Well here it is again, another year has come and gone and like the first fall of snow flakes in the alps the Snow and Rock catalogue launch heralds the start of the winter. As I said in my post in March, this year was especially challenging with the poor snow fall over the season. We shot it all in Obergurgl where fresh snow was rather thin on the ground, thankfully some of the brief was urban so as you can see from the shot above we had a ball in an underground car park. The Elinchrom’s where on fire for the ten day shoot, this year we used the Quadra flashes as well as the Rangers, and I have to say they where brilliant.
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This was my first time working for the Ski Club of Great Britain, they had commissioned me to shoot a collection of action and lifestyle pictures for their Fresh Tracks holiday business. They needed shots of their ski leaders guiding on the mountain and the all important apres ski. The snow was definitely challenging to shoot on, but we managed to find some fresh snow high up on the Tignes Glacier. It was hard work but after 3 days we had managed to shoot a good mix of both and everyone was happy with the results. Job done!
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After such an incredibly awful snow season in the French alps this year it was with much trepidation that I ventured into Austria to shoot the Winter 10/11 Snow & Rock catalogue. But to my amazement the snow didn’t seem anywhere near as bad as I had expected. Obergurgl is quite a high resort, admittedly it was a little slushy at the bottom of the mountain, but hike for ten minutes at the top and you could find some descent snow. I took some Elinchrom Quadra flashes with me this year, they worked out a treat and are about half the weight of the RX Rangers, which made the hikes a little easier, but after nine long days of lugging them around they seemed to get a lot heavier. I’ll post some more from this shoot in October after the launch date. As soon as we had finished, I was packed and en route to Tignes via Switzerland.
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Having been brought up on a steady diet of National Geographic Magazines from the early Seventies. I have to say I was pretty pleased to see one of my images, framed by that famous yellow border, gracing the front cover of their Traveller magazine.
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So here we have the new catalogue from Snow + Rock and I am very pleased to say I have the front and back cover. I said in my blog entry in April that I was holding back all of the best images from the shoot until the catalogue was launched. So here are a few of the best images from the shoot. Many thanks to all of the crew from out in Obergurgl and congratulations to Julio and Becky on the cover shot, one of 37 images from that face which they rode perfectly top to bottom, that after an initial 1/2 an hour hike up. I’ve put my favourite from those shots in the slideshow below, Enjoy!
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Outdoor clothing and equipment retailer Mountain Warehouse have just published their Autumn and Winter range, this year they have decided to do two separate catalogues, one for hiking and rambling, and one of ski wear. It seems like a long time ago since we shot the ski images in Alpe d’Huez, so it’s great to see it in print.
Many thanks to Issy, Ben, Peter, Rosanna, Adrian and Lisa Marie for the modeling expertise, and all the Mountain Warehouse crew, it was great fun shooting with them!
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Family in tow I arrived in Alpe d’Huez to shoot the Mountain Warehouse catalogue, the resort had had a huge season with a very deep snowpack which was still being topped up almost every night. We had some pretty good weather for the whole thing, just one afternoon of blizzards, which made a pleasant change. They wanted a mix of ski and snowboard shots with the emphasis on fun. So that’s what we did, went on the mountain and had a good time, it worked a treat. The Woodhall kids also did a fine job of modeling, and predictably where asking to get paid before they had finished the job. We stayed at the Hotel Chamois again and had great food upstairs, and a great time down stairs in the Underground bar. Many thanks to Gareth, Catharine and Adam for their huge support.
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Well it was back to Obergurgl again for the Snow + Rock 10/11 catalogue shoot, and the Austrian weather, incredibly, was even worse than the last 2 years. We had the whole spectrum of conditions over the 9 days from armpit deep slush to bullet proof ice, to knee deep powder. But I suppose it makes for a varied range of pictures. The Nikons just blew me away, it was the first time I’d used them in anger on fast moving subjects and they just nailed it every time, the colours and picture quality are simply amazing. I’ll only put a flavour of the images we shot on this post, the rest can be revealed in October after the launch.
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I went out to shoot some winter walking pictures for Getty a few days ago and really found the weather conditions to be fairly appalling, really just plain old nasty!
I had asked my model Ben to grow a nice big beard for the shots, but we just got so cold and wet we soon packed up and headed for the warmth and a cup of tea. So I decided to eliminate the weather factor and shoot some stock pictures in the studio instead, It worked out fine in the end, gradually losing the beard as we went. We got a little carried away on the original theme but what the hell.
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I had been working with Ben Benson on the last few days of the Consensio job so it only made sense to stay on for a few days longer and shoot some stock for Getty, so we headed for Vallandry hoping for better weather. The next morning was grey, cold and misty, so I headed down to the river to shoot some running water with a 3 stop ND filter, this holds light back and allows for a longer exposures, which gives you that dreamy effect. When I got down to the water there were some outstanding ice formations on the roots and branches so I spent a few hours scrambling up and down the river bank. I managed to get quite a few nice shots, I really like the stillness of ice against the movement of the water. In the afternoon the weather broke a little so we went up to Vallandry and shot some portraits of Ben with some new Salomon and Bolle gear, and a few landscape pictures as there was a superb sunset cranking. Then we packed our bags again and headed south.
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That evening we arrived in Alpe d Huez on only the second day of their season to find the mountain with a reasonable covering of snow. The next morning was beautiful so we headed up to try and get some ski photography done. Although it’s early and the snow can be dodgy I do love the light at this time of year, I call it “blade lighting” it gets really intense after 2pm and the other bonus is you don’t have to wait long for the sunset. When the snow isn’t the best I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve to make things look a little better, so the use of wide angles, flash, slow shutters speeds and tight detail was the order of the day. Considering what we had to work with we didn’t do too badly. The next morning we where on our way home…job done.
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