So with ski movie teaser time comes ski movie DVD box cover time! I’m stoked to get the DVD box cover for Rage Films‘ upcoming movie “Such is Life”. It’s the second year in a row I’ve gotten the box cover with them and both have come at Spring terrain park shoots at one of the places I grew up skiing, Stevens Pass, Washington. I’ve been working Rage Films since the start of my career shooting ski photos and am stoked I got this with them again. The skier is a crazy ski grabbing Canadian, Mike Mertion
If you haven’t already seen the teaser, check it out at www.ragefilms.com
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So on the heels of getting the Rage Films “Such is Life” DVD box cover shot comes the Poor Boyz Productions Jib Jam DVD box cover. Poor Boyz Productions has been doing a spring terrain park shoot at Schweitzer Mountain Resort in Sandpoint, Idaho for the past 2 seasons now and is doing a seperate DVD from their main movie covering the entire shoot. I think it’s going to be pretty cool and of course I’m stoked that my photo is going to be on the box cover.
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First off, can anyone read French? Cause if you can, you should let me know so you can translate this article for me! This was my first feature article outside of North America, running in issue 10 (January) of WeSki magazine in France. I’ve been working with them for 3 years now and it’s been good, they are all about the jib scene. This trip was in January of 2006 with Ahmet Dadali, Mike Hornbeck, Tim Russell, and Rage Films to the Rochester, New York area. It was 100% urban handrails and jibs, and there was a lot of snow. So much snow, it was a super productive and fun trip and was stoked to get something done out on the East Coast.
- seo
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So here’s the 1st cover shot of the 08-09 season from the Southern Hemisphere. Australian & New Zealand Skiing Magazine. Hopefully it won’t be the last of this year. We shall see. I took this photo of Davina Williams at a night pipe shoot with Rage Films at Tamarack Resort in Idaho this February. We fought some bad weather to get this but it seems to have worked out! I had not worked with this magazine before, I guess they like my stuff eh?
So, the bad weather….rain, wind, snow, graupel and generally warm weather. It was tough. I was stoked to be able to do my first night shoot on a closed pipe. I had a lot of ideas that the weather unfortunately wouldn’t allow me to do for the most part but I am stoked for the next time and with what I did get at this shoot.
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So this is the 2nd cover from this log jib from a Level 1 Productions shoot last spring at Copper Mountain, Colorado. I shot this horizontal, and am really glad I shot it with the 1Ds because it’s 11mp and was big enough to still crop to a vertical frame for this! I’m really stoked on this because a lot of work went into this shot, Tom hit this thing in the day, then into the sunset.
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So back to that Level 1 shoot last Spring at Copper Mountain, CO. One of my favorite shots from the shoot at Copper, this one of Mike Hornbeck through the trees. I got to use my D40 on this one just before sunset with a super high sync speed to get the sky and clouds as they were. It was pretty interesting, I had a $1,000 lens on a camera body i bought for $300. I’m pretty sure the lens was bigger than the camera body that little D40 is so tiny!
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For 4FRNT Skis’ company profile in the 2007 Photo Annual issue of Freeskier Magazine was coming up and the guys at 4FRNT came up with the idea of bringing their office to the snow, in Snowbird Mountain Resort’s aerial tram. Matt Sterbenz, Joe Stumpf, Steele Spence gathered up part of the office, loaded up and set up shop in the new pseudo-office. Desks, computers, coffee pots, magazines, posters, skis, boots and anything else you could think of was all setup within the walls of the tram. Let me tell you, an aerial tram is the worst studio environment ever next to a box lined with mirrors! I had to light the interior of the tram in order to balance the exposure of the interior and scene through the windows. Dealing with the reflections from the windows and stainless steel trim inside the tram was a complete nightmare to keep under control, try to avoid shooting inside a tram as a studio. The 4FRNT crew kept the shoot fun, providing entertainment throughout the shoot, keeping it real all morning. Thanks to Laura at Snowbird and the lift crew for making the shoot happen!
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So I ended up designing another poster for my other roomate Jesse Hall. Jesse is going to need posters to sign after he ski BASE jumps off a casino building in Reno, NV for a Warren Miller premiere this coming weekend so he had me design the poster for him. Photos are mine from a shoot of madness last spring while him and Max Kuszaj ski BASE jumped the Hellgate cliff between Alta and Snowbird with Helicopters flying around filming them.
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So this was quite the last minute project. Leki Ski Poles wanted to do a poster of Max Kuszaj but it needed to be designed in a day. Fortunately they gave us free reign to make a poster that Max would be stoked on so Max and I sat down and went to town on it. What started out as a lazy Sunday was turning into an all-night designing and shoooting session. We used one of the shots we took during last ski season (one of the 2 powder days I got to shoot all last season) and decided to add in a giant portrait for the shot so we ran out in the backyard and fired up a quick portrait to make Max look like a badass. I’m pretty stoked with how it turned out, I hadn’t done any design work in a while. I’ve done a few posters but this one was the best one I’ve done by far. We started coming up with the design concept at 10pm and just finished in time for the first thing in the morning East-coast deadline. Just in the nick of time, Eight and a half hours later the poster is designed and prepped for print.
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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.
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