigger man: Myself</p> <p>Strobist: Built in flash +1.0</p> <p>Camera info: Nikon D80 | 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 | ƒ/10 | 1/200th.</p> <p>On the top, here is my seventh photo in my series of work on the mountain. Here is a perfect look into how I spend most my overcast snowy days on top of the mountain. This day in particular was a super slow day as you can see by no one in the background. I thought this photo turned out pretty darn for being one of those hand held my space photos.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Volcom Wild in the Park 2010</h1> <p>Gage Thompson — Tue, 25 May 2010 02:23:49 +0000</p> <p>A couple Saturdays ago I cruised down to Greenwood skatepark in AF to photograph Volcoms Wild in the Park. This is its third year running and every year they kick off there North American tour in AF in all places. The whole idea of the tour is to provide an awesome free competition to any and all skateboarders. There all competing for the chance at invites to this years $25,000 WITP championships in Arizona. Its really awesome to watch especially because all my buds skate in it every year. Some of which include Justin Long, Chandler Seipert, and Brodie Penrod. Brodie Penrod is actually reigning champion 3 years running. Last year he placed 1st in the Arizona championships in the pro-am category. And I’m sure he will do it again this year.</p> <p>Here are a couple gif’s I got shot with my D700 at 8fps. As you can tell by the first clip its hard to compose when your not looking threw the eye piece. Instead I went with the technique of holding it 6” of the ground and being able to get out of the way quick when needed. As for the still photos from the competition. They are actually posted up on SLUG magazines website which you can view exclusively <a href="http://www.slugmag.com/photos/229/Volcoms-Wild-In-the-Parks-American-Fork-Skatepark-050810.html">[ here. ]</a></p> <p></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Tyson with a bs 360</p> <p></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Ryan with a bs tail to shuv out (he landed better solid later on)</p> <p></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Chandler with a fs big spin</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Brodie with a bs kick to tail to shuv out.</p> </article> </main></body></html>