I've been working with a local family whose son is a locally sponsored snowboarding and skateboarder. I'm planning on a short documentary of the whole family - the dad is a former top notch rock climber, surfer and outdoor photographer, the mom was a former college athlete and marathon runner, the older son is a skateboarder, surfer, snowboarding (and many more things), and their younger son is into parkour. The fun thing about these folks is they are not rabid, frothing at the mouth, hardcore competitive types. Their kids do what they love and love what they do and mom and dad support them wholeheartedly. Now that snowboarding season has wound down, we scheduled a photo shoot at a local skate park to get things moving. The day was perfect, with big puffy white clouds giving some drama to the sky. It was huge fun for me to shoot and in the process of doing research for the shoot, I learned a lot about flash duration, the limits of my Nikon speed lights, and the "action" mode on my Einstein flashes! I A good time was had by all!
