Awhile back I did a photoshoot with a friend I met at school, Rob Cronin. Rob is the head photographer at faultine.tv, a Vancouver based media company, and has done a lot of work in the mountain biking industry. I wanted to try out some mountain biking photography with my lights so I asked Rob if he would be my willing subject, and we set a date. I packed up a few of my Einsteins into my 70L Arcteryx backpack, and with the help of a couple other friends, we hiked a little ways up Mt Fromme early one morning.
It was much more of a challenge than I was expecting and I learned a lot. Besides the uneven ground to place lights on, scrambling through bushes, and bat-sized moquitoes, one of the biggest challenges for me was working with the large contrast ratio the forest lighting. The difference between the shadowed forest and the bright patches of dappled sunlight was difficult to balance in order to not blow out the highlight detail, but at the same time not have the rest of the forest look completely dark.
Overall, it was a lot of fun experimenting and here’s a few of the photos I got out of it.
