Living on the Edge

Out of Control Sledder on Mount Baldy

I photographed this on Sunday with a 300mm focal length. What I want to do next time is use my 17-35mm wide angle lens while actually sledding down the slopes myself! I don't know how I am going to keep control of the sled while shooting photos but I haven't seen anyone else do this before so it is worth a shot.

One scenario might be to set my camera on a one or two second time-lapse (gotta read the instruction manual...) while dangling around my neck. The perspective should be about ideal as I'd want my feet showing with snow flying all over the place. The hard part would be keeping the camera facing in the right direction.

The one-handed approach would probably yield the most consistent compositions but the degree of difficulty would be really high. Even without cameras, the people I saw weren't able to consistently make it down the slopes without wiping out. There is another method that I will most likely use but I'll keep that a secret for now. Though if you've read some of my previous blog entries then maybe you might have an idea for what that is.