Signal Element Blog

Tools of the trade

Ellis — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:53:37 +0000

Meigan Canfield and I have been collaborating with Eddie Lau of The Summit on a project documenting local chefs’ personal professional tools and the personalities they reflect. Here are the final three that we just shot today.

Melissa Perello

Ravi Kapur

Laurence Jossel

Thank you all collaborators, sponsors, co-conspirators, and chefs that made today possible.

Ravi Kapur

Stay tuned for the rest of the collection, photographed earlier this year.

Burlesque Test!

Ellis — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:02:13 +0000

Burlesque Test! Try saying that 10 times fast.

Had a wonderful test shoot at LUX Studios last weekend. Here are quick teasers from the shoot.

Retouching to follow. I’m trying to decide if I want to work in full 80MP. Yep, these were shot with the new Phase One IQ180 and 645DF camera (big ups to Chia Wen for bringing it out).

Here’s a 100% close up crop of one of the images. Again, since these aren’t retouched yet, I’m being kind as to not have full face crops. The back captures details that aren’t typically noticed in real life at a really high resolution. Crazy.

Special thanks to everyone that helped me out on the shoot (in name and job order):

Models:

Saylor Rae

Sweet Sasha

Photo Crew:

Styling:

Tough Mudder head cam

Ellis — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:19:58 +0000

Tough Mudder held at Squaw. (www.toughmudder.com)

Head cam was a Contour ROAM that we switched off between members of our team.

To skip to obstacles, check info in the Youtube page:

Sunrise Timelapse!

Ellis — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:55:11 +0000

I was drinking hot chocolate while watching this. Ah…happy.

(Be sure to watch in HD)

Yosemite

Ellis — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:30:14 +0000

Mmmm…drinking hot chocolate while watching this happen was epic.

Originally, I got upset when I saw the fog rolling in when we were hiking up. But when we ascended above the fog line and saw this, I was grinning ear to ear.

Full comp of Superman Max

Ellis — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:44:28 +0000

I’ve been sitting on this for a while. Some of you have seen it, some of you haven’t.

Soooo…here it is: the full sequence of Superman Max.

12mm (DX cropped) @ ISO 400, 1/1000, f/6.3 (9 frames)

Interview with Matt Lieto

Ellis — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:01:14 +0000

I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Kickstand Media and Martin Sundberg Photography on the following video. I utilized one of my lesser-known special powers as an audio tech on the interview portion of the project. Enjoy!

Too many photos, not enough sharing

Ellis — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:57:42 +0000

Was in Joshua Tree the other week.

Which one do you prefer? Color or B&W?

Bay Bridge Eastern Span

Ellis — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:43:02 +0000

Thanks to Peter for making the tour possible!

Bay Bridge Eastern Span Construction

Ah…Tuolumne

Ellis — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:12:38 +0000

My first time backpacking last week. Fun.

Tuolumne