A few weeks ago I got to go out and shoot at the 5050 BMX King of the Mountain Best Trick contest at Powder Mountain, Utah. I don’t get to shoot stuff like this very often so it was a treat for me to get out there for something like this. I’ll keep it short, it was a really fun event, the riders threw down and the crowd was great and got into it rather colorfully. See below for that.
Continue reading ’5050 BMX King of the Mountain Best Trick at Powder Mountain, Utah’
I’m up here in Whitefish, Montana for my friend Jena’s wedding and it finally gave me some time to get over into Glacier National Park. As everyone’s told me, this place is amazing. I could spend the next 10 years on the trails and I’d still have so many new places to go. I don’t shoot a ton of scenics, but hiking around with the midget on my back (camera pack) I kinda have to. This photo of a wildflower meadow with Reynolds Mountain in the background from the Hidden Lake trail at Logan Pass was taken the day before my D3 went for a swim. RIP D3.
One of the added benefits of shooting with Byron Wells is since he’s from New Zealand and their ski magazines come out in June I get to see my photos in print a lot earlier than waiting 6 months for the photos to run in the ski magazines up in the Northern Hemisphere. This year is no different except Byron’s a bit more prominent in the magazine this time! Apparently the cover has some pretty good detail treatment with a bunch of foil print on the text so I’m pretty excited to see it in person. This is a shot from 2010 in Park City in this little backcountry urban zone as I like to call it that crews have been milking for the past few seasons. The old mining buildings in this zone make for some pretty unique shooting opportunities. This shot has was actually a horizontal shot and was cropped quite a bit to fit the vertical cover. Just about every time I’ve shot urban with Byron, it’s something he hasn’t tried before, but we always end up getting shots. He’s one hard working kid that wants to get shots. Glad Byron finally has a cover shot down there. Check out the original below.
I’m currently at Sun Valley, Idaho where I’ve spent a bit of time over the past few years with the Level 1 and 4Bi9 crews doing some park shoots both in winter, and in the spring after closing. Since I’m here now I thought I’d post some of my favorite shots that didn’t make the cut for the magazines last year. This one is of Ian Cosco during a shoot for Scott Sports & Monster Energy. It’s not as apparent that it’s a shoot for Scott, as it is that Monster was involved with the shape of the jump…haha. I hope you can pick that one up yourself. Look for some more Sun Valley shots from last season to come through over the next few days.
We have a pretty epic view from the hotel room in Tokyo I’ve been staying at for the last four days. Tonight was the best sunset of the four days to say the least. Unfortunately, our crew is leaving tomorrow. I’ll have an update in the next few days.
Just pics this time around. Hope you all like em!
I’m back on the road again for a few weeks so it may be quiet on the front here. Follow me on Twitter to hear random entertaining antics from urban ski trips.
Full Tilt Boots Poster – Tom Wallisch – St. Paul, Minnesota – Level 1 Productions
Line Skis Poster – LJ Strenio – Helena, Montana – Poor Boyz Productions
Line Skis Poster – Will Wesson – Salt Lake City, Utah – Level 1 Productions
Last season was quite the interesting one. It was one not full of a lot of shots due to the low snowpack and just terrible weather in general, however the few good shots I did get last season, I was super pumped on. This was one of them. This feature was the entire reason I went on this trip to Montana to shoot urban with Poor Boyz Productions and Alexis Godbout, Matt Walker, Charles Gagnier and LJ Strenio in tow. Everyone else was doing a lot of spin and tap tricks on this feature but Alexis had something else in mind here. I was running around in circles, changing the lighting setups between everyone else, then Alexis doing his handplant to right 180, completely opposite from the norm.
Like my caption on the ad says, I brought everything I had to this feature. (1) Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed w/A head, (1) Alien Bee 1600, (1) Alien Bee 800, (1) Alien Bee 400, (5) Nikon SB 80DX Speedlights and a pile of Pocket Wizard Plus 2′s and Multimax’s. It was a ton of backlighting with a lot of tricky single speedlight placement throughout that took a lot of trial and error to get it dialed. Fortunately for me, there was a lot of trial and error going on with the skiers to get the trick they wanted, giving me a lot of time to get my lighting dialed as well.
Nikon D3,Tamron 28-75 f2.8 LD XR Di SP lens, Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed, Alien Bees 800, 400, Nikon SB80 DX’s, Pocket Wizard Plus 2 and MultiMaxTranscievers
2011 Powder Magazine Photo Annual Cover – Skier: Kyler Cooley.
Shot during the filming of “Gunnie Season” by 4Bi9 Media
This is the one, this is it. It’s the biggest thing that’s happened to me in my career. It’s the Powder Magazine Photo Annual, and my photo of Kyler Cooley is on the cover! My first Powder cover came last season (see it here) and it was a big deal. A real big deal for me. Literally a childhood dream. Now, a year later there’s another, but it’s on the Photo Annual. It’s the biggest issue of the season for the photographers and honestly it’s something I didn’t really consider ever getting. Needless to say, I’m pretty happy about it! If it doesn’t quite sink in to how happy I am, check this out and it will explain it a bit better.
Day one today! Hopefully it’s something like this!
A few weeks ago I went out to Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, UT to help out Orlando Echeverria on his shoot for Modified Magazine of Aaron Brown’s Mitsubishi Evo 9. Orlando’s shown me a bit with his camera rig shots and has a bit on his blog here of the behind the scenes. As much as I’d love to be shooting my own rig shots, I haven’t committed to the investment of getting a proper rig, as they are quite expensive for me to do that right now!
Anyhoo, I finally got a chance to use some graduated neutral density filters, and take a car portrait out on the track so it was a pretty good day of new things for me. I do have to say, driving my truck on a race track to get out to the shooting location was so so so painful……a truck, on a race track. Yah.
All Content © 2013 Erik Seo - All rights reserved
Subscribe via Email
Subscribe via RSS reader
Follow me on Twitter
Follow me on Facebook
Recent Comments