I have a few new Advertising shots in the new 2011 Freeskier Magazine Buyer’s Guide.
Tom Wallisch – Scott USA Ad – 2011 Freeskier Magazine Buyer’s Guide – 2 page spread
Shot in Minneapolis, MN with Level 1 Productions for their new film “Eye Trip“
Nikon D3, Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed, Alien Bees 800, 400, Nikon SB80 DX’s, Pocket Wizard Plus 2 Transcievers
Spy Optics Ad - 2011 Freeskier Magazine Buyer’s Guide – Back Cover – Ahmet Dadali
Scott USA Ad – 2011 Freeskier Magazine Buyer’s Guide – 2 page spread
Shot in Minneapolis, MN with Level 1 Productions for their new film “Eye Trip”
Nikon D3, Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed, Alien Bees 800, 400, Nikon SB80 DX’s, Pocket Wizard Plus 2 Transcievers
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A few weeks before this shot was taken, I was at the exact same spot, shooting on a larger version of this jump with Poor Boyz Productions at Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Oregon. We waited around for about a week for the weather to improve and it just never seemed to get the way we wanted so I bailed out for a few days down to Mammoth Mountain, CA to shoot with Level 1 Productions. A few days later I came back up to Mt. Bachelor to shoot with Rage Films for another park shoot and I got the weather I was hoping for and the shoot went off. It was one of those shoots where I got photos every day that ended up running in a mag somewhere. Needless to say it was a good couple of days with a really fun crew of young up and coming kids.
After shooting on this jump in the morning we took a big break and came back just around 6pm to get going on this again to shoot around sunset. Joe Schuster was one of the only ones that stuck it out about an hour after the last light was on the jump to wait and ski for the sunset photos. I shot this scene with a pretty standard kit of lighting for me on a jump with an Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed with an A-Head, Alien Bees 800, Alien Bees 1600 along with my DIY battery packs with Pocket Wizard Plus 2 transcivers and a Nikon D3 with a Tamron 28-75 f2.8 LD XR Di SP lens.
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I just rolled into Mt. Hood, OR to shoot the Sammy Carlson Invitational. It’s been a few years since I was last here at Mt. Hood, the last time being when I took this photo of Tom Wallisch with Level 1 Productions while shooting for the movie “Turbo”. This shot was taken with a Nikon D70s, Nikon 18-200 f3.5-5.6, Pocket Wizard Plus 2 Transcievers, and Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed pack with an A-head at 1/1000 sec, f5.6, at 60mm.
For those of you wondering how I was able to sync my strobes at 1/1000 of a second, the Nikon D70s’s CCD sensor and electronic shutter allow for this to work at up to 1/1250 of a second using Pocket Wizard Plus, Plus 2, and Multimax transcievers without any adjustments in settings.
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In an effort to keep myself posting more often I’ve started a category of posts on my blog called Quick Pics. I don’t always have time to make a blog post when I’m in the middle of travelling or a really busy cycle of work so I’ve added this section. Just a photo, maybe with a little bit about the photo if I have time. Judging by the traffic response so far, it seems like it’s what everyone wants to see. These photos are going to be completely random personal work, or maybe just a photo I’ve taken in the past that has been published, or maybe one that didn’t get published but I just liked it a lot.
This photo is of Anna Segal about two years ago during a trip we went on to Chile. This shot in particular was at a sunset session in the terrain park in El Colorado, Chile. There are amazing sunsets almost every day out there with all the pollution in the valley of Santiago. Shot at 1/125 sec, f5.6, ISO 100 on a Canon EOS-1D MKII, Canon 70-200 2.8 L IS lens with Alien Bees 800, Alien Bees 400, 3 Nikon SB-80DX speedlights, Pocket Wizard Plus 2 transcivers.
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Phil Casabon jumping in the Catalyst Terrain Park at Copper Mountain, CO while shooting for the Level 1 Productions movie “Refresh”.
Shot with a Nikon D70s and Tamron 28-75 f2.8 LD XR Di SP with Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed and Alien Bees 800 lighting with Pocket Wizard Plus 2 radio transcievers.
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A little while ago Pocket Wizard announced the new v7.5 firmware for their new Multimax units that have the USB port for firmware updates. Included with the new firmware are a few useful features:
- Long and short range mode
- Noise sniffer
- Signal strength meter
- Radio relay (Repeater mode)
Since I just got the new Multimax’s at the tail end of my spring terrain park shoot season I was only able to test out a few of the new features. The signal strength meter is a really good tool for sure to have going, especially in a long range situation which is usually the situations that I’m shooting on the mountain. A lot of time’s I’m shooting with my 70-200mm lens and am pretty far away from my strobes so being able to see what the signal strength is from my Multimax is a good tool to try and pre-determine if I’m wandering out of the radio signal’s range.
The other upgrade I was able to test out was the long range mode. I was shooting photos of freeskiers Simon Dumont, Matt Walker and LJ Strenio sliding an urban rail with Poor Boyz Productions a few weeks ago and started wandering out a bit further from the scene and my lights . As I found my shot I realized I could have a few problems with radio interference with the shot I had setup. My first problem was being surrounded by some steel chainlink fence, my second was not having line of sight to my strobes, the third was laying up against the steel chainlink fence. Too add to this I was laying on the ground so I could get the grass in the foreground and to finish things off I was in an urban environment with power lines directly above me.
I was about 300 feet away, a bit on the middle end of the range of the Multimax’s but with all these factors and radio interference I couldn’t get consistent signal and my strobes were firing a little erratically. Since this was a perfect time to try out the new long distance mode I began sprinting back and fourth between my shooting location and making sure I had everything dialed with the Multimax’s on the three strobes I had setup on the scene. The long range mode worked and in a situation I may not have been able to take the shot I wanted previously, I was able to get the shot I wanted with lighting.
I spoke with some of the people at Pocket Wizard and the reason long range mode works is they slowed down the data rates and increased the error correction. This is supposed to have an impact on the maximum usable shutter speed, however I was able to sync this shot at 1/1000 of a second with my Nikon D40 body. With that being said, I’ll have to do a bit more testing to see at what shutter speed the reliability begins to degrade in long range mode.
Check back later for a more complete review.
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Two years, two covers with Powderhound Magazine. This year it’s Anna Segal at The Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah. I’ve been working with Powderhound Magazine for 4 seasons now, since I started shooting with the Aussies, mainly Anna Segal and Davina Williams. This photo was one I had completely planned out before shooting it. From the angle to the weather, skier, lighting, even the trick I wanted on it. It didn’t completely work out to design, the natural light wasn’t quite as dark as I wanted it to be, however the two inches an hour of snowfall we were getting did work to make the shot look cold and wintry.
This was actually one of the mellower shoots of the season. No film crew, no crew of skiers, just myself and Anna and we were in and out in about an hour. I don’t get to do that very often, to be on a shoot with no film crew, just myself and being able to go wherever I want in order to get the shot I want. It makes work so much easier when I get to do this!
This time of year is always a good pick me up as the magazine publication schedule in Australia and New Zealand is quite a bit earlier with the opposite seasons so I get to see shots published while I’m still shooting during the spring terrain park shoots!
Check out Anna’s website at: http://annasegal.blogspot.com
Check out last year’s cover shot with Max Kusazj at Alta, Utah here.
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After all the activities and hype the day finally came to shoot on the giant Monster claw jump. A radio show, poster signings, shotgunning Monster Energy drinks, entertaining hammered drunk locals, redneck truck stop shopping and a urban handrail session later the time for the big show was finally upon us.
We started the day, again with a Monster shotgun. This time Ian Cosco was the unlucky recipient of a can full of jitters.
The day was pretty mellow as most of the morning was spent with the skiers sessioning the public park with the local crew. My day was spent trying to get the cherry picker all setup next to the jump. It was a pretty interesting experience as the cherry picker isn’t exactly designed to be stable in snow with flat discs at the end of the legs. Myself and one of the cat drivers spent a few hours trying to get things setup right with the cherry picker as it tried to slide down the mountain. Considering I was going to be about 35 feet off the ground in 25mph winds, I wanted that thing to be buried in snow! In the end the cat driver built a flat-ish pad of snow for the cherry picker to sit on and then buried the legs in snow and let it set for a few hours. That made me feel a LOT more at ease.
With the cherry picker dialed we were ready to go, as the sunset drew closer the show finally began.
With the jump shoot and the party night in the bag, Sunday fun day was to follow with a bunch of random and entertaining activities that were planned for us.
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I’m really stoked to let everyone know that I’m a finalist in the 2010 World Ski and Snowboard Festival Pro Photographer Showdown. The WSSF Pro Photographer Showdown is an event I’ve wanted to enter for years but have never come up with the time to enter. This year I made a point to get an entry in and as it happens, I’m in! On April 22 I’ll go up against ski photographers Grant Gunderson and Yves Garneau, Snowboard Photographer Mason Mashon and surf photographers Brian Bielmann and Jeremy Koreski. Each of us will have a nine minute slideshow of our life’s work, so I have to get my slideshow together over the next few days. Needless to say I have a bit of work ahead of me! I’m pretty excited for the contest and to see how I fare vs the other great photographers in the contest.
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