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?
Great Chase !!
Love the Shot !
Thanks for keeping us informed.
I’m gonna go against the grain here and say I wish the shot gave a larger perspective as to just how small the skier is to the jump, the mountain, etc. Don’t get a sense of the scope because everything looks miniaturized, like it’s model of an actual ski jump, skier, etc. If it were perhaps populated with say skiers or snowboarders watching from the ground, truly seeing how small they are compared to the ramp, would help highlight that emotional quality of scale.
Love it ! I really like the gritty B/W look
Love it. Great angle for this shot.
I like the shot, although would have maybe gone with a little less vignette in post myself, but brought out more snow texture with a very mild HDR tonemapping by blending a tonemapped version of the image as a layer above this, at around 15% opacity in Overlay mode. Rockin’ shot, though!