Michael Clark
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Occupation
Photographer
Website
http://www.michaelclarkphoto.com/

Michael Clark

About Me

Michael Clark is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, and mountain bikers in remote locations around the world. He uses unique angles, bold colors, strong graphics and dramatic lighting to capture fleeting moments of passion, gusto, flair and bravado in the outdoors.

Balancing extreme action with subtle details, striking portraits and wild landscapes, he creates images for the editorial, advertising and stock markets worldwide. As a former physicist Michael has worked on both sides of the technical revolution – helping refine the technology and using it for his current profession. Michael has worked as a professional photographer since 1996 and added digital photography to his repertoire in 2003. While Michael still shoots some film, mostly medium format, the lion’s share of his images are now produced with high-resolution digital cameras.

He has been featured in Outdoor Photographer (September 2001), Nikon World Magazine (Summer 2006), New Mexico Magazine (2007) and Rangefinder Magazine (2010) for his work with extreme sports. He contributes to National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Men's Journal, Backpacker, Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro, Climbing, Alpinist, Rock and Ice, Bike Magazine and The New York Times among many others.

A sampling of Michael's advertising clients include Nike, Nikon, Adobe, Red Bull, Patagonia, Propel/Gatorade, Pfizer, DuPont, 20th Century Fox, Black Diamond, Cloudveil, Prana, Arc'teryx, Camelbak, La Sportiva, Gregory Packs, and Butterfield and Robinson.

Photo (c) Eric Barth

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    You are right - He must have just updated that page. Will is the man when it comes to color management so if he has tested them and puts his stamp of approval on it I would trust that.

My Books

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Professional Photographer's Workflow

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Professional Photographer's Workflow

Need a cutting edge digital workflow? Curious about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and how it can speed up your digital workflow?

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Professional Photographer's Workflow, a 353 page e-book, is a workshop in book form. This workflow, while not exhaustive covers the main topics of a shooting workflow then moves into a raw processing workflow with Adobe Lightroom Version 3.2 and Photoshop CS5. This book gets down to the nuts and bolts of a real world workflow. This e-book presents a workflow that can be adapted by any photographer, professional or amateur. I can honestly say that I have not seen any other book on the market today that includes as much detailed and comprehensive information as this e-book does on digital workflow.

As digital photographers we are often called upon to shoot hundreds of images a day then deliver high quality and high resolution images that same afternoon. With the pressures of getting the perfect images for clients we don’t have time to fumble the image processing workflow. Hence, a well thought out digital workflow is a must.

This workflow presents a comprehensive and tested introduction to the digital world from capture to output that photographers can implement step by step. Download this e-book and get a grip on an efficient new workflow.

Click on the Purchase link below for more information on the e-book and to purchase it on my website.

Digital Masters: Adventure Photography: Capturing the World of Outdoor Sports

Digital Masters: Adventure Photography: Capturing the World of Outdoor Sports

Digital Masters goes extreme! This beautifully produced guide by Michael Clark is the newest entry in the series, as well as the first book on a fast-growing photographic genre: shooting today’s popular extreme outdoor sports, from mountain biking and ice climbing to surfing, BASE jumping, and more.

Clark is one of the world’s most respected adventure photographers, and he offers sage advice—gained from years of hard-earned experience—on equipment, techniques, and the specific skills required to get in on the action. Learn to capture fast-moving subjects and deal with harsh conditions and horrible weather—even when you’re hanging from ropes and riggings in a squall. Of special interest is the Portraiture and Lifestyle chapter, which covers increasingly in-demand techniques.

Budding professionals will particularly enjoy Clark’s “Stories from the Field,” chronicling his wildest adventures in the pursuit of the perfect action shot.

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