On 1 Feb 2014, at 16:56, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > > Hi Everyone: > > If you were to do a photo shoot of a ski outting, what might be your kit, > preparation and strategy, and safety issues? Obviously, a photographer > wouldn’t want to just wait at the bottom of the hill for shots of folks > coming down the hill. How would you keep your kit safe when maneuvering > along the hill? > > Any tips and strategies from any PDML Skier-Photogs? > > I’m not planning a ski shoot this season, but maybe next season.
I went skiing a few years ago with one of my brothers and his family, who are very good skiers. It's the only time I've skiied. It was the film era and I was using a Contax with Zeiss lenses. When I was skiing I left them at my brother's house - I had no wish to have that stuff on me while skiing, it was likely to be dangerous. On some days I didn't ski, and took the camera kit in a Domke F-2, went up the ski lift with them and found some spots where I could get different views of them on the way down, them some shots of one of my nephews boarding. I took a full range of lenses, from a 300mm to a 21mm. I took incident light readings with my hand shading the underside of the meter so that the snow would come out right. Here's a page I've just put up. Low-res scans to CD. http://www.web-options.com/Skiing/ The best shot is the one of my nephew jumping off a low bank - that's with a 21mm lens (35mm camera). Most of the shots are very samey, although I expect someone with more experience would much better. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
