Shutter Showdown the photography madness weekend

With the weather holding off and the shooters banging out their edits, the final results where.

Category: Black and white.  (Photos below)

1^st – Martin Bjørqkvist

2^nd – Lukas Riedl

3^rd – Rickard Croy

Category: Creative.    (Photos below)

1^st – Rickard Croy

2^nd – Simon Markhof

3^rd – Lukas Riedl

Category: Lifestyle.    (Photos below)

1^st – Rickard Croy

2^nd – Lukas Riedl

3^rd – Martin Bjørkqvist

Category: Sequence.    (Photos below)

1^st – Simon Markhof

2^nd – Rickard Croy

3^rd – Martin Bjorqkvist

Winning Team: Rickard Croy

Overall Photo of the Day: Rickard Croy   (photo below)

Just being around super excited and even more talented photographers for a weekend, enhanced our photography skills. Each day in general conversation there were value bombs by Vernon Deck, the pro Volcom snowboard photographer. Just watching other photographers work the scene, come up with new compositions and angles fuelled creativity and improvement. It’s true what they say, to be great you need to surround yourself with great people. Not in the least bit saying I’m great, but I sure picked up my game.

We couldn’t have been more stoked with Vernon Deck and a huge thanks goes out to him for getting involved with the shutter showdown. His knowledge and expertise was soaked up by everyone, and with photography aside it was just fun to shred, kick back with a beer or explore the local hotspots.

Freeride photography workshop with Vernon Deck.

Best tips from the workshop (of which there were many so perhaps a better title is: Secret tips from a veteran snowboard photographer)

• Prefocus: set your camera focus to an assigned button – not the shutter release
• Set up your camera to shoot in Black and White during overcast days.
• Talk with your rider continuously; check they are all right before checking your shot. Know what trick they are going to throw so you can find the best angle for it, butt shots are exactly that… a butt shot.
• Move and walk the area, a couple meters to either side or up and down can blow your image to the next level.
• No cheating – Photoshop is out if you want to submit photos for publication. You will need to send raw’s in to the magazines not your over edited and dramatized jpg’s. So watch your framing, get the shot as best you can in camera.

What to say? The weekend overall was epic! We are stoked that everyone was stoked. Personally, our photography got a huge bump and we’re invigorated to go shoot even more.

A massive thanks to all the Vallerret Shooters that came and made the weekend what it was. Thanks to Vernon, you’re a legend. Thanks to Voss resort and all the sponsors: Mons Royale, Session board shop Bergen. Sonderud Fotography: Elitefoto Voss, Vossaskjøt for their delicious sausages and all the volunteers for spinning a yarn on the mic and keeping everyone safe during the mayhem.

Be sure to watch out for next years’ Shutter Showdown and come join the fun.

Cheers,

Carl

Team Vallerret.

 Photos from Shutter Showdown