Aspen Powder Shots

[surfoxy]

Well, Snowmass mostly, but...sure was fun. Annual ski trip with my buds from back in our ski bum days. 10 of us moved out to Colorado to ski in 1985 -1986, only 3 of us are still cranking the turns. Had a blast!















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Chris
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[Pelleplutt]

Love these! Especially 1 and 3. Makes me Jealous, and I skied a week ago (not a lot of pow, though).

 

[surfoxy]

Love these! Especially 1 and 3. Makes me Jealous, and I skied a week ago (not a lot of pow, though).

Thank you, much appreciated. Agree on 1 and 3. We sure did luck out with the conditions! The day before would have been better for photos, but we were too busy skiing the untracked!

 

[scokill]

Outstanding photos!

 

[surfoxy]

Outstanding photos!

Thanks! Much appreciated.

 

[nipprdog]

Nice pics! My only suggestion would be open your aperture to 2.8 or 3.2 to blur the background and make the skiers pop.

 

[surfoxy]

Nice pics! My only suggestion would be open your aperture to 2.8 or 3.2 to blur the background and make the skiers pop.

Thanks! Yes, agree with that. Would have been good to play around a bit more with varying DOF. Some backgrounds I like but some would be way better as you suggest.
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[scokill]

Nice pics! My only suggestion would be open your aperture to 2.8 or 3.2 to blur the background and make the skiers pop.

Likely over-exposed at f2.8. Max mechanical shutter speed is 1/8000. Exposure ranges from f8-f11 1/2500-1/3200. ISO 500-1600 other than the still at ISO 2000. f2.8 is 4 more stops of light from f11. About 3 stops max on some on lowering the ISO and you lower 1 stop raising the shutter speed. I guess you could gain some shutter speed to 1/16000 with electronic shutter but I'm not familiar enough to know effects of electronic shutter on this type of shot. Either way, there might be very little leeway on overexposure.

 

[surfoxy]

Nice pics! My only suggestion would be open your aperture to 2.8 or 3.2 to blur the background and make the skiers pop.

Likely over-exposed at f2.8. Max mechanical shutter speed is 1/8000. Exposure ranges from f8-f11 1/2500-1/3200. ISO 500-1600 other than the still at ISO 2000. f2.8 is 4 more stops of light from f11. About 3 stops max on some on lowering the ISO and you lower 1 stop raising the shutter speed. I guess you could gain some shutter speed to 1/16000 with electronic shutter but I'm not familiar enough to know effects of electronic shutter on this type of shot. Either way, there might be very little leeway on overexposure.

Thanks for the comments!

With the A9ii I do have the leeway with up to 1/32000. At that speed and 100 ISO, it would be exposed about 1/3 of a stop less than the original at 2.8. Which is probably fine as I lifted the exposure about 1/2 a stop in post to get this look, so your suggestion of 1/16000 probably makes. But yeah, it's close and not a ton of leeway. Could also use an ND filter if I really wanted to get less DOF, but I think I'll play around with what I can do at 2.8 - 4.

I think the high-level feedback to open the aperture wider and blur the background more is good feedback for many of these shots. Less noise in every case, and a better look in many cases. Even f/4 would be much better than f/11 in some of these images. In at least one of the others, I like the cliff bands being in focus.

As an aside, I have never used the mechanical shutter on the a9ii other than to confirm it works, it's all about electronic shutter.

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[Colorado4X4]

Amazing shots. I really like these!

 

[surfoxy]

Amazing shots. I really like these!

Thanks so much!