More boating photos

Got back from a photo shoot in Michigan and thought I’d share a couple of photos. Actually I’m in the process of copying the photos from a backup external drive to my RAID drive and there’s about 35 gb of photos so it’s gonna take a while. These shots are really more lifestyle than product oriented. Also, since I shot over 3800 photos over the past few days I just grabbed a few that I kinda liked.

This was a fun shot and I was happy about the Canon’s 6 fps drive. 🙂
 

This was a hard shot to capture. There were 2 guys in the boat casting trying to hit me. Plus timing the lure hitting the water was a challenge.

Shooting this next shot required me to climb up a 10ft tower that was bolted to the deck of the chase boat. The water was really rough so the tower was swinging a couple of feet back and forth. It was hard to keep the boat in frame.
 

The light was really nice for this shot. Believe it or not these kids are not pro models, but are the kids of one of the guys that works at Apex.
 

This shot was taken a couple of weeks ago and has a fashion edge to it.
 

We shot this in downtown Alma, MI. I had to use a monopod and a REALLY slow shutter speed. It was shot from the back of a pickup truck.
 

The final shot is of the set where I photographed the boats to be outlined in the catalog. Since the background doesn’t matter (the boat will be extracted digitally), the goal is to make sure the boats are lit consistantly. The boats are shot from several angles. One of which is from the aluminum tower on the right side of the photo. This is just like the tower bolted to the chase boat for the running shots, except the other tower is 2 feet taller.
 

Thanks to all the folks from Apex Marine for making this a fun shoot. Also thanks to the guys in the factory – Brian, John, Bruce and all the other craftsmen at the Apex Factory.