Consulting

Photography Assignments or Consultation:

Roy is available for shoots that might require:

  1. Motion-freezing flash applications – ballistics, water splashes, explosions (from popping champagne corks to gun muzzles, and everything in between)
  2. Remote photography applications – game monitoring, wildlife observation, explosions, demolition
  3. Wildlife applications – stalking and capturing images of elusive nocturnal mammals, reptiles etc.
  4. Though not necessarily apropos of this site, he also does fine art portrait photography (See here)
  5. In fact, he is pretty much up for anything…..

Flash Gear

He owns a wide spectrum of flash gear, from 0.5uS duration EG&G Microflash systems, which are capable of freezing the motion of supersonic projectiles, to the custom VHSF system – a 20uS duration flash with gorgeous soft light, plenty of power, and fast enough to stop any splashes, insects, or whatever. He has a full 6 head set of Fotronix SL-80 high speed flashes (60uS flash duration), and a gamut of hotshoe/hammerhead flashes, from Vivitar 285′s, to Canon 580EX and 580EXII‘s, to a host of Sunpak 544, 555 and 622′s. Then of course, he also has a couple of Metz 60CT4′s with lithium ion battery packs. He also has several Cokin Creative Macro Flashes, along with the Canon MT-24EX Twinlite Macro Speedlite.

For studio work, he has 3 x Paul C. Buff Einstein flash heads and 4 x Paul C. Buff White Lightning Ultras, and a host of light modifiers.

Remote Triggering Gear

About a dozen sets of TrailMastermonitoring systems, an LPA Design WaveSensor, a Mumford Time Machine and a couple of Cognisys-Inc StopShots, all replete with a wide range of sensors. He also uses a couple of custom designed acoustic, laser and infrared triggers.

Consulting and Tutoring:

He also consults and/or tutors in

  1. High speed flash photography
  2. Macro photography
  3. Nocturnal mammal photography
  4. Hummingbird photography
  5. Remote photography
  6. Commercial and Industrial Photography requiring short duration (high speed) imagery.
  7. Simple to advanced photography techniques for wildlife and scientific applications.
  8. High Speed Photographic Flash design

Product Testing and Reviewing

Roy has also been used as a beta-tester for new photographic technologies and equipment. He currently performs this role for Cognisys Inc. and previously performed a research program in conjunction with Canon USA on the behavior of their professional level DSLR sensors and short duration flash.

Photojournalism – particularly wildlife:

Recently, Roy was also asked by the Center of Tropical Research from UCLA to document their research program in the Choco Rainforest of NW Ecuador – one of the top 5 biodiversity hotspots on the planet.

(Roy Dunn)

An adult female Umbrella Bird being fitted with a tracking radio transmitter at the Bilsa Research Station, Choco Rainforest, NW Ecuador.

Workshops:

Roy will be running workshops from his home in Southern California during 2011 on:

  1. Hummingbird Photography using High Speed Flash
  2. Remote Photography Techniques
  3. High Speed Flash Photography

These workshops can be booked online – details are elsewhere on this site.

Feel free to contact Roy with any questions or opportunities