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Category: Sol Tamargo
Sol Tamargo in Calgary
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo

With the outbreak of the FLU, we have been dealing with lots of cancellations and troubles with clients, trying to make effort to help our clients rebook or reschedule a date that works for both parties.   This has connected us with one of our Canadian clients who is forced to reschedule back home, in Calgary.  Her tour operator cancelled ALL flights to Mexico from April 28 - June 4th.   This has to be one of the most sensationalized and ridiculous things to happen in…

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American Photo Magazine Top 10…
by: Matt
posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock  Kym Skiles  Anna Kuperberg  Cliff Mautner  Apertura  f8 Studios

 

Sol & I are exceptionally stoked and honestly elated to be selected for this list.   I've drooled over and studied the work of these same photographers.  Its really an honor to be listed with them.  Lots of inspiration shopping by visiting these sites.   I promise, before your next wedding, go through an entire folio on one of these togs sites...…

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new gear wishes...drooling actually…
by: Matt
posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock

I was surfing the web and have been trying to figure out what kind of gear would be great to have.....

We will be investing in primes since we have all the desired zoom ranges currently made by canon that fit with our shooting....  15, 24 t/s, 35, 50, 85 are currently in the toolbox.    We have been thinking heavily on a few and thought it may be nice to hear feedback from any readers about their personal fav's and why.…

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USA Today features flash crazy…
by: Matt
posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock  David Ziser  David Hobby | Strobist  Joe McNally

Yep, the secret is out.  Flash adds an element to the photographers toolbox that enables lots of creative freedom.  Photographers are pooling their knowledge and offering hand-outs on tips, techniques and often or not, movies on what or how they do what they do.  

Thanks to a FF reader, today I was directed to a writeup in the USA Today about the emerging…

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My favorite RED
by: Matt
posted on Saturday, April 04, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock

Flashflavor dragging a$$ these days... sorry folks.   Just clocked 10 weddings, 4 TTD sessions in March... holy moly we are off to a crazy spring spree of shooting like mad.....again.


Those that know us hang in there, we are still here and also working on a new project blog for del Sol Photography.   This site has been a major drain on free time with all the development and data gathering, writing, idea brainstorms...etc... lots been happening and we aren't getting…

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FF Trashing gets published
by: Matt
posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock

I was surprised to see the recent issue of Bodissima Magazine, a Mexican publication that hits the stands for the 1st quarter of 2009 in Monterrey and Mexico City.  WOW, that's some serious coverage.    We have been so lucky to participate with the Trash the Dress movement in the last few years and I'm so proud to see that Sol also got the cover photo too... I'm so stoked to see the movement start to move through…

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Sol tricks her Sync Speed
by: Matt
posted on Friday, February 27, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock  David Ziser

I just happen to peek over my shoulder yesterday while Sol was editing one of her recent TTD sessions.    She is always using her flash creatively in the right bright light conditions, admits to finding a newly learned technique quite helpful.


I was visiting Digital Pro Talk a bit back and did a ff post on David Ziser "tricking the sync…

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help from one light
by: Matt
posted on Friday, February 06, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock

I definitely enjoy hanging out in venues that are bigger than life.   Recently, I needed to fill some space with light.  We were dealing with powerful theatrical stage lighting and added a 1/1 full power blast to the right of bride and groom.   The light spills and gives some dimension to the space.


I just used this as a quick way to execute a shot when on the run, walking around the building to get just about every photo along the way.  I shot these…

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Speaking for the PPOCA in Playa…
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock

I recently was hanging out with the Professional Photographers of Canada-Alberta here in the Riviera Maya and was speaking on my photojournalism ideals and giving a quick demo of using low lighting conditions and accenting a subject with flash / video light and using color correction gels.  Sol accompanied and helped assist us on the beach with the demo.  She also provided well needed moral support for…

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We need your help this time!!!!…
by: Matt
posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo

HELP US, PLEASE!  Can you get this slideshow to load on your computer and play ALL the way through without crashing or slowing down your machine?

Ok,  so we are in the midst of developing a new blogsite / website / new FACE for del Sol Photography.    One of the elements we are working on is a new slideshow format.   This slideshow is going to be integrated / embedded into our blog posts and have the ability to go FULL screen.


One of the…

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del Sol Anniversary Flash Flavor…
by: Matt
posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 in Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock

Shot this FF material at a location with a few creative camera / flash & creative lighting tricks.

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TTD Water follow-up
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 in Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock

This is an update to give a little more depth to the last completely underground Cenote TTD session.

 

Technically, this kind of session really can push the equipment to the total risk.   We ended up tossing a Pocket Wizard Multi Max in the drink on this session.   I never really liked that Max, too many buttons to push on the front.   I'd find myself shooting and having brushed…

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I see movement
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo  Matt Adcock

Recently, I was assembling a few galleries and found a few shots that Sol shot and wanted to share with you.  Let this be a little motion motivation for you :)  Here are 3 frames where a flash helped act as the shutter and freeze the action involved, just enough so the ambient and movement patterns would leave a ghosting look.  This technique is easy to follow, drag shutter, add flash :)   low power flash preferably.


She has done very well capturing motion…

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more SOL inspiration
by: Matt
posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo
I was looking over my wife's shoulder as she was working on a recent wedding... She is just on fire with some of her attempts with flashflavor recently. Specifically, I was noticing that she is doing a brilliant job of fooling the eye. I wrote about her attempts to lead the eye out of believing that there is any flash involved in this past FF article. Here, she is at it again with a pretty nice portrait attempt.…

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atlanta pictage user group meeting…
by: Matt
posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 in Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo  LaCour
While I am in the US, I am giving a small chat about getting the flash off the camera at the local Pictage user group meeting (pug) at Java Vino tomorrow at 7pm in Atlanta GA. These meetings are set up by Pictage so that users can get together and network and talk about business. I'd love to invite you to join us! Please come to visit if you can :) The meeting is at: THURSDAY June 5th 7pm-9pm at Java Vino in the room upstairs! 579 N. Highland…

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here is what we did
by: Matt
posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 in Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
Well, I must say that I'm impressed by all of your creativity with ideas on how to light this setup. Everyone who commented has a great idea and we all have respect that there is no right answer on how do to this stuff... matter of fact, I'm a bumbling idiot at most of my weddings with last minute inspiration to do whatever it is that I do... I'm liking all the suggestions, even the one of attempting to light the ocean. I'd be curios to try this setup at an upcoming wedding. Possibly a blue gel?…

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sol's hot toast
by: Matt
posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo
Have you ever shot people toasting at a wedding? Every shot it from below? Yeah, we probably all have. If you haven't yet, give it a whirl. If you use on camera flash and just blast them with light, it will be less desirable and likely a whatever photo, not getting a lot of interest. This technique will help you visualize how to take a normal / standard exposed moment that you have seen a million times and add a little flavor to it. First step is to make sure you have evaluated the surroundings…

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label your gear
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 in Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
I was unloading batteries today after a recent shoot. We stage all of our gear on a table as we pull old batteries out and put new ones in. I looked down at our equipment pile and got to thinking about a Flashflavor post. Since ALL our gear is mixed up, how the heck do we know whose is what? Once you start to build a nice equipment inventory, its about darn time that it get cataloged or labeled so you know what ya got! We are a studio with 4 maybe 5 shooters at a given time. It is crucial to us…

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Radiopopper testing
by: Matt
posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 in Photographers  Kevin King  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
I am very excited to see the birth of the Radiopopper this year. This write-up will serve as a initial preview of my experience with this revolutionary unit. In order to give a full review, I will need this baby on a few of my wedding gigs. I hope to be shooting with them at my first few weddings in April. We haven't used TTL at a wedding with off camera slaves in a long long time. Heck, I can't tell you when. I love to change up my game, so the popper is an exciting new tool in my tool box! We…

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Another FF Trash the Dress
by: Matt
posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 in Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
We have been very lucky in a sense that our clients commission us to fly all over the world and shoot in some super exotic places. One of the requested sessions is typically an after wedding session where there are no rules and the dress likely will end up in the sand or swimming in the ocean. This allows for total creative freedom. I wanted to share another one of these sessions we shot recently in the Dominican Republic. We ended up spending the whole day with these folks driving across the entire…

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Del Sol Trash the Dress | Bat…
by: Matt
posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 in Matt Adcock  Photographers  Sol Tamargo
How much can I begin to say about the fun that we are having with our subjects. Our clients are escaping to a wonderful destination location and planning the wedding of their dreams. Why not dream a little more and go out on an exotic excursion to be photographed in the land of fairy tales? This is exactly what we are doing with our sessions and I often need to pinch myself. Picture yourself in the middle of a muddy deep dark hole and bats are flying around, everywhere. Watch out, if you step in…

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flash flavor accidents
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 in Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
Have you ever been shooting and had this miracle blessing where an off camera strobe (not your intentional flash) just appeared from the background / foreground and illuminated your frame, thus delivering a magical image that was totally unplanned and seemingly excellently executed? If so, then you should be thankful to be LUCKY :) Well, in our few years of shooting we have been lucky enough to see a random strobe appear. In this photo example, Sol…

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matts back
by: Matt
posted on Tuesday, December 25, 2007 in Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo  sergio  LaCour
I just wanted to say thank you David Hobby at Strobist for your kind words and recognition. David has helped both Sol & I achieve publication in 3 magazines, around the world... all in the last 2 months! David Hobby is one of the super heros of internet marketing. If you sell anything marketed to photographers, you should be advertising on his site. He has zillions of readers and…

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splash of color
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo
This last week, Sol Tamargo & I were in Mexico City covering a traditional Mexican ceremony. What is totally odd about that is the fact that we shoot 50+ weddings in Mexico every year and rarely is ONE of them a Mexican client. These guys had 400 guests with pretty beautiful decor. The bride's preparation took place in her parents home in a very exclusive home in suburb of the city. How many times have you seen the dress hanging? Did you…

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a little color
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo
I was looking at one of our recent weddings where Sol Tamargo had spent some time with the bride who was getting ready at the Buckhead ATL Ritz Carrolton Hotel, who was heading downstairs for a ballroom wedding and reception, all at the hotel. For those of you who have been to similar city hotels, you may find that there inst too many places you can go for awesome setup shots.... Often enough, on the fly is the way you need to work. In this…

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happy accidents again, to light…
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
We are moving towards doing 100% destination weddings, BUT, we are still contracted here and there to shoot in a big church or cathedral, where you can expect DARK dungeon type lighting. I always find it a challenge when the ceremony starts at 7:30 pm in the summer, Catholic service, so you are easy looking at 1 hour ceremony and 15 minutes of formals... Basically, there is NO natural light outside for any bride & groom shots... oh well. Pull out the

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hard light city
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
I shoot some pretty direct flash, as hard as the light may be sometimes...i kinda like it. I've heard talk about photographers that use hard light and it seems that sometimes it may be frowned upon...My take is "who cares". If you have had a chance to dig through my stuff, you will find a portfolio with some hard light hanging around. I'd say the edgy feel sorta defines my style a bit. You can always migrate to a bounce flash and soften the situation quite a bit but, most of the time, I'm on the…

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storytelling
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo
We use our remote flashes to tell stories about our subjects, and in this case, I was again inspired by the flash inside the frame to post another one of Sol Tamargo's image sets. This post is about using the off camera flash more dynamically when that flash is located directly across from the field of view of your lens. Sol had her eyes on these children the entire time as they played with their toys all night long. I credit her for pursuing a strong photojournalism moment and then going one step…

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flash bursts inside the frame
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo
Ok... still on vacation :) last day. I am in the hotel getting ready for 6 hrs of flying today and 3 or so hours of airport layover. I was inspired by the last post "rim light" and decided to discuss the technique of including the flash burst INSIDE the frame. I have used this compositional technique "what feels like a million times" and each time I do it, I am trying to use the burst to strengthen the moment...…

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happy accidents
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo
This one is short and sweet because I'm headed on vacation and I don't have too much time here so I just figured I'd get to the point.. Happy Accidents, thats all... Yep, they happen to everybody just about every day. Sometimes you don't even realize they are happy until AFTER the wedding... At that point, you can put them into your reserves and turn a happy accident into a sweet moment! In this photo example, Sol was shooting a portrait moment with her bride who was patiently waiting for her call…

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beach chapel highlight
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Sol Tamargo
Before I get into another post, I wanted to invite everyone into the classroom for a lighting shakedown. Do you want to learn strobe lighting? Visit Strobist | Lighting 101 which I thought was GOLD until Strobist | Lighting 102 came out... 102 is just an overview at this point BUT still super valuable... David Hobby…

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magic hour & photographing setting…
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
Photographers have long known about the magical time after sunset sometimes known as the "magical hour" or the "golden hour". In this time, it is said that the colors and the quality of light will be tip top. I am often in the Riviera Maya shooting and that particular coast looks east mostly so we end up waiting for the sky to change colors. I am a big fan of the 30 minutes after sunset and the next 30 minutes after that. This technique will improve your portfolio because it will enable the client…

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KIDS ROCK!
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
KIDS at weddings rock! If you use your imagination, you can make fairytale imagery! When shooting a reception, I'm pretty sure we have all noticed small children playing on the dance floor with no inhibitions..Spinning, jumping, rolling, twisting, sliding and always SMILING. :) PERFECT photo chance... I don't really like to stand anywhere for more than a few seconds while shooting as the shot angle & composition possibilities will start to grow redundant...so, we move around and change it up. With…

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who am I
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
I've been getting a few emails about who I am and what we do and where are we based out of.... I have been an Atlanta GA based wedding photographer for the last 5 years. Half of my weddings are destination weddings throughout the Southeast US... GA, NC, SC, FL Coast and the Caribbean and the Riviera Maya. My Homepage, www.mattadcock.com | www.mattadcock.com/blog One day a few years ago, I was introduced to one…

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Riviera Maya Trash The Dress,…
by: Matt
posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in Photographers  Photographers  Matt Adcock  Sol Tamargo
My awesome photographer fiance, www.soltamargo.com & I shot a wedding on April 9th and ended up going back out the next day with the couple to do a trash the dress session in the middle of the Jungle in the Mayan Riviera. We decided to film a documentary movie (www.delsolphotography.com/ttd/ttd1) with our P&S camera while swimming in a Cenote with our 5d's. We live in Playa del Carmen and have a great…

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