I met with Rube Goldberg and Kalina Hornsby, two Whistler based pro snowboarders, with the plan of capturing some riding and lifestyle images for a stock shoot for Getty Images. We headed up to the 7th Heaven area at the top of Blackcomb where we ran into a film crew from Warren Miller productions. They had built a massive jump and were shooting snowboarders launching off it as a promo for the 2010 Olympics. We hoped to sneak in a quick session on it between takes, but their location manager said nope.
Then we found a few nice jumps with some clean alpine backgrounds. The temperature was over 20C and Rube and Kalina were sweating, hiking uphill to hit the jumps. They both took direction well and could easily coordinate their moves to maximize background and lighting angles. Although forecast was for sun all day, there were a lot of clouds up there and we shot like mad in the brief windows of sun. By about 2pm, the weather had turned and we were in a blizzard of freezing rain, so the shoot was called off early. Still, we managed to get a few good images and will be back on the slopes next season.
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