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: ski
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Jan 11
Alpenglow
This morning’s webcam view from the summit cam at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Not my photo necessarily, but I did help position the webcam way back when, so…
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Jan 11
Crag-ulation
Yes, the Crags are my favorite spot to shoot. Hands down, no question. Nice ski patrollers shoot and throw a whole bunch of explosives in all the right spots, just so I can go out and have the best ski times of my life. And afterwards, when it goes sunny and blue? All the stashes are still fatty fat and ready to go. Here’s to many, many more sessions in the Crags, Wyoming USA.
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Skier: AJ Puccia.
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Jan 11
A foot of FRESH
Woke up to 12″ of new snow and clear skies all morning – here are two shots from one of the best ski days in recent memory…
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Dec 10
Everyone has a plan until…
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. -Mike Tyson
Unrelated note: SNOW has been on my mind lately, here are two shots I just re-edited. I’m pretty obsessed with the level of detail you can pull out of the highlight side of the histogram, it really makes the snow feel like it’s alive:
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Aug 10
Poor Boyz Productions : Revolver
Poor Boyz just posted the trailer for their new movie Revolver. As usual, looks pretty ridiculous, but will it be as good as Every Day is a Saturday?
Revolver (Official Trailer) from Poor Boyz Productions on Vimeo.
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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.
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Apr 10
Flashing Lights
With the gift of a late-season storm cycle in Jackson, we went out yesterday to the Crags to try some strobed pow shots.
After an initial Ranger malfunction and subsequent down time, we managed to get shooting. The snow was touchy, and often a lot less soft than it looked from above. There are lots of ski photogs out there shooting with strobes these days, and I promise you, it isn’t an easy task. Lots of wallowing around, test shots, waiting, shot composing, trying to explain exactly what you want the skier to do… And then the execution – you only have one chance to get the shot, no 10 frames/sec to make things easy. Not to mention that it isn’t like a park shoot, where you can just adjust your timing for the next shot – once the pillow is flattened, it’s time to move to the next feature and try again.
In any case, there was a lot to learn for the next time, and a few of the shots turned out pretty good:
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Can’t wait for the next try. Huge thanks to Andy Bardon for assistance and skiers John Beal and James Toth.