Laura & Greg Sneak Peek!

Here are a few images from Laura and Greg's wedding on May 1st.  What an amazing wedding and beautiful day.  The weather was perfect and Laura and Greg were incredible to work with.  I can't wait to show all the highlights in a slideshow!  

Thank You so much Laura and Greg!  Enjoy your honeymoon!... and I hope the weather is just like it was on your wedding day!

Madison Little League Opening Day

Saturday was opening day for Madison Little League and it was a perfect sunny day!  There was music playing, hot dogs cooking, infield dirt flying, and hundreds of kids decked out in their new jerseys running around and throwing the baseball.  It was an awesome sight to see. 

This league has always been a big part of my life.  I have always loved baseball and I'll never forget my Little League experience.  This year I will be the Madison Little League Photographer.  I am very excited to capture some of the special moments that I experienced many years ago.

I just want to write a quick thanks to my dad who coached me for so many years.  Growing up, he had probably thrown me a million batting practice pitches, hit another million fly-balls at me, and coached me throughout most of my little league career.  Thanks Dad!

Good Luck Little Leaguers!  Play hard! Thank your coaches and umps! Have fun!

To view more images from opening day, Click here

Bike Shot Lighting

I received a few questions about the lighting in my recent bike image photography.  Hope this helps:

This is the lighting set up for the first two muddy bike images below:

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The other day I was able to photograph an entire fox family.... mom, pops, and three babies (about two weeks old).  Thanks to the Brucher family! who gave me a call and let me know about this Discovery-Channel-like experience in their backyard.  I hung out in their pool area and captured a little of the fox family action.  It was quite a show until the dog came into the picture.  Here is what I got.

More Images from Root 66 Race Series

Here are some more images from the root 66 bike race:

My First Film

Coppolaphotography Root 66 XC Race Series: Hopbrook Dam from Adam Coppola on Vimeo.

Here is my first film using the canon 5D mkII. I'm actually a lot more excited about the photography in the film than the film itself. Check out the lighting in the pics.

Root 66 Race Series: Hop Brook Dam

I traveled to Middlebury, CT today to photograph a bike race. Challenged myself to get creative with off camera speedlites. Here are a few. More to come.

Photographing my Bro for Shore Publishing

Shore Publishing assigned me to shoot an author talk and book signing at RJ Julia's bookstore in madison. Who was the Author?.... My Bro!!!, Dr. Chris Coppola. He spoke about his book "Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq" The book is all about his experience being an Air Force pediatric surgeon in Iraq. He is an amazing person and an incredible role model for me. I strongly recommend his book; it will give you a new perspective to the experiences of a family man in Iraq. Check out the book website:

Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq

Chris reading a passage from the book

Signing many books

Meredith (Chris' wife), My Bro, and My Mom

Ice Climbers in NH

Happy New Year!... I know its been 2010 for almost a month now but I just wanted to tell you about my big new years resolution. I realize that following blogs of the photographers that I look up to is one of my favorite ways to learn and gain inspiration. My hope is that I too can provide that for a photographer or two. So one of my New Year's resolutions is to blog, blog, blog. Minimum one blog per month. I hope that I can help to teach and or inspire another photographer with my blog.

Christy and I spent this past weekend in New Hampshire with a bunch of my Providence College buddies... It was a blast. Before we began the trip home, Christy and I stopped at a park right down the street from my friends house. I've passed this park several times and frequently look up at the cliffs to spot the ice climbers. We decided to stop and watch. Here is what I captured.

A few tips for shooting ICE Climbing

-If you are shooting Aperture priority (Av) or Shutter Pritority (Tv), out-smart your camera!... Over expose about 1 stop. The camera wants to expose for middle gray on the ice. Over-expose the wall until the ice begins to blow-out and then back-off 1/3 stop. Once you've got the exposure set... I recommend switching to Manual dailing in and then firing away. This rule can work for shooting anything in snow/ice/or bright white. Do the opposite when photographing something black.

-Get Close to the wall but watch-out for falling ice chunks. Next time I'm bringing my snowboarding helmet.

-Play around with angles. if you tilt the camera certain ways the climb will look twice as intense. Don't get too carried away or else your viewers will wonder why the ice and trees are growing sideways and the climber is relaxed while cliffhanging.

A big thanks to the climbers I met that day... They were great people! Within a half hour they were sharing their gorpum, trying to get Christy and I on the ice with their gear, and inviting us to future trips. Thanks for being so friendly.

Here are some of the shots I got. I wish I took a few more shots of the details; close ups of the cramp-ons, axes, carribeaners, rope, ice... there was soo much to photograph.