I've Been Skiing! Many photos from Soll, Austria.

robertgilbert86 · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:06

Hi all, so last week I went skiing and had a really great time. Unfortunately one of our party had a bad crash and had to sit out half the week. But anyway, here are the photos, C+C if you like, please ignore the sensor dirt, I haven't got round to cloning it all out yet! Only a few of these are cropped, yes I know some should have a tighter crop... One more thing, photos are in order of taking.
All photos from my D50 with kit lens and polariser, often with a cheap fisheye attachment (screw on filter thing).

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robertgilbert86 · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:07

6 Infra-red

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8 A bit dark maybe...

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robertgilbert86 · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:07

11 My brother, zooming along

12 Fun with white balance

13 HDR, not totally happy with it yet

14 The first time I've seen a corona around the sun, very nice. Not lens flare!

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Scuzi · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:11

Very Lomographic. Whilst the quality of the pictures is hardly the best I absolutely love them, #4 is my favourite, there's just something about it. Looks like the skis are on the moon or something.

Great shots! :cool:

Zefan · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:12

Some lovely shots there

alexisonfire · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:13

Wow, im absolutely loving all of these, composition and artistic style is right up my street. Very 60's feel going on, with the graininess & colour. That fisheye attachment is great aswell, whats it called?

J1234 · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:24

Lovely shots, like the ones with the fisheyes too.

robertgilbert86 · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:24

Scuzi said:
Very Lomographic. Whilst the quality of the pictures is hardly the best I absolutely love them, #4 is my favourite, there's just something about it. Looks like the skis are on the moon or something.

Great shots!

Thanks, I do like to over-process my pictures, to hell with a natural white balance! The wierd colours on the fisheye come from the massive fringing you get from £35 glass.
I like 4 too, it was just shot from the hip, the soft focus helps it I reckon.

Zefan said:
Some lovely shots there

Cheers!

alexisonfire said:
Wow, im absolutely loving all of these, composition and artistic style is right up my street. Very 60's feel going on, with the graininess & colour. That fisheye attachment is great aswell, whats it called?

Thanks man, I don't think I'd have survived out there without the fisheye, the 18mm kit just wasn't wide enough for the amazing mountains round there, and it makes the action shots bang! One would do well to look on auction sites for 'WIDE ANGLE LENS 0.42x Fisheye'.

BruceLee · 2 Apr 2007 at 15:02

Nice pics, I was in St Moritz Switzerland 2 weeks ago boarding with my brother (well he was trying to ski at least).

The way it worked out I was on my own 95% of the time so not many pics, would have liked some action shots really but maybe next time.

Werent you worried about falling and breaking the camera? I had it pretty padded in my bag but still was always in my mind.

Was great though, nothing like hurtling down a hill at 50mph on a peice of wood to remind you you are alive

I actually like the HDR photo, almost has a "game" type quality to it (ala STALKER maybe)

10 & 9 are good but obv remove the lense from the pic.

Nice overall tho

Colin_da_Killer · 2 Apr 2007 at 18:34

#10 beats them all by miles.

robertgilbert86 · 2 Apr 2007 at 22:15

BruceLee said:
Nice pics, I was in St Moritz Switzerland 2 weeks ago boarding with my brother (well he was trying to ski at least).

The way it worked out I was on my own 95% of the time so not many pics, would have liked some action shots really but maybe next time.

Werent you worried about falling and breaking the camera? I had it pretty padded in my bag but still was always in my mind.

Was great though, nothing like hurtling down a hill at 50mph on a peice of wood to remind you you are alive

I actually like the HDR photo, almost has a "game" type quality to it (ala STALKER maybe)

10 & 9 are good but obv remove the lense from the pic.

Nice overall tho

To be honest it does suck a bit not to be in any cool photos, but I'm well happy with the results, as are the people in them probably.

I was a bit worried about killing the camera on the first day, but it just wasn't a problem. My Lowepro Orion II bag did a good job, I had many falls with it on and the camera is still mint, bar a few finger marks on lenses!
I also had no condensation problems (which I've seen people on here with before).
Assuming you board, there is a greater risk of falling on your back, because with skis you generally fall on your sides.

I've got to get STALKER, looks good, been waiting years for it...

I actually quite like how the lens frames the shot, it makes it a little easier to look at, because we don't see with square edges? I'll crop them just to have a look though (but then you lose the wide angle/fisheye distortion which is cool).

Colin_da_Killer said:
#10 beats them all by miles.

You can tell he won't land it :rolleyes:

BruceLee · 2 Apr 2007 at 23:41

Yeah, but I dont trust other people to take the shots I want of me, only got a couple which I had to seriously tweak, always looked like I was standing still, no blur etc, I guess they just look at it from a P&S point of view, rather than how people in this forum might try to compose the shot.

Yep, I did fall a couple of times on my back but it wasnt too bad, I padded the bag with a jumper and other stuff so it wasnt too bad, I usually tried to fall sideways if I had to, ironically my brother managed to break the LCD a bit when we went for dinner :rolleyes:

Just got STALKER this afternoon, no time to play it this week due to work, typically I was off all last week and it didnt turn up...

It looks like you had fun, there was a shed load of snow the day before we left Switzerland so it was pretty good as a late getaway, not many people on the slopes.

robertgilbert86 · 2 Apr 2007 at 23:46

We were dead lucky with snow really, the 2 nights before we got there it snowed. Then the week was all sun. Most the lower altitude runs got closed, but there was still enough to do.

I had an idea the other day for self photography; get a IR remote, set up a tripod, and zoom/air past it whilst pressing fire!

My bro is good with photography (he was the only other one using the camera), he's into it, just needs practice. Unlike non-photo types, who wouldn't really be bothered about how to get a good shot.

BruceLee · 2 Apr 2007 at 23:57

Yeah I guess the IR remote thing would work, but I guess it would have to be quiet on the slope otherwise someone might knock it over.

Good your brother likes photography, dont think I have anyone that I know of that snowboards/skis that does photography.

Still, I was wanting just to sit round the snowpark and take photos of people but no one was using it so gave up in the end.

I've been to Vermont and Slovakia/Czech Republic but I was amazed at the size of the Alps, must have been a good 5-10k run from top to bottom if you took the different routes, but was fantastic, love the feeling you get going down the mountain when you feel confident to do it.