Christine, you might give some thought to POV video. GoPros are very easy to
use, have many different mounts (chest, head and helmet) and produce very
good video.
I used mine during my sled dog race and the video came out better than any
stills I could have taken with out stopping.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob W" <p...@web-options.com>
Subject: Re: Question: Skiing and Photography
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
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