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This is the photo blog for Jimmy and Andrea Brokaw. It is a place for us to post photographs that we find interesting or want to share with the world. Anything from professional shots to camera phone quickies may be posted, as long as we think they may be of interest to the world at large.
Photographs posted here may run the range from professional artwork available in the gallery to candid snapshots we find interesting. Some of these photographs may not have model releases, or may not meet quality standards for sale, and thus may not be available. If you have an interest in obtaining a print, contact photo@hedgie.com for more information.
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Action shots
I admit, I don’t consider action shots to be my forte. It’s something I’m working on, however. If I’m going to call myself a ski photographer, I suppose I actually need to be able to take photos of skiers. Really I just want to ski and take photographs of places you can’t get to on foot…
So here are a few images I took on Friday out on Mount Baker. You’ll notice that none are the typical skier shot. I wasn’t too happy with any of my “traditional” shots in the format that ski photos are supposed to use. This surely has something to do with inexperience with the format, but also quite a bit to do with the number of photos I took. There were a number that we acceptable except for a funny facial expression, or a ski out of position, or some other quirk that just made the run unacceptable. I’m guessing that photographs paid to take pictures of skiers have the models take a lot of runs to get a few good shots. In my case I’m taking landscape photographs, and I agree to take a few of the guys with me as a courtesy.
This is RustyKnees telemarking in front of Mount Shuksan as the sun sets behind him. Probably too dark to be a good print, but I like the imagery. Another shot in the same burst series made for a nice B&W image with a very different feel to it:
I had a lot of shots with good snow spray and rooster tails, but as I mentioned before, there was always something that distracted me from the artful snow. The solution was to take the skier’s face out of the frame:
Hopefully that will keep everyone happy until I can go skiing again. Praise Ullr!
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