I shot over 230 images as Dawn made her way up the dead vertical ice climb. With the shaded nature of ice climbing, the Hypersync setup was reliably lighting the entire climb all the way to the bottom of the gorge 165 feet (50m) down. “I am constantly amazed at how nice the light quality generated by this metal reflector can be”įor these images, I shot at around 1/1,000 second at either f/5.6 or f/5 at ISO 400 for the entire shoot. I also shot with telephoto, standard and ultra-wide angle lenses so that I had every possible variation. I moved around and shot from various angles above and to the side of the climb from the opposite side of the gorge. Once Dawn and her sister Kristi rappelled into the gorge, it was go time. Having tested out my settings the day before I was able to get near perfect illumination of the ice climb in the first shot. I dialed in the exposure settings by using the histogram on the back of my camera. I set up the flash head and the high performance reflector so that it created a shaft of light on the intended ice climb. I took with me the trusty Elinchrom Ranger RX Speed AS pack and the Ranger S head this time, along with the PocketWizard ControlTL transceivers that make Hypersync possible.Īfter shooting with Dawn in a few different areas of the park, I set up the Ranger and a flash head on the bridge that spans the gorge above the ice climb. I planned another ice climbing shoot with Dawn in the Ouray Ice Park and I was hoping to improve on my previous outing. One of the first thoughts I had was to go back and shoot ice climbing with Dawn, but this time using Hypersync.įast forward a few years, to this January, when I had some free time for another portfolio shoot. Having gotten Hypersync to work reliably, my mind started spinning with ideas for possible shoots.
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