The latest presentation at B&H is now online!

Last week I did a presentation called "Photographing the Olympics Over the Last 15 Years: How Technology Has Changed Everything". It was a totally new presentation that I created for this event, and while I was building the presentation, even I was amazed at how much has changed from my first Olympics in 2008 until now.

And even though most of you won't be photographing the Olympics, all of this information is pertinent to everyday photography.

You can see the video HERE or by clicking on the image below.

I hope you enjoy the presentation!

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A NEW B&H presentation next week!

It has been a while since I have done a B&H Event Space presentation, but the wait is over. Next week, on May 8th at 3pm (EST) I will be presenting on a new topic. This time around I will be talking about how technology has changed since covering my first Olympics in 2008 and how that affects the way I capture the photos, the way I work, and the overall images.  

I am really excited to share this presentation with all of you, as I think it is fascinating to see how fast technology has changed in the past 16 years. 

You can thank ProGrade Digital for sponsoring this presentation, which means that it is FREE for you to watch. All you have to do is register HERE.

I hope to see you next week!

Jeff

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My Olympic work featured in local magazines

It is always an honor to be written up in a magazine or newspaper, and I am really excited about this new article since it highlights my Olympic work. This was published last week in numerous magazines in the area. The writer did a really nice job of capturing my story. I hope you enjoy it!

Behind the scenes with Jeff Cable, independent photographer for Team USA

BY MARIA GRUSAUSKAS

 

When asked what his favorite sport is to photograph, Jeff Cable, Olympic Team USA’s only

independent photographer, answered within a shutter speed’s thousandth of a second: “Anything different.”

Cable is a rare breed of photographer whose niche is that he doesn't have one. Beyond the Olympics, there are lizards in Tanzania to capture, exotic tree frogs in Costa Rica, Bay Area bar mitzvahs and events, portraiture for corporate clients like YouTube and Facebook, and so much more—and he loves shooting it all.

“I don’t give a [hoot] what I’m shooting, as long as I’m doing it right,” says Cable, who grew up in San Francisco and is currently

based in Saratoga. “For me, it’s just a general overall passion for photography.”

He’ll never forget the first time he shot bobsledding, for instance. “It was incredible," Cable says. "And so much fun to challenge myself and figure out how to shoot it.”

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Cable shot 26 different sports. Yet he still has fun shooting water polo or ice hockey again and again, the primary sports he has been photographing at the Olympics since 2008.

“I like to challenge myself to shoot everything differently than I did in previous years. Whether it’s the technology getting better, or me getting better at shooting, taking more risks to get a shot, that’s what

drives me. I want to push myself. I don’t want to get stagnant,” he says via Zoom on the 100-day countdown to the pandemic- delayed 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo— his seventh as a photographer.

“To be around some of the best athletes in the world, it’s just such an honor,” says Cable.

As the team photographer he’s in the unique position of being, well, a member of the team. “As a photographer, you’re really a historian,” he says of his approach to his work. “Whether it’s a bar mitzvah or the Olympics.”

Capturing history at the Olympics may be a lot of fun, but it’s also “a ton of work.” While all of us at home get to relax on the couch, Cable gets texts from his friends and family, “I’m watching you on TV!”

as he works from 9am to 3am for three weeks straight, on 14-minute deadlines.

“So if I shoot a game and I’ve got 1,000 images, I have 14 minutes to find the best ones, retouch and resize them and get them back to the U.S. They want it fast. But I relish the challenge,” says Cable, who is sponsored by Canon, and has access to the highest-tech equipment and fastest memory cards around today. He also takes his Olympics-paced work ethic and seriousness with him to all of his jobs, usually getting clients their photo galleries by noon the next day.

In the little downtime that he has, Cable blogs from the Olympics on his website, showing hundreds of thousands of his followers behind- the-scenes snapshots and well- written stories about unforgettable Olympic moments, like seeing the U.S. women’s hockey team win a gold medal against Canada in Pyeongchang—an event he reveals as his number-one bucket list item since he began photographing the Olympics.

“Those girls were out there celebrating until the lights were turned off,” Cable, who celebrated out on the ice with them, recalls.

“I’m one of those lucky people," says Cable. "I just love what I do."

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A recent interview that I would like to share with you all

A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by Samy's Camera, and I thought that their questions were really good. They went beyond the normal camera equipment questions and got more personal. I thought that you would all enjoy this read as well.

Here is a repost of their blog.

Interview: Jeff Cable – Olympic Photographer

Professional photographer Jeff Cable is only months away from flying off to photograph his fifth Olympic Games for Team USA. Quite a journey from the photographer who started his career shooting Bar and Bat Mitzvahs in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since then, he has covered Olympic Games in Beijing, Vancouver, London and Sochi, Russia.

Before he heads off to shoot the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Jeff Cable will first be joining Samy’s Camera at PhotoCon LA on May 21st & 22nd at the Reef in Downtown Los Angeles.

Sponsored by Lexar, Jeff will be presenting a free class each day of PhotCon LA. Saturday, May 21st he will be teaching a sports photography themed class called ‘How To Get Great Sports Photos (Whether It Is The Olympics Or Your Own Kids). The Jeff Cable photography class on Sunday, May 22nd will be “Business of Photography: How To Make Money In This Ever Changing Industry”

Both classes, and many others, will be free for all PhotoCon LA ticket holders. Tickets to PhotoCon LA are just $10 for a one day pass or $15 for both days with kids under 12 going free.  Tickets can be purchased on the PhotoCon LA ticket page.

Samy’s Camera Photo Blog was lucky enough to have Jeff Cable take a break from his Team USA and PhotoCon LA preparations to discuss his career as a professional photographer and his experiences at Olympic photographer for Team USA.

Q: You are often described as a self-taught photographer. At a time where photography lessons and tips weren’t available with a click of a mouse, what resources did you use to help educate yourself?

A: I read a lot of photo books and magazines to get started, and would often try to replicate what I saw on those pages. At first, it was really about learning to control the camera. I have always been technologically savvy, so understanding digital cameras came pretty easy to me.

My biggest challenge was learning creative compositions and then learning to better control light with the camera and flash. I still find that learning how to control my speedlights is tougher than controlling the camera.

I also was lucky enough to be surrounded with great photographers who taught me a lot. Friends like Moose Peterson, Jay Dickman, Joe McNally, Denis Reggie, Joe Buissink, and others, all helped me along the way.

Q: With millions having viewed your free online photography classes, you are now a photography teacher yourself.  Did being self-taught have an impact on how you present your lessons?

A: Absolutely. It was great having tough critics to give me constructive feedback. Sure, it was hard when I sent what I thought was a really good shot, only to hear that it was not a good photo. But I needed that harsh feedback to push me in the right direction. This is why I do the same for people who look to me for feedback. I am tough – but honest. If they just want praise, they can post their photo on social media, and their friends will tell them that it is a great photo, whether it is or not.

Q: We’ve heard that Steve Wozniak gave you your first digital camera.  Is that true and, if so, what lead up that? Do you remember the camera he gave you?

A: Yep, that is the truth. Woz and I have been good friends for more than 30 years now. As you know, he loves technology. He also liked having friends learn the new technology with him, so that we could learn from each other.

He went to Tokyo and purchased a couple of Ricoh RDC-1 cameras (not even 1 Megapixel) with optional LCD displays, and brought one back for me. A couple of years later, I made a couple of trips to Japan with him and we bought different models of the Casio Exilim cameras. We loved the small size and instantaneous photos.

At one point he gave me an Olympus E-10 camera. This was the first “real” digital camera I had ever used, with a high quality lens. A couple of years later, Woz called me, all excited, and asked me to help him purchase a new Canon camera he had heard about. It was the 10D. We played with that camera, and I have been a Canon user ever since.

Q: Shortly, you will be heading off to Rio to cover your 5^th Olympics for Team USA. How did you become involved with Team USA?

A: When I was at Lexar, I was managing a team of support people in the press center of the Olympics in Beijing. I saw what these photographers were capturing and thought “I need to do that!” After many years of working my contacts, I was able to convince them that I could do the job for them. For me, it was not about the money, it was about the life’s experience of taking photos at an event as huge as the Olympics.

Q: Was there an ‘Oh wow, I am doing this!’ moment while shooting your first Olympics?

A: I get this feeling when I arrive at each Olympic city. But then again, I have that feeling right now, and we are still months from the Games. I never take any of this for granted. I have worked really hard for this, but I still feeling damned lucky to do what I do. I think about that every day of the Olympics. I will be exhausted from shooting, editing, posting and blogging each day, but it is such an honor to be there.

Q: Do you have a favorite Olympic sport or event to cover?

A: I love covering all the sports at the Olympics, especially those that are different from what

I shoot here at home. I love the challenge of shooting something new. My primary team to shoot for in the Winter Olympics is USA Hockey. I play the game every week and love and understand that sport.

At the Summer Olympics, my primary team to shoot for is USA Water Polo. That sport is like hockey in the water. It is more challenging than hockey to get great photos, since half of the sport is played under the surface of the water.

At least I don’t have to shoot through bad Plexiglas. Both of these sports are favorites, partially because I get to know the athletes and have a personal connection to their outcome.

Q: What is typical kit you take with you when flying off to cover an Olympics? Does where the games are being held alter what you would include? Conditions in Sochi or even London are much different than Rio, for example.

A: I typically bring 2 Canon 1DX cameras (this time the Mark II) and a Canon 5D Mark III with me. The big cameras for the faster frame rate and the 5D Mark III for taking photos around town. Since Rio is not the safest city, I will likely replace the 5D with a G5x to be less conspicuous when walking outside the Olympic “safe zone”.

For the shooting water polo, I rely on the Canon 200-400mm lens, with the built in teleadaptor. This allows me to shoot wide (200mm) when the athletes are on my side of the pool, but zoom in close to 600mm, when they are on the other side of the pool. I also bring a Canon 70-200mm 2.8 lens for all the close-up sports, a Canon 24-70mm lens, Canon 16-35mm lens and a fish eye lens for wider and more creative shots.

Even though flash is not allowed in any Olympic venue, I do bring a Canon 600 EX-RT flash for the times when I am in the mix zone (where the athletes are interviewed) or outside the Olympic venues. I also rely on the flash when shooting the team parties. For all my post image capture workflow, I bring a MacBook Pro, Lexar cards and readers and a Wacom tablet. All this is transported in my ThinkTank bags.

Q: Shooting such a fast-paced event like the Olympics must bring a unique set of pressures along with the thrills and excitement.  What is your work flow like at the events when there is such a tight window between taking the shot and the whole world wanting to see it?

A: I use the fastest of everything I can get. I will be using the new Canon 1DX Mark II to shoot at fast burst rates, Lexar 3500x CFast cards to clear the buffer quickly, Lexar CFast readers that connect via Thunderbolt 2 to download those 3500x cards at blazing-fast speeds, and a MacBook Pro 15” with an SSD.

Every second counts when I am shooting, editing, retouching and posting with a 15-minute deadline. Before each event, I try to save a couple of seconds by pre-creating a correctly named folder on the computer, and having a script written to move the retouched images to a Dropbox folder where the team can grab them.

Unlike the big agency photographers who have card runners and editors, I am doing everything myself. And after I have done all the workflow, I still make time to write a blog post to share with everyone. The pressure is crazy, but I like it that way.

Q: Los Angeles is currently putting together 2024 Summer Olympics bid.  How do you think the experience of covering the Games in your home state compare to those you have covered in foreign destinations?

A: It would be really strange to photograph the Olympics in my home state, but it would be great. Logistics wise, it would be so nice to arrange everything in an area I know well. It is always difficult to determine press housing locations, transportation and all the other details when you are half a world away from the Games. The 2010 Winter Olympics were in Vancouver which is only a 2-hour flight from San Francisco, and it was really nice to be in the same time zone as home. It is also great when the native language is English, making communications easier. That would be just one less detail to worry about. But, with that said, I love going to a foreign location and interacting with the locals. The energy level is amazing at every Olympics. I guess the excitement is global.

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I will be presenting at PhotoCon this weekend in Los Angeles. Here are the details:

When: Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, May 22, 2016 from 10am to 6pm each day.

Where: The Reef in Downtown Los Angeles

Cost: $10 for 1 day pass or $15 for 2 day pass. Children under 12 free with ticketed adult.

Click here for more information & to buy tickets.

Follow PhotoCon LA on Facebook at Facebook.com/PhotoConLA to keep up to date with news about the event.

100 Day Countdown to the Summer Olympics in Rio!

Today marks the 100 day countdown to the Summer Olympics in Rio and the excitement is growing! I woke up this morning and thought about the last 4 Olympics that I have been lucky enough to photograph. To commemorate today, I decided to post images from opening ceremonies from each of those big days.

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was the first Olympics for me, and one that I will never forget. At that time, I was not able to get "up credentialed" to shoot the opening ceremonies, but I was able to get a premises pass that would let me shoot from outside the Bird's Nest.

Every Olympic year, there is a lot of talk about how the host city is not ready for the Games. Although I have found this to be a lot of hype, there is also some truth to it. I shot this photo of a Chinese man working on the Olympics grounds at midnight, the day before the opening ceremony.

Here is one of my favorite moments from the Beijing Olympics. Having a chance to see and photograph Michael Phelps in many of his competitions, I had a smile from my face for days.

Approximately two years later (2010), I was photographing the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. And this time, I was able to get a ticket into the Opening Ceremonies and experience that for the first time. (Even press have to be ticketed for certain "high impact" events.)  

One part of the Olympic Flame failed to rise from the floor, but I didn't care. It was still beautiful, and made for a good story.

This fish eye shot was one of my favorites from the Vancouver Olympics. I was shooting (and continue to) for USA Hockey in the Winter Games and feel honored to do so. I love watching and playing hockey, so this is very natural for me.

In 2012 I was in London to photograph the Summer Olympics. Here is photo from their Opening Ceremonies. Ever time I look at these photos, it brings back memories for me. I remember having to be in the stadium for 7 hours prior to the start of the ceremony and the many hours of anticipation leading up to the event.

I was sitting in the "head-on" photo position, which save me a clear shot of each team entering the stadium. This photo was one of my favorites from the London Opening Ceremonies, as the home team entered for the first time. I still get chills when I see this.

The Summer Olympics in 2012 was my first time shooting for USA Water Polo and it ended up being an amazing experience. I really enjoy the sport, and more importantly I love the support people at USAWP and the athletes themselves.

Photographically, it was a challenge to get unique shots for the team, but the team was very happy with the results. So much so that we are working together again in Rio.

This photo was one of my favorites from London, because it was the first time I ever photographed a Gold Medal match for "my team". I am hoping that I am in the same situation with both the men's and women's teams this year!

My favorite moment from the London Games happened hours after this photo was taken. After hours of editing and posting for the team and their advertisers, I was invited to the team party. Not as their photographer, but as a part of the team. I remember talking to many of the athletes who told me that they could not wait to get back to the village after each game to log in and see the photos that I had taken. How cool is that?

And then there were the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, where I was once again photographing for USA Hockey as my primary team. For these Opening Ceremonies, I was sitting in a higher position, but still able to zoom in and capture Team USA entering the stadium. Chills once again!

As many of you know, Sochi had a lot of challenges for myself and the other media. But overall, I still think of those Games with fond memories. Heck, I came home with a ton of really crazy stories to share with all of you.

This photo shows one of my favorite moments from the Sochi Olympics when T.J. Oshie was called upon to make one shootout goal after another. It isn't often that I get to see and feel the game when I am shooting, since I am concentrating on getting good photos, in focus and at the peak of action. But this game was incredibly exciting, even for me as I was doing my job.

I took this night shot of the Olympic Flame towards the end of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Being one of the last shots taken at that Olympic Games, It is the perfect transition photo to the next Games.

After years of planning, I am very excited about my upcoming trip to Rio. I am flying there 5 days before the Opening Ceremonies, so that I can shoot and share lots of behind the scenes photographs with all of you!

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Jessica Steffens - Teaching Photography With An Olympic Gold Medalist

It was just a little over a week ago and I was teaching at the WPPI show in Las Vegas. I was asked to present at numerous locations, and shoot portraits on the show floor. As part of that, they wanted my sponsors to provide our own model. Well...heck...I don't know models in Las Vegas, but then a thought occurred to me:. I thought "Instead of having another model dressed in a wedding dress or evening gown, why not bring an Olympic athlete?" So I hopped on Facebook to connect with some of my friends from the USA Water Polo team and decided to team up with Jessica Steffens, silver medalist from the Beijing Olympics and gold medalist from London.

I started shooting with a Canon 24-105 lens, shooting some standard images of Jessica in front of a constant light in a soft box to her left.

To demonstrate narrow depth of field, I grabbed a Sigma 85mm 1.4 lens and shot this image wide open at f/1.4, focusing on the gold medal and diffuser Jessica.

During our dinner conversation the evening before the show opened, Jessica was telling me that the medal had "Aquatics, Water Polo, Women" inscribed on the outer edge of the medal. I had never noticed this before, so we made sure to shoot an image showing this inscription.

I wanted to get that iconic shot of Jessica biting her gold medal. If you look closely, you will notice that she is not actually biting the medal. Since she had let so many people touch the medal, she was a little reluctant to bite it, and rightfully so!

After shooting images on the show floor, we both thought it would be fun to shoot images out by the pool at the MGM hotel. I wanted to get some nice images of Jessica that were more in context with water polo. What better than a pool for a background?

We shot images in the area of the pool which were free of people and lane lines. Since we took these at 4pm, the light was not great. But, the hardest part was getting the shots in between all the people curious to meet Jessica and see the gold medal up close. We decided to delay our dinner plans and shoot some more images close to 6pm to get good evening light.

We photographed in several locations around the pool, but I really wanted the sunlight behind Jessica, so we moved to the farthest point of the pool and shot this. I liked this so much that I asked my good friend, Eddie (from Epson) if he could print a bunch for her to sign the next day of the show. Eddie was amazing and printed a whole stack of 8x10s for her to sign and give away. He also printed some large 13x19 images on canvas that were awesome!

Jessica asked me if I could shoot a nice image of the medal in front of the water. I shot all of these images with the Canon 1DX at full resolution. Check out the clarity of the image up close below).

We then took some images of the medal in the Olympic box. I wanted to angle the box towards me, and since we were at the pool, with lots of empty beer bottles, we used one of those to prop up the case. Thank goodness you can not see that in the final image.

One last shot before dinner, as we were leaving the pool area.

The next day, we were back on the show floor shooting more images. I had Jessica sitting on a stool for all of the first day's photos, so we decided to have her standing for the second day.

Again, focusing on the medal to demonstrate wide aperture shooting and focus technique.

I framed this shot so that I would highlight the gold medal in it's case, but also use the USA on Jessica's shirt as my background.

This last shot was taken by Ken Sklute up on the Canon main stage. It was nice to have a photo of Jessica and I. 

This whole event was a win / win for us. She got a bunch of images, we got to know each other better (since I did not have much face time with the team at the Olympics) and we had a blast. Mostly, I was honored to partner up with such a great person. I think we may have to do this again at the Photo Plus Show in New York in October.

London at Night

I have been back in the United States for a week now and I am finally getting caught up on real life. It is really strange when I am at the Olympics, since it is so all encompassing that I rarely hear about anything outside the Games. Since I was basically doing nothing but shooting, editing, posting blogging and sleeping (well...a little sleep), I had no time to watch TV, surf the Internet, talk to friends...so now I am trying to get caught up.

As part of this catch up process, I am posting the last images from the trip to London. Three nights before I left, I had 20 minutes to head into the Olympic Park and take some night shots of some of the venues.

I started with my home away from home, the water polo venue. I spent many hours in this building, but had never seen the front of it from the outside at night, until this evening.

This is a photo of the basketball venue and the velodrome, taken from one of the bridges. To the left of the image, you can see a large crowd of people who were watching a large monitor showing the games live.

A closer shot of the velodrome and the crowd...

Towards the end of the Olympics, I had just enough time to sneak away for one full evening and shoot images of downtown London.I had arranged press access to the "London Eye" (which is the giant wheel that you see in the image above). This wheel has large capsules, which hold 28 people per, and provides a really nice aerial view of the city. But, since they do not allow tripods, I needed to get clearance to have my own capsule and use a tripod.

This is a view of London, facing towards Canary Wharf, where we were living for the month. You can see some of the amusement park rides at the bottom of the photo.

I took this photo to show some of the city, but also wanted to include one of the capsules in the shot so that you could see what they look like up close. (Photographer tip: I was hoping that the London Eye would stop as they unloaded and loaded each capsule, but that is not the case. The Eye moves slowly, about 30 minutes per full rotation, with people getting on and off while it moves, so there are very few points where it actually stops (usually for wheelchair access...) This means that taking a long exposure photo from the Eye is almost impossible, even with a tripod. Not only is the movement an issue, but all of the glass in the capsule is curved, which means that it is hard to get a shot through the glass without getting light reflections off of the glass.)

Once we got off of the London Eye, I ran down the edge of the Thames River to find a good location for my night shot of the Parliament Building. I wanted to get a shot of this landmark at just the right time of the evening, when I had the dark blue skies (I think it was about 30 minutes after sunset). I shot numerous images from this spot, but liked this one (with a 9 second exposure) with the streaks of light from a large bus on the bridge and a boat in the river.

And then I made my way up to the top of the bridge to get this shot, also using the lights of a passing bus to make this a little more interesting. This photo was taken with a 10 second exposure at ISO 100.

After the traffic had cleared a bit, I played my own game of "Frogger" and dodged traffic to get to the other side of the bridge. I saw that they were projecting images on the river side of the Parliament Building and I wanted to get some shots of that. Because the images were changing rather quickly, I changed the settings on my camera to take this shot with a 6 second exposure, so that I could capture one projected image on the building and not two in the same shot.

This last image was one of my favorites from the evening. I was shooting images of Big Ben from the sidewalk of the bridge, when I noticed these two girls draped in the Union Jacks. They were turned with their backs to me. I took some images of them facing in the other direction, but wanted something better. I introduced myself to them and asked them if I could take their photo. They agreed to be my subjects and we started shooting. I moved them a couple of times, to get them into the light of the nearest street lamp, and then asked them to stay very still during my 2 second exposure. This always looks cool when the subject stays still but everyone else is moving around them. As it turned out, the one girl (sisters) was working at the Main Press Center of the Olympic Park. I gave her my business card and she emailed me a couple of days later, asking for the image, which I sent her for her own memories. A fun image ending a very fun trip.

As it turns out, I will be doing two presentations at B&H Photo (the largest camera store in the world) in New York City on September 5th, and one of those will be on "Night Photography". The other presentation will be on "Sports Photography" on the same day. If you are in the area, sign up and drop on by!