ReCap

Its been ages since I updated my 4th year 'work' blogs, I have been blogging on my more personal blog however, showing some of my rescent winter adventures. Influence wise I have been looking at a bunch of photographers: http://www.chrisorwig.com/ http://www.royarden.com/ to name a few and looking into the more comercial side of photography, magazines and various publications trying to figure out what direction I want to take after I graduate this year.

I have a good selection of fresh photos from a snowboarding trip that I am in the process of getting out there to magazines, websites etc. to see if they are interested in publishing any. Before my latest snowboarding trip to Temple Basin with 9 friends I purchased an infrared flash slave trigger set with 2 receivers so I can now take photos and place flashes where ever I want (within 30 metres). Its alot of fun I tried it on a few snowboarding jumps, heres a preview of what can be acheived:

This is a photo of Phil Dominick and with assistaince from Riley Elliott (holding the flash) I stood back from the jump and took the photo at about 1/30 of a second to get some of the mountains in the background. I like this photo because it has 3 different light sources: 1) the flash pointing at the snowboarder. 2) the light coming out of the Hut to the left 3) the last remaining natural light from beyond the mountains in the distance. It isn't exactly a huge knarly jump but it is styley and unique. I think another flash to the right of Phil would have made it a bit better, and a tripod would have helped, it was quite a rushed shot.




This was my first attempt with the flash on a low light day where I wanted to bring out the skiier (Mark Von Roy) from the background. It worked well but I definitly should have had the flash more hidden maybe behind the saw horse. Its all part of the learning.