Tons of unpublished pictures on the site!

[fivat]

Here are a lot of new pictures that we were keeping very carefully and that are now available in different places of the site. More than 250 pictures of quality, rescaled and improved! All that in a coherent and clear classification, with often a brief comment. Maybe you will discover a picture of yourself

• Pages Photos:
• Winter 2006: the 30 nicest pictures of the season (there is even Nils, hihi! )
• Winters 2004 and 2005: the 18 nicest pictures of these two seasons
• Swoarders: something new A selection of 27 photos about Swoard carvers... The easy extremecarving that anyone can experience
  
  
  Gallery of the community :
• Album ECS III: about 90 unpublished pictures from the Extremecarving Session 2006. They can be found mainly on the pages 3 and 4
• Album ECS II: album improved and completed with several new pictures, especially at the page 1
• Albums "All carving related pictures", "Extremecarving pictures" et "Swoard snowboards": about 70 new pictures! Look at the ones that have few "hits", they are the most recent.

There are now more than 900 photos on the site (the images in the Forum are not counted)!! The construction of the new Gallery has needed a lot of work and we hope that you will enjoy watching it.

Patrice Fivat

[fivat]

This is not a locked subject!!

Nobody has any comment about...?
- the first Nils pictures on the site (hihi!)
- the fact that the team uses helmets now (actually I don't like to wear this on the slopes)
- extremecarving on 45° slopes
- the excellent turns made by the Swoarders Peter, Rob, Benjamin, David, etc.
- some nice pictures in the Gallery of the Community (I love this one: http://www.swoard.com/gallery/displayim ... m=2&pos=45 )
- etc. ?

Maybe we have made extremecarving (and wide boards) too ordinary...

Patrice Fivat

[vkrouverk]

As per your request...
Nice and high quality photos there. I assume that you used DSLR for 2006 images (was it canon 20D?) and it can be seen in picutures, much better quality than in previous years.
Only problem for me is that you have cropped (or framed) some pictures quite tightly. I'd left more room around riding "axis": in front to allow better composition and in rear to show these nice roostertails. E.g. this image:
https://www.extremecarving.com/photos/0 ... 03_06.html
where rider is in left side of picture and seems to ride out of it after a splitsecond. Of course such framing/cropping makes main subject smaller in overall picture and loses details. And photograping of carving and getting good framing is quite hard due to it's dynamic nature so thumbs up for these images in any case
These steep drop pictures are quite sick ones. Did Jaques use ice-pick to hold himself on this wall while shooting?

[fivat]

I assume that you used DSLR for 2006 images (was it canon 20D?)

Right! And also for the biggest images on the page Swoarders.

And photograping of carving and getting good framing is quite hard due to it's dynamic nature

Yes I agree. It's why I have chosen different cropping/framing for the pictures, sometimes tight, sometimes large.

Of course such framing/cropping makes main subject smaller in overall picture and loses details.

Yes, like this one: https://www.extremecarving.com/photos/0 ... 08_06.html
It's not possible to see on the same picture the whole snow spray and the details of the rider's face

These steep drop pictures are quite sick ones. Did Jaques use ice-pick to hold himself on this wall while shooting?

Hihi, the photographer can keep his board bound to the feet and sit down, or stand outside of the piste on the soft snow!

Patrice Fivat

[drzone]

Like you said. Beautiful pictures and very inspiring to get out there and try the same. The 45% angle shot is superb.
However, EC is becoming almost mainstream! And that's a good thing.
What you don't see anymore after this kind of posting is the bad criticism that usually goes along with it...like 45% that's not possible, you are skidding, can't carve like that etc...seems like if you really give it a go, you realize it can be done, and a lot of fun, although difficult to make it look as good as your pics.