Here’s the Friday Photo of the Week. Was feeling wintery and I couldn’t help myself. Tell us if you like and why/why not.
Behind the scenes “making of” this shot and the camera/lens/spec details after the jump…
The above shot was created on a Nikon D3, using the Nikkor 24-70mm 2.8 lens (affil links to B&H). Shot at f6.3, 1/1600 sec, ISO 200. The legendary Tanner Hall is the athlete. Location: Stevens Pass, WA.
The behind-the-scenes shot below is how we captured this image. That’s me in the black on the right with my D3s and Todd Jones (TGR) on left in the yellow, shooting the RED camera, hanging outta the helicopter. BTS photo shot by Scotty.
Like or not? Why?
Of course, it’s awesome. Never seen that angle before.
This is a great photo, to me the skier’s shadow looks like a bird about to emerge from the side of the half pipe and take flight…really neat!
hands down shot of the week! love it!
The top shot looks like it was taken on mars. I love it.
I’m going to go against the grain and say, no.
I’ve seen so many ski shots that the one of Tanner Hall looks like a lot of the others. “Skier in air, upside down.”
The second one, the skier merges too much with the helicopter making it difficult to differentiate the two.
Take this into consideration, I’ve worked at a newspaper in a ski resort and had the “pleasure” of shooting the Winter X-Games every year they’ve been at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen.
But I love a lot of your other stuff.
Thats a good point but I would remember that 99.9% of the audience are not photojournalists with extensive ski photography experience. If I could see more ski shots I might agree with your first point, but I haven’t seen so many.