I’ve been a customer of Pictureline in Salt Lake City for 10 years now. It’s really the only camera shop in Utah worth going to if you need any camera gear and need to speak to a sales person that knows anything. So, need to get camera gear in Utah? Go there.
Anyways in the four or so years they have been in the new location on 305 West 700 South in Salt Lake City they have had photos up on the walls changing out every month. I finally got my shit together and got a few of my photos in to them to put up, and it’s really awesome seeing your work that big. The three prints are HUGE.
So, if you are in Salt Lake City go check the prints out. There are also four prints over in their second location in Draper, UT at177 West 12300 South.
The photos are ski action shots of Tanner Hall, Kyler Cooley, Julian Carr and Derek Spong and will be up until February 28th.
The lovely people over at espn.com/action had me do a pre-season jib gallery back in late October working with some of the younger crew out here in Utah. From lift terminal rails at Alta to backflip jumps on snowmaking piles at Deer Valley the pre-season mini-shred is on. It was a ton of fun to go out and make some small features of no real consequence look cool. It’s great to work in simply a fun environment, free of the gnar factor sometimes. Add into the fact that my lighting was pretty simple in these, usually just a few Nikon SB80 DX’s, an Alien Bees 800 and a Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed with the ol A-Head. Of course, add in a pile of Pocket Wizard Flex TT5’s
This photo was one hell of a production to pull off. Last April in the midst of the biggest storm cycle the Wasatch Mountains has EVER seen on record Julian Carr brought up the idea of shooting some cliffs at Brighton at night. We were fortunate enough to get some help from Brighton Resort to get a last chair up so we could wait for the sun to go down in a nice and toasty lift shack. I hadn’t shot night cliffs before. I was super stoked to try it out but it was a bit of trial and error but fortunately I had Austin Holt out to assist me on the shoot. There was no way I could have pulled this shot off without an assistant. All three of us went out each with a pretty loaded backpack of photo gear and were out there for four and a half hours with help, we probably would have been out till 2AM without help and who knows how that would have gone either!
This is one of the more unique shots I’ve taken, and although I rolled with my style of using gels, I got to do it a bit differently this year and I hope everyone digs it as much as I do.
The gear I used to put this together was quite the laundry list.
Now I don’t normally talk about something like a headlamp used for a shoot, however in this situation with the night shots, they are pretty important. The Black Diamond Icon is a really powerful headlamp that is very necessary out in this kind of situation. A normal LED one just won’t do. It’s really nuts how much light the Icon puts out.
Another making of the photo, I guess it’s pretty popular now huh?
This one is a bit different though, it’s a video with some of the action footage as well as an interview with the skier, Matt Walker. This was straight up video game shit. Sliding a lift cable. It’s one of those things I’ve wanted to shoot forever and figured it would never happen. Fortunately for me, I work with Pete Alport at Poor Boyz Productions. Pete likes to come up with crazy shit for pro skiers to do. This video was put together by Salomon as part of their Freeski TV series.
I got to shoot a few portraits of Tom Wallisch and Dash Longe a week ago for the www.espn.com/action website with a Halloween theme that was pretty fun. It’s been good doing portrait shoots lately with a concept and theme, it’s let me get a little further these days with my portrait work. I was lucky enough to have a crazy Halloween set all ready for me to use in Dash’s shot, and experiment with some smoke for Tom’s shot, it was definitely fun.
I did another making of the photo interview with Sam from Powder Magazine for their November 2009 Shooting Gallery monthly feature on their website. This shot is of Derek Spong doing a corked 7 off a hip jump on the Outback side at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon during the filming of “Pretty Good” by Rage Films.
See Suz do a big huge backy off a big cliff. This was another big one for me this year, it’s a first again, the first Freeskier Magazine cover for me so far. I’ve been working with Freeskier since the start of my career, they actually ran my first ski editorial shot a while back. Check it out on newsstands now!
Check out Suzanne Graham ski BASE jumping a 1,000 foot cliff in Alaska for a Japanese music video here and check out her website – www.suzgraham.com
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