Life of Bot

Jake Welch on the back cover of Snowboarder Magazine

 

    Here is a shot of Jake Welch launching Backside 180 off this pyramid in St. Paul, Minnesota. When you see the video, you will trip. Kyle McCoy assisted on this one and helped me get the shot. The key to this shot was instead of going back to the hotel to rest, which is what was called for, Jake Welch, Kurt Heine and myself set up the runway and landing so we were good to go in the a.m. Jake had the motivation and even after he had stomped the trick, he was up to doing it over an over again until we got the light on his face just right. He's a true professional.

 

Chaz Chaffee is the man in Minnesota. He's got a big heart and balls of steel. Thanks Chaz for your help and guidance! 

 

Technical info:

 

Canon EOS 1D Mark III - 16-35mm L f/2.8 - (f/5.6 @ 1/1000 @ iso 400)

Two Elinchrom Ranger RX AS packs

In front with 30 degree grid inside of a standard 50 degree reflector, in back with high performance 48 degree reflector and Rosco Gel #854.

Pocket Wizard II's on Packs and mini-ttl on camera.

Sitex Computers: The Photoshop Of the 80s

Love this video, so long ago, this must have been so next level back then.

 

Open Shutter: Andy Wright - Part 1 of 2

One Life - An International Photography Competition

Here's a good opportunity to enter some of your best images and have the chance at some serious prizes. If you do nothing, nothing will surely happen.

Who We Are

We are a world of a infinite stories and unique perspectives. Photography is our way to capture moments as we experience them. The One Life Photography Competition is an opportunity for international amateur and professional photographic communities to share their vision with the world.

Delving into the lives of the global community, Artists Wanted, in partnership with PDN Magazine are asking photographers from all over the world to submit images illustrating their ideas, beliefs, loves, geographies, histories and livelihoods to demonstrate that, with all our differences, we are one community connected through our love of photography.

Everyone has a story - the One Life Photography Competition is your opportunity to show the world your story captured in images...

...Click here to enter

 

KI: Michael Levin

Foursquare: Team Shoot in Mammoth

 

 

Behind the scenes photography by Kyle McCoy

 TEAM SHOOT - DAY 1

Day 1 of shooting for the 2012 ads and website is a wrap. We are shooting action and lifestyle using an old technique called Wet Plate - look it up. More pics from the shoot coming soon.

 

 

Behind the scenes photography by Kyle McCoy

 TEAM SHOOT - DAY 2

Day 2 of shooting for the 2012 ads and website went down with some action and lifestyle shots. Check out that old school camera - we're shooting the entire collection with a precess called Wet Plate. Its pretty rad and the images look off the hook but the process is what really makes these images gems. Stay tuned for more on Wet Plate in the coming months.

 

Behind the scenes photography by Kyle McCoy

TEAM SHOOT - DAY 3

And that's a wrap. Day 3 of shooting Wet Plate photography for the 2012 ads and website is done and here are more of those behind the scenes type images. When you see next years ads you'll get to see the actual wet plate images...stay tuned.

 

 

 

SNOWBOARD MAG - Portfolio: Tim Peare

    Check out my Portfolio and interview on SNOWBOARD MAG

 

Describe your first published photo.
I believe it was the back cover of SNOWBOARD Magazine, January 2006. It's a Mission Six ad for my homie Dirk Dye.

Who/what inspired you to become a photographer?
It happened on a cross country trip with my best friend Scott in 1999. I never really thought about photos or shooting photos before that, but seeing new things made me want to capture it and remember it. I could recognize that it was special and fleeting, and that's the magic of photography.

How has snowboard photography changed over the course of your career?
It's changed a whole bunch. When I decided to go big and get my first pro camera, it was a Nikon F5. The whole game was still shooting film back then. Then it started changing and the industry began questioning, along with the rest of the world, whether digital was good enough. Now, I'm at another cross road. I have accepted digital's place in photography but feel a personal emptiness, so I have began reverting back towards film. I feel there is a balance, not all one way or the other...

 

Read the rest HERE

 

First 8x10

    Here's a scan of my first 8x10 shot and developed. I had tried to take a couple previously but after shootin knew that I had made a critical mistake and so, threw the negs out. This shot is of Ian Ruhter on an outing in Mammoth. I developed it in D-76 for 9 minutes. Once scanned, I imported it into Lightroom and made some adjustments. So stoked, now it's on!

Large format photography

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