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Mar 10

Self-Portrait Day 34|365 Black on Black

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: Background: SB600 with defuser. Main: SB800 with grid on face Hair: SB600 off to right hitting ceiling.

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 50mm ƒ/1.4 | ƒ/3.5 | 1/320th

First things first.. no, I did not have a death in the family. Now thats out of the way this was one of those photos that really evolved from the original idea. It started out with me just standing there in normal clothes because I had no clue what I was really going for. All I knew was what my lighting set up was going to be. After I decided I looked lame with the clothes I was wearing I decided to Bond it up with a suit jacket. Lucky for me I had just the jacket for the shot, in real life it is way to small for me but for a shot like this it worked perfect and looked great! Then I decided to go with the challenge of shooting all black on black, so I grabbed my black shirt and tie. I also learned how to tie a great looking tie from You Tube so thank you You Tube. So now I looked like a stud in my suit I just had to come up with an interesting shot and the normal looking head on wasn’t doing it for me today. So I went with a looking down pose, and I’m glad I did because I love the shadows the grid cast on my face from my hair. Overall I think it turned out pretty good for being a black on black photo. What do you think?

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09
Mar 10

Self-Portrait Day 33|365 The Lift

The Lift is my sixth photo in my series of work on the mountain. It can be by far colder than the Cabriolet when there is a good breeze going. How did me and my trigger man get this photo? Simple we were both just doing our job. I was riding up to my zone at the top of High Meadow and he was down the run shooting action photos. All I had to do was yell down at him to let him know I was coming. When it came to cropping the image I decided to go with a more artistic crop working with the shapes from the lift. I also love the fact that its snowy, it really shows that snow or shine were up there working on the mountain. As for my pose in the photo I decided to mimic what 90% of punks like myself do when riding up and see the camera man below.

Trigger man: Joesph

Strobist: Snowy overcast day.

Camera info: Nikon D80 | 70mm-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6 | ƒ/7.1 | 1/1600th | ISO 400.

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09
Mar 10

Self-Portrait Day 32|365 The Gondola

The Gondola, my fifth photo in my working on the mountain series. Who wouldn’t love a good fifteen minute ride up and down the mountain every day? I know I sure do! It gives me some good down time from standing all day long. I would have to say its my favorite part of working on the mountain..apart from photographing of course.

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: One SB600 on camera.

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 18-35mm ƒ/3.5-4.5 | ƒ/13 | 1/125th.

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09
Mar 10

Self-Portrait Day 31|365 Getting Ready

The locker room, this is my fourth photo into my series of working on the mountain. Here is the place that I go every morning to suit up and get ready to head up on the mountain. I can’t think of any other place that is as hot or as smelly as this locker room. As you can see I started to sweat just taking this photo after being done with work for the day. It was a pretty interesting photo to light because of the space and the idea I had. But it came out great!

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: One SB600 above and to camera right with snoot. Another SB600 to camera left with grid aimed at boot. Last SB800 above to camera right aimed at snowboard.

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 16mm ƒ/2.8 Fisheye | ƒ/7.1 | 1/160th | Triggered with Nikons CLS.

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09
Mar 10

Self-Portrait Day 30|365 Riding the Cabriolet

This is my third image for my series of working on the mountain. This one is all about the cold, frigid ride up from parking to all the shops and hotels at the base of the mountain. There is no better way to wake you up in the morning than to take a nice breezy ride on the Cabriolet at eight in the morning. This is a really cool shot because I normally take hours to get the photograph I’m looking for but in this case I only had a few minutes in the morning. What I had to do was get on the Cabriolet, whip out my tripod, set up my camera, focus and cross my fingers that something would come out. I was only able to get six frames but my excellent timing skills resulted in a good looking pose with another cart passing by. Let me know what you think!

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: Morning sun to camera left.

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 18-35mm ƒ/3.5-4.5 | ƒ/18 | 1/160th

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