M&A Photo Group: Assignment #1

Hello M&A! Stoked to see this happen!

About me: My name's Jack, I'm 21, and am graduating from UVM in May. I've been into photography since high school but it really turned into a hobby when I got to college. I mainly shoot landscapes but got pretty into shooting skiing this winter in particular. My next goal is to learn to shoot portraits.

I'd say the photographers that inspire me the most are my friends. Being in college has connected me to so many other photographers and I really enjoy following and learning from their work.

What gets me inspired? Social media is probably the biggest inspiration, for two reasons. The photos on my feeds inspire me to both get out and to replicate them in one way or another. I also use it as an reason to get out on a regular basis. If I haven't posted an Instagram in 2 weeks I know I've been sitting on my ass too much. Other than that, I spend a lot of time outside so being in new places inspires me the most in that aspect.

I shoot on a T3i with an 11-16, 50, and 55-250 for lenses and of course the occasional iPhone shot. Edit with Lightroom.

This shot was from 2014, the first time I hiked up Mansfield (or any mountain) before the lifts started to spin to get my first turns of the season. I was stoked on the shot and it being early November, my skier friends were too.

This one was taken only a month or two ago. It was the first day I ever took my camera in the park to shoot photos (used to take a bit of video) and was really stoked to get a photo I love as much as this my first day.

This was from this winter as well. It's of a good friend of mine and photographer. He really loved the photo which made me like it even more. I generally like to shoot simple compositions and love this one mainly for that reason; it's an unorthodox "big mountain" photo - no powder, no slash, no cliff, etc.

Hello, My name is Trevor McIntyre and I'm a pretty new photographer. I got my first DSLR, a Nikon D7100, last year around February. Right now, since I'm new I still have lots to learn about photography and such. I don't travel a lot since I'm 15 and can't drive yet, but whenever I get the chance to go somewhere new I bring my camera and start looking around for cool things and cool ways to set up pictures. I hope to one day be able to take a picture of even the most boring things, and make them look very interesting, because I'm still pretty bad at composition and that type of stuff. One photographer that inspires me is Matty Matrice. He shoots a lot of motocross and that's what I'm looking to get into. I love taking pics of any extreme sport, but mainly skiing and moto. I also love taking star pictures and would like to get more into portraits and work like that.


What inspires me to take pictures is seeing all of the crazy pictures on Instagram of people doing crazy things. Also, whenever I take a picture and it turns out exactly how i want it, it's one of the best feelings ever, and I can never get enough of it.

As for gear, I'm a total gearwhore. I can guarantee that I don't need nearly as much stuff, but buying camera equipment is addicting and I've drained most of my bank account for it lol.
Canon 7D Mk I, Canon 70-200 f/4L, Tokina 11-16 f/2.8, Sigma 30mm f/1.4, Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM, Helios 44-2 58mm f/2, Panasonic GH4, Metabones EF to m4/3 Speedbooster, and a Panasonic 14-45 f/3.5-5.6 kit lens.
I sold all my Nikon stuff for the GH4 and speedbooster, and then worked and saved up money for a Canon 60D, and then sold that for the 7D.
I work with Adobe Lightroom and Premiere Pro CC


1st pic: I chose this one because it turned out great. I know it looks kinda lame but my friends were super stoked with it, and I think it's pretty dope. If I could've changed one thing it would be to get a little bit of a lower angle so my friend in the air skis don't overlap with the trees in the background. Also the lighting situation was pretty bad, I had to do a lot in Lightroom haha.

2nd pic: My friend was super stoked with how this turned out. He wanted it to look like a massive disaster and it did. In post i wanted it to look like I used a flash, so I warmed up the whole pic and then used the brush to brighten him up a little bit.

3rd pic: This was at our local sledding hill. Me and my two friends brought a few pvc rails over and has a little shred sesh. I like this pic because it shows how much joy a small hill and some pieces of plastic tubing can create. That day he learned k-feds or something like that and he was super stoked.

Thank you guys!

-My name is Lukas I'm 18 living in Regina, SK, Canada and am going to be studying film production in the Fall. I started trying to take good photos around the time i got m first DSLR in grade 8, but I'd say my photo's really started being quality photos in grade 11. I mainly shoot portraits, skateboarding, and architecture/ "street" photos. and I honestly cant think of a photo i've taken of a skier/snowboarder.

-I really get inspired when Im scrolling through Instagram or looking on my suggested feed and see a dope shot, wether its posted by a homie or an account that features photos. basically at that moment no matter where i am i want to go out and shoot or i immediately start thinking of how i could get a similar shot. when i was thinking of what i wanted to go to school for, photo journalism was one of my top choices, but i ended up choosing film. i definitely would love to travel the world and interview people and show more of the world to everyone.

- A quick list of your gear, and editing software. Gear is not everything, but it definitely makes a difference. Knowing this can help us understand how to use certain lenses to get the desired effect.
I shoot with a canon t6s, kit lens, rokinon 8mm fish, 50mm 1.8, old tamron 70-200, and edit photos with Lightroom and or Photoshop

-since I've never shot a ski/snowboard photo or at least one im proud of, here are 3 photos i've taken in the past year or so

1) i'm really proud of this photo cause it was the first photo manipulation i'd done. the photo in the window was taken on a roof when taking photos downtown with my homie chris, that photo itself was sick but i recently mixed it with the photo of my living room and was super stoked.

2) this photo was taken during a little family outing to some walking trails in a valley outside my city. it was one of those photos where you just happen to decide to take a photo and it turns out sick. my brother and his girlfriend were looking at a photo my brother took on his phone that he thought was cool, little did they know i had the better shot lined up. my favourite part of the photo is the texture of my dogs hair, and how threatening the sky looks.

3) i really like this photo because it really shows exactly how ive progressed in photography, and thats just going out and shooting with my friends. in this photo my friend is taking a shot out of the top floor of an "abandoned" building that overlooks downtown regina. i put " 'abandoned' " because there has been a caretaker in the building for the past few years, and it was just sold for a few million and is going to be turned into shops and apartments. it used to be a sears outlet. my favourite part of the photo is the silhouette and the bokeh from the traffic lights and cars below.

Yooooo

I'm Grant Whitty; a 20 year-old Journalism/Media Communications student at Colorado State. I was born and raised in Iowa, and moved out to Colorado for school. I first started getting into photography in 8th grade at my local ski hill back home. Now, I do some photography work for Bloom Outerwear, and some freelance stuff here and there for Newschoolers.

I am currently in a weird spot in ski photography, this last half of this season. All of my camera gear got stolen in February, and I was SOL for over a month. Finally back in action, but unfortunately the season is winding down. It pains me to say that I haven't skied since February, due to my camera getting stolen and a ton of school work. It has been a very challenging school semester to say the least. Got to get that degree though...

For the future, I have some pretty big plans! Already in the process of putting together some big projects for next season, and the following season. I'm working on getting some brands and a magazine on board with my projects!

I really get inspired from some these guys' work: Scott Rickenberger, Jake Dyson, Nick Alegre, and Chris Burkard.

Gear:

Canon 5D Mark IV
Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II
Canon 16-35mm f/4 IS
Sigma 50mm f/1.4 ART

I really like this image because Jossi was trying to get on top of this odd kink-wall on the Dew Tour slope style course the whole day. I was trying to get an interesting angle of this wall, with Jossi on it the whole day. It wasn't until the final run of the competition that Jossi actually got on top of it, and I had an angle I liked.

This is one of my all-time favorite photographs I have made. It was always a dream of mine to meet Tanner, I was stoked because he was really stoked on the photograph. *sheds tear. It is an intense, yet simple photograph at the same time. I think the snow gives it a cool vibe as well.

Another one of my all-time favorites. This was at Level 1 Superunknown XIII last season in Winter Park, Colorado. I think the lighting is what makes the photograph most interesting. Kellan Baker was tossing some nasty spins with some double nose grabs.

Good on ya for following through

First of all this thread is awesome, and I am looking forward to where it heads.

As for me, I feel as if I may be a little different than what I've seen so far. I'm 32, a professional firefighter, part time ski patroller, and don't exactly have aspirations of being some sort of pro photographer. I lived with people who did photography as a living, and I was always in awe when they got a fantastic photo, so I finally decided to jump into it myself.

The majority of my shooting so far has been actions sports, mainly skiing or biking, and some landscape. As a hunter, I'm definitely interested in getting into wildlife. Really, no interest in street photography or studio shooting. Lately, I've become a big fan of Craig Francis (http://www.craigfrancisphoto.com), Adam Baker (http://adambakerphoto.com/), Noah Wetzel (http://www.noahdavidwetzel.com/), and Tony Bynum (https://www.tonybynum.com/).

My Gear is:
Canon T4i
Canon 70-200 2.8
Canon 70-300 4-5.6
Canon 50 1.8
Tamron 17-50 2.8
Tamron 10-24 3.5-4.5
Lightroom 6
Photoshop CC

The vast majority of the photos I take include my girlfriend. She's a great skier and biker, so it makes it pretty easy subject to go out with.

I actually won a photo contest with this photo. It's not anything spectacular, but it gave me a little confidence that someone else liked what I did.

Not skiing, but the type of photography that I would love to get into.

Super excited for this, hopefully it works out to where a consistent group of people contribute every few weeks or so.

My name's Nick. I'm 22 and I've been shooting photos since i was 16. I learned photography shooting Kodak Tri-X and developing and printing my own work. I grew up in Oregon, lived in SLC for three and a half years, and about a year and a half ago I moved to Iowa City (unfortunately). I shot skiing for a little bit when I lived in Utah, but mostly i'd rather just go skiing by myself. I currently have two jobs, both photography related. I work for a local photo lab developing and scanning film and printing from both film and digital files. I have experience printing traditional black and white prints with an enlarger, large format inkjet prints, and digital photochemical or "laser-jet" prints. I recently started shooting for the university newspaper as well.

The photos that inspired me to get into photography was probably the "shooting gallery" section of Powder Magazine as well as the landscape work in NatGeo. Recently I've been inspired by a variety of photographers from a variety of eras including Saul Leiter, Stacy Kranitz, Bruce Gilden (and pretty much every Magnum member really), Margaret-Bourke White, and Mitch Epstein.

In the past I've shot with and owned a variety of Nikon SLRs and DSLRs as well as a Bronica SQ series medium format film. Working at a camera store and photo lab has enabled my gear whore tendencies and I now own way more film cameras then I can shoot. Currently my gear is as follows:

Fujifilm X Pro2 with Fuji 35mm f2, Fuji 56mm f1.2, and Fuji 16mm f1.4 (recently ordered but has not arrived yet)

Fujifilm GW690iii (which is a 6x9cm medium format rangefinder with a fixed 90mm f3.5 lens)

A bunch of other random film cameras on occasion including

Pentax k1000 with 50 f1.4, 28 f2.8, and 135 f3.5
A few canonet QL17s in various states of functionality
Zenit 12XP with helios 44-2 (58mm f2)
Holga 120N (I hate this camera with a passion so its my I don't give a fuck if it breaks camera)

Through both of my jobs I have access to a variety of Canon gear which I do not own but shoot with fairly often, mostly using one camera and lens as a second body along with my X Pro2.

Canon 1DX mkII and Canon 5D mkIII (I use the 5d mkIII the most often, the 1DX is cool but also super heavy and bulky)
16-35 f2.8 L (currently my go to wide angle option), 50 f1.2L, 70-200 f2.8 L, & 300 f2.8 L

I edit with Lightroom and Photoshop CC and scan film on a fuji SP3000, Epson v800, and when I can afford to rent time an Imacon Flextight.

The three photos I chose are form when I lived in Utah, I never really got into shooting skiing, mostly because I'd rather ski myself than take pictures of other people skiing. The first one I like because it was a day with shit snow and shit visibility but we were able to find a small feature and get a decent shot so the day wasn't a total loss.

This one I like because its one of the first hits on lap off Wildcat at Alta that I probably skied a thousand times. I like the Framing, but I do wish I would have filled more of the frame with the skier.

And this last one I like because it was shot with cheap film (Kodak Gold 200) on my K1000. Its probably my favorite ski photo that I have shot (also maybe the last ski photo I've) because it was using a very simple camera and I feel like it captured the quiet mood of that morning really well.

My name is Alex and I'm 19 years old from Toronto. I got into photogra[hy about 3 years ago and have recently started to become more engaged in it. I used to shoot rooftops and a lot of street stuff, but more recently I've enjoyed nature, adventure, lifestyle, and portraits more. My goal is eventually to start doing freelance work to make some money that way.

What keeps me going in photography is that one shot I get every now and then that just fires me up, and reminds me why I spend so much time taking pictures. Doesn't happen often, but the odd time when you look at the screen to preview the last shot and just have that feeling of success... that's what keeps me going.

Gear: Canon t3i, 10-18 4.5-5.6, 50mm 1.8, 55-250 kit lense, Lightroom 6 and Photoshop CC

I haven't had the chance to shoot skiing yet, been stuck in school and only had one day on the hill this year, but I'll stick to the action sports. Here's some BMX.

The first shot was done with a guy I had met earlier that day, and the lighting was perfect so I had him do a few hits on that quarterpipe and moved around trying to frame it properly. When I finished editing it I was so satisfied, felt like a magazine cover or something like that.

Second shot wasn't even supposed to happen, I was taking pictures of another biker in the park but he came in and I hit the shutter without even looking through the viewfinder, and I'm satisfied with how it came out.

The last shot is up there for my favorite shot I've ever taken, recently I've tried playing with light/shadows more, and I felt like it brought the artistic aspects of photography into action sports shooting which was something new to me.

Hey guys! I'm stoked this group got started!

I am 17 years old and I go to school in the South Shore of Massachusetts. I am a "part time" photographer, "full time" filmmaker. When I'm not in school I am filming or taking pictures. I'm hoping to grow filmmaking to a full business but still take photos on the side. My favorite type of photography is definitely lifestyle photography but I still greatly enjoy action sports. In almost all of my work (doesn't matter if its portrait or landscape) I always try to include a person in it in some way because I think it makes the photo so much more interesting. Some photographers that inspire me are Chris Burkard, Grant Whitty, and Rachel Bock, James McGraghan and Riley Harper.

Definitely what gets me inspired the most is prints. When I see a cool print or canvas in a shop or something I get very excited. Obviously, social media gets me excited as well.

Gear: Sony a6000 with Sony 16-50, 28-70, 55-210, Tokina 12-24, Canon 50mm f1.8 and Nikon E-Series 70-210. Almost all of my ski shots are with a Canon 100D because I only just recently switched to Sony. I use lightroom and I often use VSCO film presets. My favorite is Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak TRI-X 400.

This photo is definitely not my favorite of all of these but I thought it was kind of cool because of the way it glows due to the backlighting of the light. It was dumping pow pow that night and I told my friend to slash and when he skied through it it came out as this photo. Shot with Canon 100D and 50mm 1.8 at Sunday River over Winter Break. Settings were 1/400, ISO 1600, f/1.8 at 50mm.

Now this one is definitely my favorite ski photo of all time! Me and Dean Bercovitch were lapping the Momentum park last summer during session 5 just trying to nail some shots but none of them were turning out great due to the timing of the shutter (Slow Canon 100D shutter) and his grabs. After a while, the weather cleared and this photo turned out beautifully! I love the colors and EHeath standing on the left really puts the size of the jump in perspective. Shot with Canon 100D and Tokina 12-24mm. Settings were f/22, ISO 200, 1/400, and the lens was at 12mm.

This is a cool photo, I think, because it shows a lot of Whistler all in one. You can see the mountains in the background, the rope tows, and chairlifts down below and way down below you can see the forest and the lake. It's a photo of my boy Ben Lynch snapped quickly while filming. Shot with Canon 100D and Sigma 18-250mm at 37mm with settings as f/22, 1/400 and ISO 400.

Thanks for setting up this group! I think this will turn out dope and I'm looking forward to the next assignment!

CheddarJack

This one was taken only a month or two ago. It was the first day I ever took my camera in the park to shoot photos (used to take a bit of video) and was really stoked to get a photo I love as much as this my first day.

This one's dope! Especially like how you shot through the trees to get some nice foreground!

grantwhitty

This is one of my all-time favorite photographs I have made. It was always a dream of mine to meet Tanner, I was stoked because he was really stoked on the photograph. *sheds tear. It is an intense, yet simple photograph at the same time. I think the snow gives it a cool vibe as well.

Yo dude this one is sooooo sick! You should keep the account "Faces of Freeskiing" going on Instagram! I loved that account so much!

jblaski

I actually won a photo contest with this photo. It's not anything spectacular, but it gave me a little confidence that someone else liked what I did.

I love this one because it has great composition, great colors and I really love dogs

Ascent_CinemaDefinitely what gets me inspired the most is prints. When I see a cool print or canvas in a shop or something I get very excited

I use lightroom and I often use VSCO film presets. My favorite is Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak TRI-X 400.

I think prints are a tremendously important part of photography and often under appreciated with so much work being easily accessible through social media and the internet. I've learned a ton about photography working with some people who have mastered printmaking.

If you like the look of those presets, I promise you you'll love the look of the real thing even more. If you get a chance to shoot film, Portra and Tri-X are two classic film stocks. I actually know someone who shoots almost exclusively Portra 400 for all of his work and is pretty successful. https://www.instagram.com/barry_phipps/

Any news on assignment #2?

Goonsquad_Prod.Any news on assignment #2?

I've been mad busy lately but if someone wants to suggest ideas or concepts for #2 and/or just do a #2 we could continue with this photo group.

I can post one for you guys, I have plenty of ideas. Let me know.

SklarI can post one for you guys, I have plenty of ideas. Let me know.

Im down

SklarI can post one for you guys, I have plenty of ideas. Let me know.

Send it

Goonsquad_Prod.Im down

grantwhittySend it

Done done.
https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/853039/M-A-Photo-Group--Assignment-2

Hey what's up guys, I know I'm a little late to the game but I'm just gonna go ahead and jump right in here.

My name is Mike and I'm a 25 year old "ski bum" in Jackson Hole. I graduated UVM in 2014 and after a brief stint working and coaching at Sugarloaf ME, I moved west to link up with my older brother in Wyoming and try my hand in some bigger mountains. For the past two years I've been coaching freeride/park + pipe with some 10-12 year old homies and bartending and landscaping to pay the bills. I suffered a pretty devastating ski injury in late April while getting a little too sendy at Alta's infamous Frank Day, so I've turned to photography as a way to keep myself occupied and engaged in something productive during my rehab.

I never considered myself much of a photographer, but my girlfriend's obsession with her Canon 60d has quickly become an obsession of mine. We take it everywhere we go and its a great excuse to get out, chase a sunset, or go on a quick hike when you have a day off. Bringing the camera out on a big backcountry mission is a great way to capture awesome memories with friends. I never planned on being a photographer, but its become a passion of mine that I want to get more involved with.

I also am an aspiring writer with a long term goal of becoming a journalist/novelist. I haven't come close to publishing anything, but I hope to use writing as a way to get out of the service industry while still being able to maintain the lifestyle I love in the mountains. I'm an avid history buff and I love following international affairs, so I'm hoping to be able to segue a start in ski journalism/photography (which hasn't happened yet) into covering some of the pressing issues of our time. Also eyeing a few Masters programs in history, journalism, or poli-sci at Universities where I could continue to pursue skiing, but for now I plan on staying in Jackson and saving $$$ for that purpose.

Currently I've been focusing on landscape and skiing photography, and I've been inspired by hybrid athlete/photographers like Jimmy Chin, Christian Pondella and Chris Burkard. It's also been really cool to see Jamie Walter blow up recently, his photos are great and I'm glad he's been having so much success.

As a result of my injury, I've been plumbing the depths of newschoolers for entertainment at my boring retail job and I stumbled upon Media & Arts while looking for photo/video tips. I've been so impressed with the vast resources here in this forum that I've decided to contribute and get involved. I'm at work and I don't have any original copies or my hard drive so I'm just gonna embed a few grams here as to showcase some of my favorite shots from the past year or so:

Here's a shot I grabbed of my buddy Julien poppin' a lengthy wheelie through some freshies after a quick bootpack up in Teton Pass:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BOfbhKEgrFb/

One of my 6-month old puppy, trying to push myself to use manual mode and experiment with different settings, playing around with depth of field in this one:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTkz9ExgYj3/

Last one is from a recent trip to a golf course here in Jackson that my buddy works at, happened to get out there at the "golden hour" and I loved the reflection of the mountains in the pond:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BU10J8JALZ1/

Sorry, I just re-read the OP after posting and saw that is was supposed to be skiing only photos, my bad. I'll get two more skiing ones off my hard drive when I get home.

Again, sorry for my inability to read the OP and now for the triple post, but I was able to snag a few off Flickr, I had forgotten I had uploaded an album from this season there.

Both of these photos are from an awesome 5 day trip spent living in a yurt in the Idaho Bridger-Teton National forest with 9 awesome friends.

This first one is a great moment I was super stoked to capture. After skinning a few thousand vert to gain the summit of Beard's mountain (for the second time that day), the crew was happy to kick back, soak in some rays, and share a few summit sodas. It was early January, with a super stormy winter already under way, it was some of the first sun any of us had seen in months.

The second one is a shot at the opposing Northwest Ridge of Beard's mountain. The crew split up so we could ski different aspects to mitigate avalanche risk, and it really paid off. Beard's is steep enough to have a bad avalanche reputation, but we were just there at the right time, a few days after the storm when the sun came out. Here Silas, Tyler, Ross, and Chris gain the other ridge to dig a pit and get no movement on their compression test, so they skied the hell out of an awesome wide open line.

What's up guys! Stoked I came across this thread. I'm Chris Goodhue from central Massachusetts. I began filming / taking photos of my brothers / friends skiing in middle school and it's been a hobby every since. The last few years i've really started to fall in love with it again and have been considering pursuing it more professionally. Currently in Bozeman, MT studying Geology, going into my senior ish year.

Filmed alot of skiing this year but really got into to photos more as well. I haven't been shooting alot lately but here's some from the winter.

This was one of my favorites from the season. Terminal Cancer in the Ruby Mountains, really like the composition.

Really love the color in this one. Always an awesome day with the friends on sleds.

Frozen waves!

Looking forward to this!

A/S/L?

29. Male. Melbourne, Australia.

My name is Sean Crosby, I have been swapping hemispheres for the last few years (that rhymed), and I've been taking photos for a long time. Been refining myself for the last few years as I've actually started to get my brain in the game of my compositions rather than just thinking about what looks pretty or something dumb. I do mostly street photos these days, and I have some set rules for myself - no homeless, no photos of other people's art without additional subjects, and always think in tones not colour.

Inspirations? I have a shitload, but I try to get as much for photography as I can from what I see in movies, paintings, and other non-still photography related sources.

Gear.

Digital: D600 with a replaced shutter so it doesn't get all nasty nast.

Film:

And here's for 3 photos.

So a lot of the time, your phone just works out in a pinch. Yeah, it's over edited a bit, but it was what I was going for so fuck it. This is from on top of becks rock entering main chute. Squaw Valley palisades. You can see Siberia chair below, and see just how steep everything is based on that alone. The whole capture I feel details the extremity of the landscape.

(By the way all my skiing stuff ends up black and white) this is a shot coming out of a chute at Remarkables in NZ. I love the swoopy look of the terrain, and crushed the blacks hard to emphasize. Maybe a bit too hard. This was taken with a Lumix LX5. My go to camera when skiing because it weighs nothing and generally does a better job than my phone.

Not skiing, but fuck you.

I'm going for a look with my snowtime photos, and that's to get hyper contrasty, and show the stuff that the snow glare makes invisible to our eye. The structure of everything. This was mostly just fucking off, taking photos during a lull in trail breaking but in editing I just dodged everything to make it as otherworldly as I could.