Simple

It's been awhile since I've gotten a super good action sports shot, and awhile as in since the end of summer. Since last winter I've really been limiting myself how I go about shooting snowboarding/skiing. If I'm gonna shoot I want the product to be something different, not the standard, not even a fantastic version of the standard. I mean seriously, how many different ways can you shoot the Schweitzer jumps? Anyone can take a camera into the park and shoot the same jump over the lake angle. Yeah you can maybe bust out the strobes and shoot at sunset but even if you do that aren't you just emulating one of the strobed sunset shots on a mega booter that we see so often in the magazines?

I don't know if my mind frame is helping or hurting me, I do know that I haven't been shooting action sports and I've been shooting way too many landscapes just trying to get something that I haven't seen before. Coming into this weekend I realized that I've been waiting too long for the perfect situation to present itself. Then I saw the cannon box and I said to myself its been to long and its time to make something happen.

So I grabbed everything I had(minus a broken battery pack, thanks to Joe Obrien for helping me deal with extension cords and batteries all evening) and decided it was time to take it back to the basics and create the simplest image I could:

Lighting isn't tech, trick isn't tech, and there isn't any clutter, and I love it! Almost exactly the image I had in my mind. All it is is the feature and an absolutely textbook method, end of story.

I'm excited to shoot again and it feels awesome, keep checking back, the next few weeks should bring something new.