Why Is This Kayak Shot Faked? Can You Guess?
Not everything is quite as it seems in this photo. Can you figure out how and why I had to fake this shot?
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Category: Action and Adventure Photography
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Behind the Shot: Moonscape Mountaineer
In this image we’re going to talk about the compositional choices and the post processing techniques that were used to create this image of a mountaineer climbing up a snowy slope in the Tantalus Range of British Columbia.
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Behind the Shot: Just Keep Swimming
For those of you that are following these posts in order, I realize there has been a bit of a gap since the last BTS post. I’m going to try and keep things a little steadier from now on, but I got a bit sidetracked with things like the backpacking gear series....
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Behind the Shot: Snowy Skiing Fisheye
This is a bit of an older photo, but I posted it on Instagram recently and it got a great response so I thought I’d talk about it in the BTS series because it uses a fisheye lens which is definitely one of the more unique types of lens. Equipment Used For This...
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Behind the Shot: First Drop in Alaska
This week we’re going to dissect one of my favourite skiing photos from a trip to Alaska.
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Behind the Shot: Dawn Drifting with Grizzlies
Today we’re going to dissect a shot from a recent kayak expedition to photography grizzly bears. Let’s see why this works and what I used!
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Behind the Shot: Backcountry Big Air
This image was taken on the Pemberton Ice Cap near Whistler in British Columbia, Canada. We accessed the location by snowmobiling out there and it took about an hour to get up here from the car park on the side of the highway. Every year the snowpack forms a...
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Behind the Shot: Nine Queens , Winning Image From Austria
Award Winner – Best Action Image I was invited to Austria to take part in a freeskiing photo competition at the Nine Queens event. Four photographers were chosen to attend and we spent the week shooting the skiing action as sunrise, sunset and night...
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Behind the Shot: Urban Skiing with Coloured Flash Gels
For this nighttime urban skiing photo I decided to use coloured gels to make a more interesting photo. Get all the rest of the gear details in the post.
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Behind the Shot: Urban Storm Skiing
It’s not always about the actual action when you’re on an action sports photoshoot. It’s important to look for the moments in between so that…
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Photo of the week – Yuta Ueno
Important points about a typical action sports photography scenario. These two things are VITAL to the success of any photo involving a jump and a trick – no matter what the sport is.
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