Coast to Coast slideshow added
I just posted a the final edit of Day 2 of the Speight’s Coast to Coast multi-sport race- these are the competitors who cross the South Island of New Zealand in a single day, covering a distance of 243kms!
2010 Coast to Coast Day 2 – Images by Mark Tantrum
Friday night Football Los Gatos vs Homestead Mustangs
I shot the game between Los Gatos High School and the Homestead Mustangs- the second game for both teams. I shot the whole game with the Nikon D700 set to Aperture Priority, with Auto ISO set to have a minimum shutter speed of 1/160th exposure. I tried out the 51 point auto exposure setting – [...]
An evening of Poker
Photos for a fundraiser poker night for the Soldiers Baseball team. The coverage was initiated for an environmental portrait to go with my “Faces of Cancer” series. It turned out I took some photos of the event for the organizers, they are needing some shots for their website.
2009_09 Poker Evening – Images by Mark Tantrum
Art and wine festival at Saratoga
I was lucky enough to get assigned the cover story for the Saratoga News this week. It was to cover the Art and Wine festival called Taste of Saratoga. Its an annual event held in Big Basin Way, the main street in the downtown area.
I started by myself at the bottom of the street, and [...]
Website startup portrait
I was assigned a simple headshot for a gate in the newspapers- an entrepreneur starting up a new community based website, starting with local San Jose suburbs. My brief going in was to capture 2 shots, one at the desk and one with the building as a backdrop. I brought 2 off camera lights and [...]
Santa Clara libraries project
Over the last month, I have been working on a project documenting the 8 libraries, 1 bookmobile and headquarters of the City of Santa Clara. It was certainly a challenging and demanding project, especially in terms of time management. It gave me a chance to get out in the community and really reach out to [...]
Happy accident
I was shooting an assignment for the City of Santa Clara libraries today and happened upon this scene. The little boy and the image of George Washington happened to be both doing a strangely similar thing! This was pure coincidence, I was photographing the family earlier and had their permission and blessing. I was walking [...]
Volleyball shoot #2 – Thursday night 4/2/09
I went with a flash guns a blazing, I took 2 strobes with pocket wizards, and attached up in the rafters of the high school gymnasium.
Saratoga vs Lynbrook boys Varsity Volleyball match 4-1-09
I attended the match and shot for the Saratoga News and Cupertino Courier. The match ended up going to 4 games which meant I shot for almost 2 hours. It meant I had time for plenty of shots- I rattled off about 950 frames during the course of the games. I used the new Nikon [...]
KO Cupertino Courier and Sunnyvale Sun Cover stories – Propo Mini-Z Grand Prix, held March 7 at the Cupertino Square Mall
I have always been interested in racing cars- but not always a fan of radio controlled cars. I had one when I was growing up. Working with my Dad during a trade show, he bought be a hugely expensive offroad RC car which I had for years. I never took it further, until today. In [...]
Campbell Reporter Cover Story published March 13, 2009
On March 6, 2009 I went to downtown Campbell after having my birthday celebration dinner with family to shoot the First Friday Celebration ‘Luck O’ the Irish.’ When I arrived I took this first shot that turned out to be the cover. These two girls stood out as really well dressed in costume from down [...]
Published in San Jose Business Journal
A recent edition of the San Jose Business Journal featured a couple of my shots. Geo week was an amazing fund raising initiative by the students that raised money to Free the Children Fund.
