Mark Wallace recently made the Miami stop on his Mark Wallace US Meetup Tour. Held at MAPS Studios, Mark put a wide variety of PocketWizard and related gear through its paces.

Mark posted this on his blog after leaving town, and put together the following clip of highlights from his time in Miami.

Looks like a good and educational time was had by all!

If you’re not doing anything in January, PocketWizard will be co-sponsoring Scarlett Lillian at Photog Retreat 2010. Hop aboard Carnival Cruise Lines and spend an intensive four days with Scarlett as she shares all her photography secrets with you. The reasons you should join her in the Bahamas are myriad. All attendees get over $500 of free products and services, plus a chance to win one of the grand prizes from multiple sponsors.

Scarlett is a longtime friend of PocketWizard, and a fabulous professional wedding photographer. PocketWizard will be giving away MiniTT1’s and FlexTT5’s as door prizes. Don’t miss your chance to win on this exciting educational experience!

Check out a video she made with us at WPPI 2009

Get a preview on all the gear Mark is bringing on the tour. And, tips on packing for air travel and making that 50 lb. limit

Remember – tonight you Miami photogs can hang with Mark for coffee. There’s still a few seats left – register today!

Here is a new video that adeptly explains what to expect on the Mark Wallace US Meetup Tour #mwtour

Aaaaaannd… Mark is welcoming ALL shooters with open arms – including Nikon shooters. It’s a hands-on learning event:

The Miami event is this week! There are some seats left – sign up now. Finally, if Mark isn’t coming to your area, why not vote for it! The city/town with the most votes on Dec. 25th wins!

The location for the Miami Mark Wallace Meetup is announced!

http://mwtour-miami.eventbrite.com/

The Meetup on November 14 is FREE and open to the first 100 people to register. And, err, 25 people have beat you to it!

The Meetup will be held at Mobile Arts Production Services (MAPS) in Studio A. Website

Register now!

Check out the buzz on Twitter

What’s better than a morning spent reading LOLcats? A national Meetup Tour with Mark Wallace chock full o’PocketWizard and get this – it’s free!

Mark recently held a Tweetup at Photo Plus Expo where lucky attendees got to learn and play for free. It was so awesome that Mark is now going on a 8-city tour of the USA.

Miami – Nov 14
Seattle – Nov 21
New York – Dec 5
Los Angeles – Dec 12
Phoenix – Dec 19
Nashville – Jan 11
Atlanta – Jan 23
Mystery City – Jan 30

Guess what? Mark is leaving the last city open so that YOU can vote where the final meetup will be held! Vote now!.

Read more on PocketWizard.com- links for event signups.
And, read more on Mark’s blog.

Here’s a PPC article with behind-the-scenes footage of a recent Tony Donaldson shoot for Curve. Watch how the team brings this successful shoot together. Multiple PocketWizard MultiMax units help Tony get what he’s looking for and quality images the magazine’s readers expect.

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Jason Reed doesn’t have one thing most photographers have: his own Web site. He has no need for one. We see his images every day. Jason Reed has one thing most photographers would trade all their gear for, even for one day. Reed is a seven year veteran of the White House Traveling Pool, and has been shooting for Reuters for twenty years.

Photo by Jason Reed, ©Reuters. Note remote camera with PocketWizard on floor against shrubs.

News photography fans and much of the public will recall some of Reed’s memorable images, such as George W. Bush bumping chests with a new graduate at the Merchant Marine Academy, or Karl Rove rapping at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner, or Barack Obama shedding a tear over the death of his grandmother on the eve of the election he was to win. What really got the attention of photography fans was his “White House Moments: A Time-lapse View,” created after a video editing course got him interested in time-lapse movies. In it, he documents a day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, from the West Wing to the East Room to the Rose Garden to the South Lawn. This is the White House as you’ve never seen it before. 8000 exposures later, PocketWizards proved critical to the project.

Photo by Jason Reed, ©Reuters

“The PocketWizard is something we’ve been using at the White House since they’ve been around,” says Jason. “I use the MultiMAX Transceivers. I can’t imagine working without them. They’re so easy to use. I can put multiple cameras at different angles all on the same frequency and trigger them as either motor drive sequences or using the intervalometer, which are really easy to set up from the menu. You can shoot a picture every three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds, and you can change those settings pretty quickly.”

Photo by Jason Reed, ©Reuters

Australian-born Reed began a Bachelor’s degree in Photography in Sydney. The first day he showed up to discover just one class was unavailable: his photography class. This unfortunate event was the loss of higher education and the gain of the news photography industry. Soon he was able to get a job at Reuters hand-printing color film to 8 x 10 format and loading prints onto analog drum transmitters. That led to some photographer-mentors encouraging his talent, supplementing a two-year technical course in Photography at a local college. Then began Reed’s Forrest Gump-like professional life of being present at world events as they unfolded. In 1994 at age 23, he moved to Hong Kong, which was the Reuters regional headquarters at that time. He served there as an editor and photographer until the handover to China in 1997. Moving on to the new headquarters in Singapore, Reed was dispatched around the region to cover earthquakes, plane crashes, and civil unrest in Asia. From 1999 until 2002 he used Bangkok, Thailand as a base from where he travelled to Pakistan to cover the 2001 war against the Taliban and Indian natural disasters, among other news stories.

Photo by Jason Reed, ©Reuters. Note remote cameras with PocketWizards on floor at right.

Presidential visits to the region drew his interest. President Clinton went to Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Reed lent support to Reuters White House photographers who travelled with the President wherever he went. The young photographer found himself caught up in the energy of being in the entourage of the Leader of the Free World, as the old cliché goes. He dreamed of doing it full-time, and in 2003 a position opened up, and Jason Reed became a Reuters photographer at the White House.

Although situated at the White House, the road didn’t stop calling him. Reed covered the 2004 Bush campaign and he spent the last two years on the road following the Obama campaign to victory from before the Illinois junior Senator’s announcement to run in February of 2007. He finds what he’s learned in the capital is applicable outside it. “Shooting every day at the White House is challenging. You constantly try to find something new. Those skills you take away to any other assignment and look for something new, something you wouldn’t be looking for if you hadn’t worked at the White House. Trying to make things subtly new day after day for years and years teaches you to be a better photographer. The PocketWizard is an extension of that. When I travel to events I see where I can put multiple cameras. I’m always looking for a key moment of a historical event, such as the signing of an important act of Congress, or a bilateral meeting with a foreign head of state. As a photographer you try to find multiple angles of everything. You’re working harder, but the reward is you’re getting more angles, better pictures and better moments. The PocketWizard frees me up to look at different things and execute them really easily.”

Photo by Jason Reed, ©Reuters

Although shooting at the same address, Reed isn’t about to get bored. “History shows us anything can happen at any time,” he says. Occasionally he’ll be photographing the President at a graduation ceremony, looking through the viewfinder for hours at a time, careful to never miss a moment. “If there’s anything this job teaches you, it’s about being ready.”

Photo by Jason Reed, ©Reuters

Photo by Jason Reed, ©Reuters

Reed also has to be ready for other assignments. He covered the last Academy Awards ceremony, and was full of quips pointing out the difference between photographing politicians and celebrities. “They say Washington is Hollywood for ugly people, and Hollywood is Washington for beautiful people,” jokes Reed. “I like to do different events like the Olympics or Formula One races — something different to mix it up.”

Photo by Jason Reed, ©Reuters

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, however, remains the location of his dream job, as it would be for countless photographers around the world. “At the White House, it’s full HMI (hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide) light. There’s a whole group of television lighting technicians dedicated to lighting every event. We’re really blessed with the ability to walk in and shoot an indoor event at 400 ISO at 250ths of a second at f/2.8 or 320ths at f/2.8. It’s fantastic. This is the center of the universe of making things look good.” For this, our leaders and candidates are grateful, and viewers around the world wait for the next click of Jason Reed’s shutter while working at his dream job.

Photo by Jason Reed, ©Reuters

Jason Reed at Reuters

Bush Years: Defining his Presidency

Riding with Obama — A Final Look Back

White House Moments: A Time-lapse View

Reuters Photo Blog

Reuters News Pictures Official Site

Yes, it’s been awhile since the last update and for those that feed off every tidbit of information, we apologize for our silence as we work on the products you are anxiously waiting for.  Here’s what we can tell you today: READ MORE at PocketWizard.com

And in other news, here is a video from Mark Wallace about the new AC5 Soft RF Shield:

The Strobist recently featured Florida shooter Jon M. Fletcher’s portrait of his family enjoying a night launch of the Discovery. Fletcher used PocketWizards to shoot his family after three 30-second exposures without strobes to capture the launch.

©Jon M. Fletcher

http://www.jonmfletcher.com/