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6
Jun 10

Self-Portrait “Riding Down”

Riding Down, by far was the best part of the job. Right up next to riding the Gondola down after a long day. There are very few things that come close to the feeling of riding down a mountain on a board. Its a pretty awesome experience to say the least.

Now your probably wondering how I got this photo. Well simple really, you see SharpShooters has photographers all over the mountain. So before we all went up I told Joseph that on my way down I wanted him to snap a couple photos of me along the trees doing some turns. Then I just cropped the image to my liking and there you have it. This is by far one of my favorite images from the “Work on the Mountain” series. I really like the contrast between the whites, blacks and reds. And how could you not love the white aviator sunglasses.

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Trigger man: Joseph

Strobist: Snowy overcast day.

Camera info: Nikon D80 | 70mm-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6 | ƒ/8 | 1/1600th | ISO 400.

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30
May 10

Self-Portrait “Poser”

1..2..Pose!, This is my eight photo in my series of work on the mountain. With this photo I wanted to through down a classic SharpShooter pose, and whats more classic than the scorpion pose. Yeah cheesy I know, but its a big hit with the costumers. Its a pretty versatile pose as well. You see right now I’m doing the tough guy pose with my hands down in front. But if I was a chick I would bring my hands right below my chin (insert awww here). Then if you want to get really complicated you through someone on top of your board laying down. Needless to say it’s near impossible, but its pretty sweet when you can pull it off.

Trigger man: Craig

Strobist: Built in flash

Camera info: Nikon D80 | 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 | ƒ/5.6 | 1/250th.

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26
May 10

Self-Portrait: On the Mountain

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: Built in flash +1.0

Camera info: Nikon D80 | 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 | ƒ/10 | 1/200th.

On the top, here is my seventh photo in my series of work on the mountain. Here is a perfect look into how I spend most my overcast snowy days on top of the mountain. This day in particular was a super slow day as you can see by no one in the background. I thought this photo turned out pretty darn for being one of those hand held my space photos.

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12
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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9
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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