Trail Running Take 2

For our second trail running shoot Hil, Anne and I headed up to Lake Fork trail outside of Red Lodge to attempt to run (and take pictures) in snowshoes.

For this picture my camera was in landscape mode with the flash on full power and f-stop of 4.0 and a shutter speed of 1/400 sec. I was hoping that the flash would light Hil up, but keep the background darker, but it didn't work as well as I had hoped. I did like the contrast between the red jacket and dark trees though.

This picture was taken on the same settings and at the same location, but I let Hil get closer to me. I wanted to get a shot that didn't have the subject right in the middle of the frame. I like the effect, except the background snow is overexposed and she's looking down (which was better than her looking at me and falling over).



By the time we moved on the sun had disappeared for good and we had moved back into the trees, which made lighting even more difficult. For this picture I switched my camera into manual and had an f-stop of 4.0 and a shutter speed of 1/500 sec and the flash set to full power. I still wanted the lit up subject with a darker background, but I was also trying to play with the angles of Anne, the bridge and the trees in the background. I like how the diagonals worked, but Anne is not as bright as I would have liked.












This photo was taken with the camera set to manual, the f-stop at 4.0, the shutter speed at 1/160 sec with full flash. It was cropped from part of a larger image that I didn't particularly like, but we had talked about sharpness and blurriness in class, and I liked the contrast between the one sharp foot and the blurry foot.

Skiing Weekend

Bridger Bowl and Red Lodge Mountain

Friday was $15 lift tickets at Bridger Bowl if you had 3 or more people in your vehicle, so the Outdoor Rec program got a van and took eight of us up for a day of skiing! Even though the light was pretty flat I decided it was time to start experimenting with my camera. I kept switching back and forth between the landscape, portrait and snow settings.

The snow setting seemed to work best for the action shots, but the lighting on the mountain was always changing too. My next goal was to get some face shots, so I switched back to portrait and annoyed my friends by skiing around them with a camera. Hopefully it was worth it.

At the very end of the day I decided to get artistic and take pictures through my goggles because that's what you actually see when you're skiing. I'm still undecided about how they turned out, but it was fun!

The next day Outdoor Rec went up to the ski team race at Red Lodge, and because it was much colder I didn't take very many pictures outside, but did take this one of Anne frantically trying to activate her hand warmers in Midway Lodge. We did venture back outside and had a great afternoon attempting to land jumps and generally enjoying the snow!