Battle of the Year 2011 - The Cyphers

My favourite part of shooting BOTY is to be down in the crowd amongst the B-Boys and B-Girls who have come to see the event. The energy is incredible to have 11,000 breakers all in the same arena from all over the world!! Alot of people who haven't been to Battle of the Year just think it's a show, but over the last 4 years I've seen some nuts battles in the crowd and it's pretty much non stop circles for the whole event. Also the bboys from the participating crews will usually be down battling and breaking in the circles after their shows. If you don't know now you know suckas!!
All photos copyright Zooom / Conan Whitehouse

3d adventures in the forest...

Went for a quick whip out to the forest today with my girl and a bunch of equipment to continue working on the difficult task of shooting 3d forest scenes. There is nothing easy about working on these sort of spots and aside from the fact that it's a 1km walk to the location, once you get there you have to do battle with leeches which will leave you bleeding for hours as we both found out. For these shots I used a 3 light setup of speedlight strobes, one on the ground in each shot and two on stands, the key with a silver reflective umbrella and fill a shoot through umbrella. All attached to PW flex tt5 units. Flash in each shot is manually popped with the mini tt1 in my hand and the cameras set to 1/2 a second exposure triggered using my fingers on each camera and the tt1 between my thumb and forefinger. I opted not to use a synced cable release between the two cameras this time so I could fit them closer together. The result is an image with less 3d pop that's more comfortable to view. To view in 3d you will need to cross your eyes and focus to see a third 3d image appear in between the two others.

Rainforests + Beaches = QLD (in 3d crossview)

Soli and I went down to Natural Arch to do a location scout and took along the 3d camera rig to grab a few pics along the way. Such a great location!!! Cross your eyes to merge the images and view in 3d.

3d crossview

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cross your eyes to see 3d. Blue background light achieved by CTO (full orange) gelling subject strobe and adjusting colour balance to suit. Green by gelling background strobe (behind Soli) to enhance green ambient of carpark lights. Soli did an awesome job as it was freezing and the material was playing up but we got the job done in the end :D

Solifishhhhhieeeeeee

My fiancee has made it downunder so after being away from Aussie for the past 6 months we are now both here for a while. As you could imagine we're super stoked so we celebrated by doing a photoshoot on some slippery rocks with a perilous drop on either side :D Soli did a great job of balancing and making sure I didn't break my leg in 100 places down one of the gaps. Plus she looks super hot!!

Wing - Jinjo Crew / 7 Commandos

Did a quick shoot with Wing (Red Bull BC One Champion 2008 & member of world champion Jinjo Crew) as he was leaving Singapore yesterday. Shot stereoscopic but I'm putting in the 2d and 3d versions as different posts.

R16 Korea World BBoy Championship 2011

Congratulations to JINJO Crew of Korea, world champions for 2011, Hong 10 absolutely killed every round. Big congrats to Taisuke for winning the 1 on 1 event also!!! Every year the battles get more and more hype in Korea and the bboying is beyond next level!!!