Quite a random shoot, especially a commercial shoot for me. The hardest part of this shoot was simply finding the right angle as the people in the photo were elevated in the gondola car, but I needed to shoot it long to bring the buildings and mountains in the background into the shot big enough. We went for a lot of different possibilities including one that would require lighting with an assistant either manevering a boom with a 2 strobes in a soft box down from a lift tower, or having the assistant hanging from the lift tower in a harness with the soft box in his hands with the power pack in a backpack. In the end we came back to the original plan of being there at sunrise (6am) and using a cherry picker to get me about 20′ up to be just below their the level of their feet. Worked out great in the end but definately the most planning I have ever had to do for a single shoot.
