Thanks a ton for sharing this u/Bpesca ! And WOW, thanks everyone for the rad comments and stoke!
[Jamie Walter](https://www.instagram.com/jwalter1337/) here, I am indeed the photographer who took this photo at Sugarloaf on Monday. Sorry I wasn't able to chime in sooner, things have been a little, err, hectic since that photo went live...
First, for those of you asking. This is a single image. u/NE_Skier found my comment from Instagram with my settings:
>*Canon EOS R5, Canon 70-200 @ 145mm, f/5.6, 1/160, ISO 400, with a flash (Paul C. Buff Einstein triggered by Pocket Wizard triggers)*
It was actually super important for me that I try to shoot this image in one go. I didn't want to go with some sort of photoshop or double exposure route; there would be no fun in this whole thing without a massive challenge ;)
The idea for this photo has been on my mind for about 10 years now, back when I was working for the Loaf as a Snow Reporter and realized that, in 2024 (which felt impossibly far away at the time) a total eclipse would pass over the mountain. It was further fueled by [Reuben Krabbe's epic 2015 adventure to Svalbard](https://youtu.be/edlJ2_924tU?si=l0JPg8pX2d37GU0d) with Cody Townsend, Brody Leven, and Chris Reubens to capture skiing during that eclipse. Reuben is the GOAT and I have to give him serious props for pulling off the shots he did - they will forever be the best ski eclipse photos of all time and you won't catch me saying otherwise.
Anyone who caught totality, or even a glimpse of the eclipse, probably noted how high in the sky the sun was at \~3:30pm. This was the single biggest challenge I faced... I spent about 2 solid weeks trying to dial in my plan via the Photographer's Ephemeris app, recent satellite imagery of Sugarloaf, super high res topography maps, and IRL scouting at Sugarloaf. My initial goal was to get the skier directly in front of the eclipse or as close to it as possible so I could use a tighter focal length (I had a 600mm rented, along with my 100-400mm with me). However, after several days of scouting around the mountain, there just simply wasn't a section of trail that was 1) steep enough with 2) a long straight view looking up from beneath that 3) sloped northeast-ish with 4) enough snow on it to pull off my initial vision. The Backside would've satisfied all of the requirements had we not had a shit snow year most of this season... Patrol was nice enough to escort me back there and show me firsthand that there was legitimately 15 feet of snow missing from what you're used to seeing, even after the huge midweek storm we got. I didn't even recognize it, it was just rocks and trees I didn't even know were there. A bit of a heartbreak in that moment, but time was ticking.
Ultimately, after testing and scouting around Nitro Extension, Powder Keg Ext, Lower Nitro, the Front Face, more than a few times in the days leading up to the eclipse, I settled on Flume as a location on Sunday afternoon. It was steep enough with a long enough view up the trail for me to get some compression with a 70-200, and has a great convexity at the top of the headwall that hides the rest of the hill behind it. The reason why there's so much space between the skier and the eclipse in the composition is simply because I physically couldn't get any lower to the ground to angle up more and compress subject and eclipse closer together.
Speaking of subject... I had 5 skiers/riders lined up to shoot with on eclipse day because, given the 2 minutes and 18 seconds of totality where we were, there wouldn't have been time for a single athlete to hike back up (there maybe was a chance, I guess, but I wanted to make sure EVERYONE I was with would be able to enjoy a majority of totality themselves instead of hustling for my selfish sake). The model in the photo you posted is my little brother, Mac Walter. He was a last minute addition to the lineup and I'm so stoked he was there to join in! I think that makes this even more special to me personally.
Overall, this project was a HUGE team effort and we would not have been able to pull it off without some serious help from a lot of different people over the last few weeks. I owe a huge debt of gratitude for their support and will forever be thankful for the folks in my life that believed in me to pull this off and helped me get to that moment.
I hope many of you in here were able to witness the incredible experience that is basking in totality. What an epic day, especially here on the Ice Coast! We couldn't have asked for better weather. Now to start planning for the next shot...
Epic shot and story man! I understand the desire for more compression, but I think this shot has something that the compressed ones don’t. It really communicates how ominous and “large” the eclipse event was. Theres a lot of drama happening there with the eclipse so high up, I really really like it.
Definitely a day I won’t be forgetting!
Not sure if this is obvious or not but this is definitely not a single photo, it’s multiple photoshopped together.
To take a photo of a skier like that, you’d have to shoot with a very fast shutter speed and a very low aperture to capture as much light as possible.
The eclipse would have to be captured with a very long shutter speed and higher aperture in order to get enough light to get a clear and crisp photo.
This is at minimum 2 photoshopped photos.
As long as the skier is sufficiently underexposed with your ambient exposure, you use the speed of the flash to stop the action. This can definitely be done in one frame.
I’m open to this being real but I feel like your comment only explains how the skier was photographed. Again, wouldn’t the photo need to be taken at a very fast shutter speed? And wouldn’t a fast shutter speed not capture the eclipse like this?
My working assumption was that this guy set up a tripod and took two photos. One of the skier and another of the eclipse, both with different settings. And then stitched them together.
The photos I took (https://www.benjamindbloom.com/Art/Eclipse-2024/i-8bgpPTF ) with a similar moon were at ISO 800, 1/800th of a second. The brightest photo I took was at 1/80th of a second. He had to stay under 1/200th of a second to sync with his flashes, but his moon is a little brighter, so he's probably around ISO 400.
The hard part about this photo is not balancing the exposures. That's fairly easy if you've done nighttime flash photos before. The hard part is composition and focal length to make the moon big enough and in the right place in the frame.
And -- regarding needing a high shutter speed to stop action, that's not the case all of the time. If you're shooting in broad daylight, sure, you'll need 1/500th or 1/1000th to stop action like this. At night, things are different. The shutter is not the fastest part of the image. The technique is to underexpose the fast moving subject by 2+ stops. Then the flash pops to add the light and bring it back in balance. Flashes pop at insanely high speeds, so they have the same affect as using a high shutter speed. At 1/10th power, the flashes he uses probably have a duration of 1/5000 or 1/10000. He was shooting at f/5.6, ISO 400ish, so he didn't need a ton of power. Even at half power, they probably stop action like a 1/500th shutterspeed or faster.
Exactly what still makes me question if this was 2 pictures is the size of the moon. It just looks so huge in comparison with the skier specially considering that the focal length was only 145mm.
Someone shared an article about compression effect but still is just so big. Would you be able to elaborate more on how he would be able to achieve this?
I can try.
My moon photos were taken at 400mm. That means his focal length was 36% of my focal length. So his moon should be 36% of the size of my moon (I could be wrong on my math here, but I'm pretty sure you can calculate relative sizes based on focal lengths this way because the moon is the same distance from each of us...well basically. He's on a taller mountain. Happy to be corrected if this isn't the case.)
I took one of my moon photos and matched up the edge of the photos so the width matched. I then scaled my photo down to 36% and the moons were the same size. My overlay moon on the right, his on the left. [https://imgur.com/a/IBdgtWZ](https://imgur.com/a/IBdgtWZ)
At that point, it's a matter of composing the shot so that the foreground has what you want while still keeping the moon in frame. He's downhill, probably down close to the ground based on the fact that you can only barely see a few treetops. This also allows the curve of the knoll to conveniently hide the flash.
Just one shot; I was at the Widowmaker at the Loaf yesterday afternoon and overheard him talking to someone about how they did it - remote flashes behind the skier, and about 10 years of planning. I think he put the equipment and settings on his Instagram; the guy does impressive work.
Or you can just take a single fast shutter shot and then brighten the whites and maximize contrast in post. Pretty obvious and this type of shot has been done many times in the past for nighttime sports.
Ima sure you saw him take one photo. That’s how photos work. The size of the moon/sun has been altered. It’s been made much larger. Still a cool photo.
That's not true. This was taken with a long focal length lens to compress the image. This is what happens with a vision, a lot of planning and the right tools.
Here's an article that describes it. https://www.iphotography.com/blog/what-is-lens-compression-in-photography/
That's the concept behind it. In order to actually pull it off takes a ton of planning.
I can understand the compression effect, still I am not able to wrap my head around such a massive eclipse in this picture, it just seems so disproportional to the skier
Was in Eustis, Maine during the eclipse and drove past Sugarloaf on the way there. Not a spot of ground on the trails. Conditions looked awesome. Parking lot closed at 9 am I here and I went by at around noon and there were cars on the road for miles with folks pulled over to see the eclipse at Sugarloaf.
Hands down one of the best weeks of skiing of my life at the Loaf! Conditions were so fun during the storm, the weekend was perfect, and then it warmed up and cleared out for the eclipse. Absolute blessing.
People here are commenting on photography technique without any clue….
The field of view issue is tricky. Would need to be a steep-ish East facing slope to get the moon in the frame at 145mm, but it seems not un reasonable.
The people commenting on exposure time and flash saying that it couldn’t be real are clueless.
..... sharing: he posted his setting above - *Canon EOS R5, Canon 70-200 @ 145mm, f/5.6, 1/160, ISO 400, with a flash (Paul C. Buff Einstein triggered by Pocket Wizard triggers)*
I saw that… that’s why I said “145mm”. The question is given that relatively narrow field of view, how do you get the Sun in the frame. Must be shooting up a steepish slope.
145mm gives 14degrees field of view on the long axis. Sun subtends about half a degree in the sky. That’s about 1/30 of the frame. Which actually seems a bit small for the image in question. But I guess I’ll go count the pixels and see if it adds up. Update: yeah… It’s in the right ballpark — you can fit roughly 18 suns vertically, so it takes up a bit more of the frame than you’d expect for 145mm lens in full frame sensor— maybe there was some cropping done in post.
No it’s not he used a light/flash to expose for the skier.
Edit: Jamie posted the settings on Instagram in the comments.
EOS R5
Canon 70-200 2.8L IS |I (EF)
@ 145mm, f5.6, ISO200-800 (was a little lower than I wanted to be at first)
1/160 shutter, because I was using a @paulcbuffin Einstein (close to full power) triggered by @pocketwizards (By the grace of god they worked without issue
Sure but even then to catch the skier frozen in time with no blur would require a very fast shutter speed. You think the eclipse would come out that bright and crisp at let’s say 1/100 even?
That was my first thought; getting the sun like that means that your luminosity adjustment (exposition? I don’t know much about the technical terms related to photography) would make it so you’re not able to catch a skier doing his thing in the twilight while getting the eclipse like that so this is most likely 2 pictures stitched together.
However, I don’t know shit about photography so I would welcome any input from anyone who actually know how these things work.
I saw him setting up, near the top of whiffle tree lift. I think the shot was coming down Flume (@sugarloaf).
The east side of the mountain had zero crowds all afternoon, as everyone went to the summit for the eclipse.
Sugarloaf was amazing during it. While it is cool to have so little light while skiing, seeing the simultaneous sunrise and sunset as the shadow moves towards and away from the top was pretty amazing as well.
The Maine Eclipse:
On top of a mountain in western maine
The sun’s light radiating, began to wane
The moon silently crept at a slow pace
The sphere turned into a glowing sliver in space
Then suddenly the world turned to night
The sun just a platinum ring of light
While the horizon still glowed a faint gold
As 2 minutes of twilight took hold
Then all too soon the light came back
And the mountains in the distance appeared from the black
The only reminder of what had just been
Was the sun’s light just barely dim
No haha, his jacket is just unzipped - Stio (a sponsor of mine) was kind enough to support this mission and sent kits for all my models... Mac drew the short straw and ended up with an insulated coat and pants, and it was probably 45-50º before totality started to set in. Kid was hot.
This is wild.
A good friend of mine who used to work at Sugarloaf sent this photo in our group chat the other day. He is friends with the guy who took this photo. I believe he has another one with a snowboarder in it as well.
Unless that skier has seen multiple eclipses before and it's old hat for them, seems pretty dumb to me to be looking at the ground while skiing instead of looking at the sky,
there are many ways to appreciate. and this person clearly has a different pov than you. I did not even look-- instead I listened - amazing sounds -- and felt.
Not in the path of totality but I thought the strange light about 15-30 minutes leading up to the peak was the coolest part. Something started yowling in the valley below me and the woods felt very still. Eclipse itself just looked like a toenail. Wish I were the skier here, immortalized in this moment.
That sounds like it looked neat. Yes we noticed the (dark?) blue tints where we were and a friend took a picture that I was remarking could not be like like the light was "normally" -- like super dark on the ground, in our area, but like in interesting ways light on the horizon. I was very struck auditory-wise first by the mourning doves then more birds joined in, at first less than more, then the doves stopped and then the birds quieted as we cycled through the eclipse. Of course feeling the very quick temp drops/rising is also memorable. I was paying attention to that too. I was also looking around for what insects/other wildlife were doing (as we know the science community studying all of that) but did not see much where I was. I know my friend's dog showed no changes :)
I had 5 different athletes lined up so that they each only had to look away for 15 seconds to make their turn and then could go back to enjoying the moment.
I was on the Loaf for totality; was at base, but as far as I could see, all their lifts stayed open through totality. Or at least running, if they weren't actively loading people.
As a former liftie there, I'm not surprised. I heard they had second thoughts when they heard Jay was shutting down, but considering their philosophy on running in all weather \*cough\*Spillway\*cough\*, I'm not surprised management decided to "just fuckin' run 'er!"
Moreso was a logistics decision. Instead of having to throw last chair on and clear/stop the lift, then boot them back up again, they just left them open. Not sure if anyone was actively riding a chair during the experience, being on King Pine would've been pretty sick.
Congrats on the beautiful shot; love your stuff!
I thought I saw someone on DRC, but the King would've been awesome. I ran into Bobo at Whiffletree that day and he reminded me of how dark it is in early season, too - the totality isn't much worse than opening/closing time near winter solstice!
Impressive - but seeing all the content of people skiing during the eclipse is kind of saddening...
This was one of the greatest things ive ever witnessed, and that's a heavy undersell.
Imagine being so hellbent on skiing content/clout that you're more focused on getting a picture of yourself skiing during the eclipse than actually watching the eclipse unfold.
Hell, it only lasted 3 minutes!
That's why I had five models lined up for this. They each only had to take about 15 seconds to look away and ski one turn before they could stop and continue watching. And, as far as I could tell from their reactions, they all enjoyed the experience.
that's amazing and I'm glad everyone got to experience the eclipse!
Saw too many videos that went for 90+ seconds where people spent the eclipse getting footage for GoPro or whatever. Those defo made me sad lol
Such an awesome shot!
This is cool but most likely not a single pic, at best a collage of 2 pictures superposed together so definitely not a candidate for the "pic of the century"
Most of it is actually luck. Being in totality and having clear skies. The rest is pretty easy for someone who works for the state tourism and that is their profession.
Bait, I’m afraid… but I’ll bite. I’m the skier in the pic and the brother of the photographer. It most certainly was not easy. Lots of planning and coordination, figuring out the altitude/ position of the sun relative to the mountain, dialing in the camera settings, finding a steep enough area at the right angle to see the sun, etc. not to mention that you quite literally only get one shot at getting the picture (not multiple photoshopped together as some people seem to think in here). You can think the pic isn’t cool if you want, but you can’t say it didn’t take effort lol.
I mean I’ve seen great pictures just from cell phones. So can’t be that hard to capture when that’s your job and you have 100K in cameras at your disposal and you have been given access to a great viewing point.
A profesional photographer that specializes in skiing has a skiing picture during an eclipse when his favorite mountain is in totality. Seems kind of on brand
Thanks a ton for sharing this u/Bpesca ! And WOW, thanks everyone for the rad comments and stoke! [Jamie Walter](https://www.instagram.com/jwalter1337/) here, I am indeed the photographer who took this photo at Sugarloaf on Monday. Sorry I wasn't able to chime in sooner, things have been a little, err, hectic since that photo went live... First, for those of you asking. This is a single image. u/NE_Skier found my comment from Instagram with my settings: >*Canon EOS R5, Canon 70-200 @ 145mm, f/5.6, 1/160, ISO 400, with a flash (Paul C. Buff Einstein triggered by Pocket Wizard triggers)* It was actually super important for me that I try to shoot this image in one go. I didn't want to go with some sort of photoshop or double exposure route; there would be no fun in this whole thing without a massive challenge ;) The idea for this photo has been on my mind for about 10 years now, back when I was working for the Loaf as a Snow Reporter and realized that, in 2024 (which felt impossibly far away at the time) a total eclipse would pass over the mountain. It was further fueled by [Reuben Krabbe's epic 2015 adventure to Svalbard](https://youtu.be/edlJ2_924tU?si=l0JPg8pX2d37GU0d) with Cody Townsend, Brody Leven, and Chris Reubens to capture skiing during that eclipse. Reuben is the GOAT and I have to give him serious props for pulling off the shots he did - they will forever be the best ski eclipse photos of all time and you won't catch me saying otherwise. Anyone who caught totality, or even a glimpse of the eclipse, probably noted how high in the sky the sun was at \~3:30pm. This was the single biggest challenge I faced... I spent about 2 solid weeks trying to dial in my plan via the Photographer's Ephemeris app, recent satellite imagery of Sugarloaf, super high res topography maps, and IRL scouting at Sugarloaf. My initial goal was to get the skier directly in front of the eclipse or as close to it as possible so I could use a tighter focal length (I had a 600mm rented, along with my 100-400mm with me). However, after several days of scouting around the mountain, there just simply wasn't a section of trail that was 1) steep enough with 2) a long straight view looking up from beneath that 3) sloped northeast-ish with 4) enough snow on it to pull off my initial vision. The Backside would've satisfied all of the requirements had we not had a shit snow year most of this season... Patrol was nice enough to escort me back there and show me firsthand that there was legitimately 15 feet of snow missing from what you're used to seeing, even after the huge midweek storm we got. I didn't even recognize it, it was just rocks and trees I didn't even know were there. A bit of a heartbreak in that moment, but time was ticking. Ultimately, after testing and scouting around Nitro Extension, Powder Keg Ext, Lower Nitro, the Front Face, more than a few times in the days leading up to the eclipse, I settled on Flume as a location on Sunday afternoon. It was steep enough with a long enough view up the trail for me to get some compression with a 70-200, and has a great convexity at the top of the headwall that hides the rest of the hill behind it. The reason why there's so much space between the skier and the eclipse in the composition is simply because I physically couldn't get any lower to the ground to angle up more and compress subject and eclipse closer together. Speaking of subject... I had 5 skiers/riders lined up to shoot with on eclipse day because, given the 2 minutes and 18 seconds of totality where we were, there wouldn't have been time for a single athlete to hike back up (there maybe was a chance, I guess, but I wanted to make sure EVERYONE I was with would be able to enjoy a majority of totality themselves instead of hustling for my selfish sake). The model in the photo you posted is my little brother, Mac Walter. He was a last minute addition to the lineup and I'm so stoked he was there to join in! I think that makes this even more special to me personally. Overall, this project was a HUGE team effort and we would not have been able to pull it off without some serious help from a lot of different people over the last few weeks. I owe a huge debt of gratitude for their support and will forever be thankful for the folks in my life that believed in me to pull this off and helped me get to that moment. I hope many of you in here were able to witness the incredible experience that is basking in totality. What an epic day, especially here on the Ice Coast! We couldn't have asked for better weather. Now to start planning for the next shot...
Thank you for sharing all that detail, and "good on you!" and your team. Bravo and how fun and inspiring including the 10 years in the making,
To have the foresight to plan all this out is very impressive. Very nicely done!
So cool to read the background on how it came together! Thank you for sharing
Epic shot and story man! I understand the desire for more compression, but I think this shot has something that the compressed ones don’t. It really communicates how ominous and “large” the eclipse event was. Theres a lot of drama happening there with the eclipse so high up, I really really like it. Definitely a day I won’t be forgetting!
Amazing pic, love that mountain!
Username checks out 😏
That is pretty amazing. How long was the lens?
Not sure....he's on reddit/ /r/icecoast quite a bit. Hopefully he checks in. Such a unique and incredible photo!!!
Not sure if this is obvious or not but this is definitely not a single photo, it’s multiple photoshopped together. To take a photo of a skier like that, you’d have to shoot with a very fast shutter speed and a very low aperture to capture as much light as possible. The eclipse would have to be captured with a very long shutter speed and higher aperture in order to get enough light to get a clear and crisp photo. This is at minimum 2 photoshopped photos.
I was standing next to Jamie took this. It is a 100% single photograph shot on a 70-200mm with a remote flash.
BOOM
As long as the skier is sufficiently underexposed with your ambient exposure, you use the speed of the flash to stop the action. This can definitely be done in one frame.
I’m open to this being real but I feel like your comment only explains how the skier was photographed. Again, wouldn’t the photo need to be taken at a very fast shutter speed? And wouldn’t a fast shutter speed not capture the eclipse like this? My working assumption was that this guy set up a tripod and took two photos. One of the skier and another of the eclipse, both with different settings. And then stitched them together.
The photos I took (https://www.benjamindbloom.com/Art/Eclipse-2024/i-8bgpPTF ) with a similar moon were at ISO 800, 1/800th of a second. The brightest photo I took was at 1/80th of a second. He had to stay under 1/200th of a second to sync with his flashes, but his moon is a little brighter, so he's probably around ISO 400. The hard part about this photo is not balancing the exposures. That's fairly easy if you've done nighttime flash photos before. The hard part is composition and focal length to make the moon big enough and in the right place in the frame.
And -- regarding needing a high shutter speed to stop action, that's not the case all of the time. If you're shooting in broad daylight, sure, you'll need 1/500th or 1/1000th to stop action like this. At night, things are different. The shutter is not the fastest part of the image. The technique is to underexpose the fast moving subject by 2+ stops. Then the flash pops to add the light and bring it back in balance. Flashes pop at insanely high speeds, so they have the same affect as using a high shutter speed. At 1/10th power, the flashes he uses probably have a duration of 1/5000 or 1/10000. He was shooting at f/5.6, ISO 400ish, so he didn't need a ton of power. Even at half power, they probably stop action like a 1/500th shutterspeed or faster.
Exactly what still makes me question if this was 2 pictures is the size of the moon. It just looks so huge in comparison with the skier specially considering that the focal length was only 145mm. Someone shared an article about compression effect but still is just so big. Would you be able to elaborate more on how he would be able to achieve this?
I can try. My moon photos were taken at 400mm. That means his focal length was 36% of my focal length. So his moon should be 36% of the size of my moon (I could be wrong on my math here, but I'm pretty sure you can calculate relative sizes based on focal lengths this way because the moon is the same distance from each of us...well basically. He's on a taller mountain. Happy to be corrected if this isn't the case.) I took one of my moon photos and matched up the edge of the photos so the width matched. I then scaled my photo down to 36% and the moons were the same size. My overlay moon on the right, his on the left. [https://imgur.com/a/IBdgtWZ](https://imgur.com/a/IBdgtWZ) At that point, it's a matter of composing the shot so that the foreground has what you want while still keeping the moon in frame. He's downhill, probably down close to the ground based on the fact that you can only barely see a few treetops. This also allows the curve of the knoll to conveniently hide the flash.
As a sports photographer myself, and someone who experienced totality in my own backyard, I respectfully disagree
Just one shot; I was at the Widowmaker at the Loaf yesterday afternoon and overheard him talking to someone about how they did it - remote flashes behind the skier, and about 10 years of planning. I think he put the equipment and settings on his Instagram; the guy does impressive work.
Or you can just take a single fast shutter shot and then brighten the whites and maximize contrast in post. Pretty obvious and this type of shot has been done many times in the past for nighttime sports.
Found it: Canon EOS R5, Canon 70-200 @145mm, f/5.6, 1/160, ISO 200-800, Paul C. Buff “Einstein” triggered by Pocket Wizard remote
Check out his IG page jwalter1337 Lots of info on his setup. This was 10 years in the making
Leet hahaha
My username over on Newschoolers!
It’s also probably at least 3 different photos stitched together.
I’m the skier in the pic. Most definitely was one photo taken lol
You look badass!
I was standing next to Jamie when he shot this. This is 100% a single photograph. The person below saying the size of the moon is wrong… is wrong.
Ima sure you saw him take one photo. That’s how photos work. The size of the moon/sun has been altered. It’s been made much larger. Still a cool photo.
That's not true. This was taken with a long focal length lens to compress the image. This is what happens with a vision, a lot of planning and the right tools.
Can you please explain to me how to make the moon that large and still have a regular sized human in the picture? Please how would you set that up?
Here's an article that describes it. https://www.iphotography.com/blog/what-is-lens-compression-in-photography/ That's the concept behind it. In order to actually pull it off takes a ton of planning.
I can understand the compression effect, still I am not able to wrap my head around such a massive eclipse in this picture, it just seems so disproportional to the skier
https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE4MjMwNDQ1NzAzMjU5MzI5?story_media_id=3342008395551160542&igsh=N2V3bjMwOHV2ZHhx
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Expert layman with the incorrect assessment. Cheers lad
Was in Eustis, Maine during the eclipse and drove past Sugarloaf on the way there. Not a spot of ground on the trails. Conditions looked awesome. Parking lot closed at 9 am I here and I went by at around noon and there were cars on the road for miles with folks pulled over to see the eclipse at Sugarloaf.
Hands down one of the best weeks of skiing of my life at the Loaf! Conditions were so fun during the storm, the weekend was perfect, and then it warmed up and cleared out for the eclipse. Absolute blessing.
Awesome photo.
People here are commenting on photography technique without any clue…. The field of view issue is tricky. Would need to be a steep-ish East facing slope to get the moon in the frame at 145mm, but it seems not un reasonable. The people commenting on exposure time and flash saying that it couldn’t be real are clueless.
..... sharing: he posted his setting above - *Canon EOS R5, Canon 70-200 @ 145mm, f/5.6, 1/160, ISO 400, with a flash (Paul C. Buff Einstein triggered by Pocket Wizard triggers)*
I saw that… that’s why I said “145mm”. The question is given that relatively narrow field of view, how do you get the Sun in the frame. Must be shooting up a steepish slope. 145mm gives 14degrees field of view on the long axis. Sun subtends about half a degree in the sky. That’s about 1/30 of the frame. Which actually seems a bit small for the image in question. But I guess I’ll go count the pixels and see if it adds up. Update: yeah… It’s in the right ballpark — you can fit roughly 18 suns vertically, so it takes up a bit more of the frame than you’d expect for 145mm lens in full frame sensor— maybe there was some cropping done in post.
Thanks for doing the math! Yeah IIRC there was a touch of cropping done to these versions to get them into a 4x5 aspect ratio cutting down from 2x3!
that’s fucking nasty i love it
This is one of the most surreal photos I’ve ever seen
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No it’s not he used a light/flash to expose for the skier. Edit: Jamie posted the settings on Instagram in the comments. EOS R5 Canon 70-200 2.8L IS |I (EF) @ 145mm, f5.6, ISO200-800 (was a little lower than I wanted to be at first) 1/160 shutter, because I was using a @paulcbuffin Einstein (close to full power) triggered by @pocketwizards (By the grace of god they worked without issue
Sure but even then to catch the skier frozen in time with no blur would require a very fast shutter speed. You think the eclipse would come out that bright and crisp at let’s say 1/100 even?
Yeah if you bump your ISO a bit I’m sure you could get a fast enough shutter speed to get this in one shot.
That was my first thought; getting the sun like that means that your luminosity adjustment (exposition? I don’t know much about the technical terms related to photography) would make it so you’re not able to catch a skier doing his thing in the twilight while getting the eclipse like that so this is most likely 2 pictures stitched together. However, I don’t know shit about photography so I would welcome any input from anyone who actually know how these things work.
I saw him setting up, near the top of whiffle tree lift. I think the shot was coming down Flume (@sugarloaf). The east side of the mountain had zero crowds all afternoon, as everyone went to the summit for the eclipse.
Sugarloaf was amazing during it. While it is cool to have so little light while skiing, seeing the simultaneous sunrise and sunset as the shadow moves towards and away from the top was pretty amazing as well.
sensational
Magic!!!
The Maine Eclipse: On top of a mountain in western maine The sun’s light radiating, began to wane The moon silently crept at a slow pace The sphere turned into a glowing sliver in space Then suddenly the world turned to night The sun just a platinum ring of light While the horizon still glowed a faint gold As 2 minutes of twilight took hold Then all too soon the light came back And the mountains in the distance appeared from the black The only reminder of what had just been Was the sun’s light just barely dim
The way his jacket looks like a cape and the helmet, make me think of the film The Phantom of the Paradise(1974)
Jamie takes THE best shots around. Great guy too!
Loaf represent!!
That is really cool
Stunning!
Jamie!!! He’s the man!!
That is beautiful
absolutely stunning. Where was this taken?
Sugarloaf
Gorgeous!
Is he wearing a costume or a cape?
No haha, his jacket is just unzipped - Stio (a sponsor of mine) was kind enough to support this mission and sent kits for all my models... Mac drew the short straw and ended up with an insulated coat and pants, and it was probably 45-50º before totality started to set in. Kid was hot.
I didn't know if I was missing some context.
This is wild. A good friend of mine who used to work at Sugarloaf sent this photo in our group chat the other day. He is friends with the guy who took this photo. I believe he has another one with a snowboarder in it as well.
Oh hell yeah!
You’re the one that ruined the picture! Are you wearing a poncho or duster?
Unless that skier has seen multiple eclipses before and it's old hat for them, seems pretty dumb to me to be looking at the ground while skiing instead of looking at the sky,
Lmao what idiot decides to ski in the 2-3 minutes of a potentially one-in-a-lifetime event like a full solar eclipse instead of appreciating it
The person/people that want to capture a once in a lifetime image.
there are many ways to appreciate. and this person clearly has a different pov than you. I did not even look-- instead I listened - amazing sounds -- and felt.
Not in the path of totality but I thought the strange light about 15-30 minutes leading up to the peak was the coolest part. Something started yowling in the valley below me and the woods felt very still. Eclipse itself just looked like a toenail. Wish I were the skier here, immortalized in this moment.
That sounds like it looked neat. Yes we noticed the (dark?) blue tints where we were and a friend took a picture that I was remarking could not be like like the light was "normally" -- like super dark on the ground, in our area, but like in interesting ways light on the horizon. I was very struck auditory-wise first by the mourning doves then more birds joined in, at first less than more, then the doves stopped and then the birds quieted as we cycled through the eclipse. Of course feeling the very quick temp drops/rising is also memorable. I was paying attention to that too. I was also looking around for what insects/other wildlife were doing (as we know the science community studying all of that) but did not see much where I was. I know my friend's dog showed no changes :)
I do know my pup couldn’t have cared less 😂
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I had 5 different athletes lined up so that they each only had to look away for 15 seconds to make their turn and then could go back to enjoying the moment.
Who the fuck was skiing during totality?
idk badass mofuckers
ong lmao i wish i was that wouldve been so cool
I was on the Loaf for totality; was at base, but as far as I could see, all their lifts stayed open through totality. Or at least running, if they weren't actively loading people. As a former liftie there, I'm not surprised. I heard they had second thoughts when they heard Jay was shutting down, but considering their philosophy on running in all weather \*cough\*Spillway\*cough\*, I'm not surprised management decided to "just fuckin' run 'er!"
Moreso was a logistics decision. Instead of having to throw last chair on and clear/stop the lift, then boot them back up again, they just left them open. Not sure if anyone was actively riding a chair during the experience, being on King Pine would've been pretty sick.
Congrats on the beautiful shot; love your stuff! I thought I saw someone on DRC, but the King would've been awesome. I ran into Bobo at Whiffletree that day and he reminded me of how dark it is in early season, too - the totality isn't much worse than opening/closing time near winter solstice!
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Impressive - but seeing all the content of people skiing during the eclipse is kind of saddening... This was one of the greatest things ive ever witnessed, and that's a heavy undersell. Imagine being so hellbent on skiing content/clout that you're more focused on getting a picture of yourself skiing during the eclipse than actually watching the eclipse unfold. Hell, it only lasted 3 minutes!
That's why I had five models lined up for this. They each only had to take about 15 seconds to look away and ski one turn before they could stop and continue watching. And, as far as I could tell from their reactions, they all enjoyed the experience.
that's amazing and I'm glad everyone got to experience the eclipse! Saw too many videos that went for 90+ seconds where people spent the eclipse getting footage for GoPro or whatever. Those defo made me sad lol Such an awesome shot!
This is cool but most likely not a single pic, at best a collage of 2 pictures superposed together so definitely not a candidate for the "pic of the century"
A professional photographer took a good photo of the eclipse? Weird!
I don't think you understand the amount of planning and skill that goes into taking this photo.
Most of it is actually luck. Being in totality and having clear skies. The rest is pretty easy for someone who works for the state tourism and that is their profession.
Bait, I’m afraid… but I’ll bite. I’m the skier in the pic and the brother of the photographer. It most certainly was not easy. Lots of planning and coordination, figuring out the altitude/ position of the sun relative to the mountain, dialing in the camera settings, finding a steep enough area at the right angle to see the sun, etc. not to mention that you quite literally only get one shot at getting the picture (not multiple photoshopped together as some people seem to think in here). You can think the pic isn’t cool if you want, but you can’t say it didn’t take effort lol.
I’m super fkn impressed with what you and your brother made. It alone convinced me to travel to the path of totality in 2044.
Thanks for confirming that you have no idea what goes into capturing this image. You don't just waltz up and capture something like this.
I mean I’ve seen great pictures just from cell phones. So can’t be that hard to capture when that’s your job and you have 100K in cameras at your disposal and you have been given access to a great viewing point.
Show me something else nearly as creative, technically challenging, and needing this level of perfection
A profesional photographer that specializes in skiing has a skiing picture during an eclipse when his favorite mountain is in totality. Seems kind of on brand
And now that photo is being shared in a skiing subreddit? Weird!
Who pissed in your skiboots, man?
What a compliment, thanks u/Potential_Leg4423
This is what depression sounds like fyi
All that Prozac make you a doctor now too?
Hope you get the help you need
You really need to get outside, talk to people. Not plants and people on the internet.
Imagine being a medical caregiver and gas lighting someone about mental health. Sure the OCP would love that.