Category Finalist 2007: new creativity

Derek Frankowski

We tried to shoot this location a few times, but each time we tried, the weather didn’t come together like we needed. The fall is the most epic time to shoot around Rossland, and finally, on about our third attempt, the fog hung around long enough for us to session the area. We shot from five or six angles and when I got the film back, it was this shot, where I got the camera as close to the action as I could with a 16 mm fisheye, that gave the viewer the best peek into what it’s like to get air on a mountain bike. Minutes after this image was taken, the sun burned the fog off and the shoot was done.

Athlete: Mike Hopkins
Location: Rossland, BC, Canada

TECHNICAL INFO

• Camera: Nikon F5
• Lens: 16 mm fisheye
• Film: Kodak Portra 400UC (processed normal)
• F-stop: 5.6
• Shutter speed: 1/1000