TGR just dropped their new trailer for One For the Road. I spy Phantom slow-mos, cable cams, Brain Farm-ish heli scenics, lots of time lapses on motion rigs, and a new crop of riders – Tom Wallnuts, anyone…? Will the movie actually live up to the trailer?
Posts Tagged: backcountry
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Apr 11
A Tiny Day…
It’s closing weekend in Jackson; winter turned suddenly to spring just two days ago and this funny project – which started on a whim as a curious experiment, and quickly got a little out of hand – is finally finished. Hope you enjoy:
Music:
Thomas Newman – Any Other Name
Pink Floyd – Time (Pretty Lights Remix)
More on my influences for the video here.
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Jun 10
Let There Be Light
Here’s a nice comparison showing how different kinds of light can affect a photograph.
I was shooting two winters back with a whole bunch of lights in the Jackson back/sidecountry with snowboarder Don Watkins and skier Andrew Whiteford, and Andrew happened to catch a shot of Don coming off a cliff at nearly the exact same moment that I pressed my shutter. Andrew’s shot captured the scene with the ambient, available light, and my camera captured the scene with the help of three off-camera flashes. Here are the results:
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That’s me in the foreground of the first shot, camera in hand. It was still pretty bright out at that point, but I was hoping to knock down the ambient light and make it the scene look much darker than it actually was. Photography is about light, but it’s more about relative amounts of light. My strobes are a bit brighter than the ambient daylight, so with the right camera settings, they can make it look dark out. Makes sense, right? It took me quite a while to wrap my head around proper flash exposure and how it differs from ambient light photography…
Just a few tech notes – you can’t see any of the lights in the first shot, but the main light is on the right, an Elinchrom Ranger probably at full power. There’s another Ranger up the hill to the left, probably 3/4ish power, and there’s a Sunpak 622 up behind the cliff as a rim light, not sure if that was half or full power. All triggered, of course, by Pocket Wizards. Manual exposure, 1/200 sec, f/13, ISO 100 on a Nikon D300.