Dan Bailey's Adventure Photography Blog » Press, Interviews and Info http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog Exploring the World of Outdoor Photography with Tips, News, Imagery and Insight Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:11:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Get All 3 of My Photography eBooks for only $17 http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/get-all-3-of-my-photography-ebooks-for-only-17/ http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/get-all-3-of-my-photography-ebooks-for-only-17/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:02:11 +0000 Dan Bailey http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/?p=7441 How’s this for a deal? Right now you can get ALL 3 of my photography eBooks for only $17. I’m offering this limited time deal through PhotoWhoa.com, who has bundled together all three of my books at a 48% discount off … Continue reading →]]> // deal

How’s this for a deal?

Right now you can get ALL 3 of my photography eBooks for only $17.

I’m offering this limited time deal through PhotoWhoa.com, who has bundled together all three of my books at a 48% discount off of the regular price.

This offer is only good through February 7, and it will likely happen again, at least not any time soon.

How to Become a Pro Photographer

You want to take the next step from amateur to pro, but you have no idea how you can start earning a living from photography. This e-book answers many of your questions about the industry and the business-side of photography.

With this e-book, you will learn the ins and outs of the photography business. This book isn’t about how to take better photos, it’s about taking your hobby into a full-time career. This is the book to read if you need to know about the business and logistics side of a photography career.

Making the Image

Making the Image is a conceptual guide to have you thinking outside of the box so you can start creating beautiful images. With this guide, you’ll be able to learn how you can take beautiful photos in order to create true emotional impact with your audience.

Bailey utilizes beautiful imagery from his own portfolio so you can easily grasp the concepts that he’s teaching. For your convenience, the book is horizontally formatted, making it easily readable on computers and iPads.

Going Fast with Light

Going Fast with Light teaches you the nitty-gritty technical details so you can properly use your tools to take better photos. Specifically, you’ll learn about using off-camera flash in outdoor settings, where even the best photographers have trouble against the elements of nature.

With the techniques used by Dan Bailey, you’ll be able to efficiently take control of lighting situations even when you face great challenges such as the sun, and you’ll be able to do it without having to lug cumbersome, heavy lighting equipment.

Click Here to Get All 3 of These eBooks for Just $17

Again, this offer ends on February 7. Consider signing up for my Adventure Photography Blog Newsletter to stay informed about future deals and get exclusive content delivered right your inbox.

]]> http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/get-all-3-of-my-photography-ebooks-for-only-17/feed/ 0 Now a Featured Photoflex Pro Showcase Photographer http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/now-a-featured-photoflex-pro-showcase-photographer/ http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/now-a-featured-photoflex-pro-showcase-photographer/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:26:26 +0000 Dan Bailey http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/?p=7395 I’m proud to announce that I’m now officially featured as a Photoflex Pro Showcase Photographer. As someone who’s been using Photoflex gear for over 20 years, (I still have the 12″ LiteDisk that I bought in 1991 and my Photoflex Galen … Continue reading →]]>


Dan Bailey is a featured Photoflex professional showcase photographerI’m proud to announce that I’m now officially featured as a Photoflex Pro Showcase Photographer. As someone who’s been using Photoflex gear for over 20 years, (I still have the 12″ LiteDisk that I bought in 1991 and my Photoflex Galen Rowell Chest Pouch), I’m excited and extremely honored to be included among a group of very talented and accomplished shooters, who Photoflex feels are “masters of shaping light and capturing the perfect image.”

In my Going Fast With Light style of adventure and action strobist photography, I need gear that’s lightweight, durable, quick to set up, and that performs in all conditions outside. Let’s face it, I’m highly energetic, and frankly, kind of a spaz at times. I’ve been known to drop things, bang into stuff, and on occasion, even fall down with my gear in hand. I need tools that get the job done and that won’t break, or at least that I can bend and cajole back into shape with a set of Leatherman pliers and some duct tape.

Photoflex gear fits that very strict set of criteria for me. Lately, I’ve been posting some of the photos that I’ve been able to create with my favorite Photoflex tools, such as the Octodome NXT and the WhiteDome softboxes and the TritonFlash battery powered strobe. Very simply, I’m excited about the gear and I’m excited about the imagery that it helps me make.

Check out my profile page on the Photoflex Showcase site and look for the first of my Photoflex LightingSchool Tutorials later this month.

My sincere thanks to the great folks at Photoflex for making kick ass gear, for recognizing me and my photography and for including me in their lineup of professional image makers.

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Following up from yesterdays post, My 10 Favorite Photos of 2011, I continue to look back at 2011 with fondness and excitement for what the year brought me besides money, fortune and fame, or at least a little bit of all three.

Here are my Top 10 Photography Highlights from the past year, in somewhat chronological order. I’m sure that as soon as I finish writing this, I’ll remember a few more…

1. Trail Runner Magazine, January 2011 Issue

I kicked off the year with a great publication, the TOC page and an inside feature in the January issue of Trail Runner Magazine.

I’ve known the guys at Trail Runner for years, having worked with some of them back in their Climbing Magazine days, but this was my first time being published in Trail Runner, and it was a great way to begin 2011.

Stay tuned for another Trail Runner kick-off for 2012…

2. Making The Image

In February I released my second eBook, Making The Image, a 50 page conceptual guidebook that is geared towards helping photographers create stronger images. Making The Image brought forth nearly two decades of creative and visual ideas that have been integral elements of my own style into a highly focused, and concise manual. Accessible to photographers of all levels, Making The Image sold very well out of the gate and continues to find new audiences each month.

However, as every area of my photography, the driving force behind this eBook was creating, not just selling, and I’m extremely proud of the effort and content that I put into this volume. It has certainly set the tone for my writing, which has only continued to grow in the past couple of years.

3. The Flash Bus

In March of 2011, I caught The Flash Bus lighting workshop in Denver. Not only was it well worth my time and money, I won some lighting ear, met new friends and of course, leaned a s**t load of awesome flash techniques from two lighting masters, Joe McNally and David Hobby.

I’d already started ramping up my own lighting use at the beginning of 2011, and so the stuff I learned during the intensive all day workshop only stoked the fires of my own creative photography ideas and carried me to new lands of illumination.

If you didn’t get a chance to catch The Flash Bus, you can grab the DVD or downloadable content here.

4. B&H Insights Blog

Earlier this year I was asked by the folks at B&H photo to contribute to the B&H Insights blog. Read by tens of thousands of readers, this only served to increase my online and writing exposure, and it also helped further build a great relationship with the great group of people who work in the B&H social media department.

5. Feature Article on The PocketWizard Blog

A longtime PocketWizard user, I was thrilled to be featured on the PocketWizard blog this year. Following the same week as a feature on sports-shooting giant Dave Black, writer Ron Egaz interviewed me and put together what a think is a really great profile on me and my style. You can read the full article, Dan Bailey’s Big Adventures.

6. Cessna N3102N

As you probably know, I bought my first airplane this year, a 1947 Cessna 120. Aside from fulfilling a life long dream and now having more fun than is legally allowed in many countries, having my own plane of course opens up great possibilities for adventure and photography in Alaska.

From backcountry strips, beach landings, glacier fly-bys, and aerial photography, the little Cessna has already provided me with some awesome opportunities, as is illustrated in this photo below:

7. Pearl Award For Photography in Mariner Magazine

This year, one of my favorite clients, Holland America’s Mariner Magazine won a number of prestigious Pearl Awards, including “Best Use of Photography” for the issue that featured my Denali National Park cover story.

This year, I traveled to Skagway, Alaska on assignment for Mariner and look forward to working with them on more projects in the future.

8. Going Fast With Light

On October 19 of this year, I released my third eBook, Going Fast With Light, a defining guidebook towards using off-camera flash in active and outdoor photography styles.

Having spent much of 2011 experimenting, refining my own style of outdoor strobist type photography, and distilling it all into a style of “light and fast flash,” I wrote Going Fast With Light to show you that “Good light doesn’t have to slow you down.”

Not only has the book sold incredibly well, it has been well received and promoted by companies such as B&H Photo, Lumiquest and PocketWizard and Photoflex, and it has opened up a number of new professional doors. Stay tuned…!

9. PDN PhotoPlus Expo

At the end of October, I attended the 2011 PDN PhotoPlus Expo. As the on-site correspondent for The Photoletariat, I perused the show floor for the coolest new photo gear, which I blogged about in my show-coverage every day. I also met a number of my Twitter photographer friends, like Jack Hollingsworth, Ken Kaminesky, Photo_John Shafer and Dane Sanders, and caught some really informative photography seminars.

10. Nikon Covers

Nikon has been a client of mine for a very long time, but this was the first year I’d made the cover of one of their marketing publications. In October, I had photos on the front and back cover of the Fall 2011 DSLR Comparison Guide, and they’re slated to run again in the Winter 2012 Guide.

Special Mention: You, my readers.

Seriously, without you, this blog, my Facebook Page and my Twitter feed, would be just jumbled bits of unread text and code. You guys make this blog and my social media sites what they are, and you drive me to keep creating the content that fills week after week of posts, article and photography.

So, thank you very much for reading, and look forward to 2012 with me, and with your own photography.

Also, I’d love to hear your feedback. Let me know what you like, what you don’t like or what you’d like to see more or less of on these pages in the coming year.

Finally, leave a comment and share your biggest photography highlight of 2011!

]]> http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/my-top-10-photography-highlights-of-2011/feed/ 5 Winter Photography Tips – Today on MasteringPhoto.com http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/winter-photography-tips-today-on-masteringphoto-com/ http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/winter-photography-tips-today-on-masteringphoto-com/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:36:43 +0000 Dan Bailey http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/?p=6830 Just in time for the Winter Solstice, which comes to Anchorage, Alaska at 8:30PM this evening, check out my Cold Winter Photography Tips post today on the MasteringPhoto Blog. Powered by Focal Press, the publisher of a number of excellent photography … Continue reading →]]>


Just in time for the Winter Solstice, which comes to Anchorage, Alaska at 8:30PM this evening, check out my Cold Winter Photography Tips post today on the MasteringPhoto Blog.

Powered by Focal Press, the publisher of a number of excellent photography and digital imaging books, MasteringPhoto features tips, articles, tutorials, interviews and resources from bestselling authors and industry experts that are geared towards photographers of all levels.

This is my first time writing for Focal Press. I’m excited to be affiliated with such an excellent and reputable publisher of photographer related resources. I hope to contribute more in 2012.

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I’m excited to announce that Going Fast With Light is now available in a Kindle Version at the Amazon Store.

Although the PDF format of this eBook is already optimized and viewable on mobile devices such as the iPad and the new Kindle Fire, you can now get the entire book in the standard Kindle format.

All the photos are there, as is every bit of the text and product links to the gear that I recommend in the book.

And, just in time for the holidays, I’m offering the Kindle Version of Going Fast With Light to you at a special price. Pick up a copy for yourself, or buy it for your strobist friend or family member who is interested more about how to use lighting and off-camera flash in their photography. Trust me, it makes a great gift. If I didn’t write it, I’d want someone to buy it for me!

And if you’ve already purchased the PDF copy of Going Fast With Light, then please consider writing a review about the book at the Amazon Store. I’d really appreciate it! Think of it as your holiday gift to me.

Going Fast With Light- Because good light doesn’t have to slow you down.

Click here to get it at the Amazon Store.

]]> http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/going-fast-with-light-kindle-version-now-available/feed/ 2 Read My Barrow, Alaska Photo Essay on Matador Network http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/read-my-barrow-alaska-photo-essay-on-matador-network/ http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/read-my-barrow-alaska-photo-essay-on-matador-network/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:15:35 +0000 Dan Bailey http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/?p=6624 Read my featured travel article and photo essay about Barrow, Alaska published today on Matador Network. Matador Network is a media company based around travel culture worldwide. With 1.4 million unique monthly readers, it’s the most read independent online travel … Continue reading →]]>


Read my featured travel article and photo essay about Barrow, Alaska published today on Matador Network.

Matador Network is a media company based around travel culture worldwide. With 1.4 million unique monthly readers, it’s the most read independent online travel magazine.

With their mission of empowering, connecting and promoting culture, conservation and sustainability around the world, Matador has won Lowell Thomas awards for recognition of excellence in travel writing and journalism for two years in a row.

I’m very excited to be working with Matador and look forward to collaborating with them on future projects.

 

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I’m excited to announce that Going Fast With Light has been updated with brand new content!

I’ve added some new and updated items in the gear section, a few extra links, as well as one or two new photos. Plus, I’ve fixed a few small errors that were discovered after initial publication.

If you’ve already purchased Going Fast With Light, then you should have already received an email with a link to the updated version. Let me know if you didn’t get that email and I’ll make sure you get the update.

If you haven’t checked out this 83-page manual on off camera flash and lightweight lighting techniques yet, what are you waiting for?

With current lighting technology and the wide array of light modifying tools that are available today, there’s no reason that you can’t take some of this gear with you for those times when you’re dealing with challenging light. There’s no reason that you can’t walk away with photos that look more professional, instead of walking away with excuses about how the light just didn’t cooperate.

Essentially, Going Fast With Light is a detailed instruction manual on flash that’s been distilled down from my own fast breaking, highly adaptive, first person style of photography. I wrote it to make using flash easy to understand. Using a very simple, yet effective workflow, and numerous examples of how to apply it so that you can bring your subjects to life, I show you how to take control of the light so that it doesn’t take control of you.

And since it’s a PDF file that’s viewable on mobile devices like the iPad, the iPhone and the new color Kindle Fire, there’s no reason that you can’t take it with you for reference on location.

I don’t use flash all the time, and neither should you. However, during those times when even just one extra light might make a remarkable and creative difference in the strength of the image, don’t you want to be able to shoot with confidence?

Then check out Going Fast With Light and see what it can do for your photography today.

Going Fast With Light, Because good light doesn’t have to slow you down.

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The winner of the Going Fast With Light gift card contest is Oregon photographer Matt Koenig!

Matt wins a $500 spending spree at B&HPhoto on me. What will you buy, Matt?

My thanks to everyone who bought and downloaded my new off-camera flash eBook during the last two weeks. I sincerely appreciate your support and positive comments about the book.

Visit Matt’s website at www.mattkoenigphotography.com

Have a great weekend!

]]> http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/and-the-winner-is/feed/ 1 Going Fast With Light – $500 B&H Gift Card Contest http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/going-fast-with-light-500-bh-gift-card-contest/ http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/going-fast-with-light-500-bh-gift-card-contest/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:03:38 +0000 Dan Bailey http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/?p=5988 Who wants a $500 Gift Card from B&H Photo? What could you buy with that? An SB-900? A 580EX II? A flash AND a decent softbox? A whole mess of Lumiquest tools? A couple of Pocket Wizards? Here’s the deal. … Continue reading →]]>


Who wants a $500 Gift Card from B&H Photo? What could you buy with that?

An SB-900? A 580EX II? A flash AND a decent softbox? A whole mess of Lumiquest tools? A couple of Pocket Wizards?

Here’s the deal. I’m so excited about my new eBook Going Fast With Light that I’m willing wager $500 on it.

Buy Going Fast With Light in the next two weeks and you’ll automatically be entered into a drawing to win a $500 gift card from B&H Photo.

The card is on me, so basically I’m giving 500 bucks to one lucky reader just just for buying my book; $500 to spend on whatever you want at the biggest photo retailer in the entire galaxy.

Awesome informative ebook that’s literally filled with years of pro insight, AND a chance to take my checkbook to B&H Photo, all for less than the cost of a halfway decent camera strap? I don’t think I could offer any more value.

Going Fast With Light: 83 pages of-off camera flash instruction for those who light to go light and fast. Tools, tips and techniques for like to practice strobist-style photography with minimal gear that all fits in one bag. Especially geared towards active and outdoor photographers.

“Because good light doesn’t have to slow you down.”

Get it now.

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PDN PhotoPlus Expo happens this week in New York City. Who’s excited?

I’ll be there checking out all the new gear and making my wish list, and I’ll also be The Photoletariat‘s man on the ground. I’ll be blogging right from the show floor, tweeting, posting Facebook updates with photos, interviews, videos and news each day. In addition I’ll try to share what I learn at some of the many great seminars that I’m able to pop my ears into.

Like and watch The Photoletariat Page on Facebook all week and keep your Twitter ear tuned to @photoletariats to stay up on the latest photo industry blitz!

And if there is anything that you’re dying to know about regarding new gear, comment below and I’ll try to bring you what info I can.

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