New team shooter Simon Markhof joins the Vallerret Photography Gloves team. Simon hails from Bavaria in Germany and first fell in love with photography 2005. Read more to find out how he blends his love for snowboarding with his love of photography.
Voss, a small town in Norway, is the proud host of Ekstremsportveko that takes place every year. Bringing together people from all over the world to compete as both amateurs and pro’s in all disciplines of extreme sports from base jumping to whitewater kayaking, paragliding and even in the middle of summer there is mountain skiing – so, of course, a big air comp is essential.
Bright snowy conditions are hard lighting environments that have the ability to create overexposed compositions with bright highlights and very dark shadows. A flash is a great tool to give your subject some “pop” and separate them from the background.
To get photos published its often about shooting the right person and not just taking the best picture. Sad but true. Obviously, the picture has to be great as well, but I have better pictures that haven’t been published compared to the pics that made ittoprint, partly because the person was well known.
The reason I decided to go to Mammoth was that I was talking to my friend Joakim, and we were both tired of the bad weather and all the stuff we had to do in school, and drifted away to how fun it would be to go skiing somewhere. So we kept talking and as it happened, we settled on Mammoth, CA!
As the saying goes “it’s hard to sore like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys." If you want a sure way to improve your photography then put yourself in an environment with great people. People who can pick your game up and inspire you. If your shooting with better photographers, not only do they make you motivated but you learn a lot as well, even if it’s just silently watching their approach to things. Same goes for the talent, great action shots often requires that the action is great.
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