Outside Wheeler Hut
From the holiday collection at http://www.kylefoto.com
It was an epic day of backcountry skiing in the mountains of BC. The higher we climbed the bigger our ski down would be. This is where we made the mistake of not keeping together and not fully monitoring the energy of everyone in the group. We ended up taking much longer than we expected to get down. You have to think of the whole group as one person, and if anyone is tired you must only go at the pace and distance comfortable for them.
This is where being prepared is handy, we had head lamps with us in case we ended up skiing in the night, and that’s just what happened. Lo and behold it was cool to see the skiiers with the lamps on their heads at night and I got someone to pose.
Photographic details: The light was quite dim, so I needed to let in as much light as possible. Shot hand held with a slow shutter speed of 1/30th of a second and f2.8 and a whopping iso of 12800. My camera was now sensitive enough to gather enough light from the lamps and and the last minute of blue hour. Drastic noise reduction was used in Lightroom to compensate for the distortion of using such a high iso but it comes out quite nice!
1/30s f/2.8 ISO12800 35mm
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I've never skied by night, but the idea sounds great, I've beenon a few night hikes and night geocaching. Two things I haven't done are night skiing/snowshoeing and night kayaking (flatwater) but I hope to remidy that soon.
Great shot, you must have been out on skis too.
Yeah! I brought my camera with me, poor thing nearly froze to death but I was glad for all the difficult things that happened. It wouldn't have been as cool without them!
WOW!
beautiful!
The ski conditions look great. Night > flat light in the afternoon. I love snow-caked trees.
linda demais!!!!!!!!!!!!!parabens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The same feeling, so that the picture had been taken in Finland
Nice photos!
Your have quite an impressive collection of images. Thanks to +Jim Davis for introducing you.
+Kyle Marquardt said: "You have to think of the whole group as one person, and if anyone is tired you must only go at the pace and distance comfortable for them." .. absolutely. There's no "middle ground" w/ group trips.
Nice shot.