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Professor of Dance Christal Brown
Professor of Dance Christal Brown demonstrates a series of moves in this long exposure photograph made inside Middlebury College's dance theatre.
Using the low-level illumination provided by the stage lighting, Christal performed a series of moves from right to left across the frame. At key moments of her sequence, I used a radio to trigger a pair of small hotshoe strobes at stage left and right, freezing those moments in the image.
This was probably the most fun I've ever had on a shoot. Christal was wonderful to work with and we had the freedom to take a chance and experiment creatively with an unconventional technique. I believe it paid off. -
David Family Library and the Green Mountains in Autumn
Very soon the landscape of Vermont will be swimming with the rich, bold colors of fall, like in this aerial image from 2018. -
Middlebury Campus from the Top of Mead Chapel
I've had the pleasure of climbing to the top of Mead Chapel several times over the years to photograph high-resolution vistas of the Middlebury College campus and the western slopes of the Green Mountains. Nowadays we'd probably use a drone to capture this type of image, but I would miss the perspective that actually being there provides. -
Summer at Bread Loaf
Summer at the Bread Loaf Campus, photographed in the near-infrared spectrum and converted to black and white. -
Davis Family Library, Middlebury College, Vermont
The Davis Family Library on the Middlebury College campus at sunset.
My first, lasting experience with mirrorless cameras was with the Sigma DP-1 compact. It was only 16 megapixels, but because it directly sampled the colors from a scene on its multilayered sensor (instead of interpolating the colors through a Bayer filter) the images it produced were unbelievably sharp and detailed.
Unfortunately, the proprietary image format meant you had to use specialized software to edit the images and the multilayered sensor required good light to produce images with an acceptable amount of noise.
Still, it was a worthwhile camera that produced a great deal of my favorite images, including a majority of portraits from my Apple Pickers series. -
Werner Pfeiffer - Out of the Sky: Remembering 9/11 Demonstration
Book artist Werner Pfeiffer demonstrated the assembly of his interactive book Out of the Sky: Remembering 9/11 at Middlebury College's Davis Family Library on September 14th, 2011.
The original assignment was for stills. I shot the time lapse sequence on a whim but it was never used.