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?
nice pov because not everybody gets to go up in a chopper to get this view. But I’m not gonna say I like it just because you took this shot from a chopper. I prefer a more graphical image by cropping off the tree shadows at the top of the frame leaving 3 very strong elements in the image
Really like it because its different and put mankind in perspective – we are small
//Leif
I like it. Big blocks of space/shapes make a cool symmetry, I like the long shadows, they work with the vignette in framing, awesome snow textures. I like all the big space around the skier. Besides, it looks like a face with a monster underbite. Nice!
In my google reader I saw the photo in a ‘cropped’ 1×1 format as I had to scroll down in order to see the full portrait view. I liked the 1×1 crop I had. Photo is great, I like the black and white conversion. The bottom half of it seems to tone down the action as opposed to had it been in a square crop.
Great as usual 😉
I like as both an abstract and as an awe inspiring view I never get to see (one of the great things I love about photos).
But viscerally, I hunger to see the same view closer in so I can feel the power of it more. It’s almost too abstract this far away.