A few weeks before this shot was taken, I was at the exact same spot, shooting on a larger version of this jump with Poor Boyz Productions at Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Oregon. We waited around for about a week for the weather to improve and it just never seemed to get the way we wanted so I bailed out for a few days down to Mammoth Mountain, CA to shoot with Level 1 Productions. A few days later I came back up to Mt. Bachelor to shoot with Rage Films for another park shoot and I got the weather I was hoping for and the shoot went off. It was one of those shoots where I got photos every day that ended up running in a mag somewhere. Needless to say it was a good couple of days with a really fun crew of young up and coming kids.
After shooting on this jump in the morning we took a big break and came back just around 6pm to get going on this again to shoot around sunset. Joe Schuster was one of the only ones that stuck it out about an hour after the last light was on the jump to wait and ski for the sunset photos. I shot this scene with a pretty standard kit of lighting for me on a jump with an Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed with an A-Head, Alien Bees 800, Alien Bees 1600 along with my DIY battery packs with Pocket Wizard Plus 2 transcivers and a Nikon D3 with a Tamron 28-75 f2.8 LD XR Di SP lens.
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Aside from the main light, directly behind the kicker pointed at the skier, where abouts are the other two strobes? I’m self learning how to do evening kicker shoots and would really appreciate any advice!