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Anchorage, Alaska-based adventure and travel photographer Dan Bailey recently shot some chilly shots for Sportmaster Ltd., a sporting goods retailer based in Russia. Sportmaster will primarily be using these images to promote the Merrell brand on their website and in-store displays. Personally, I’m dreading the supposedly harsh winter that is rapidly approaching, but Dan has managed to make these hikers look warm and cozy while they trek through the snow-covered mountains.
From a photography standpoint, I felt that it was the quintessential job for me, as it required a high degree of technical, action adventure photography skills and equipment that would withstand extreme conditions, as well as the outdoor skills and gear to comfortably move around in this kind of mountain environment.
For most of these scenes, I used a Nikon DSLR and the 24mm f/2.8D wide angle lens. I’ve always loved the 24mm for shooting adventure subjects because it’s wide enough to show environment but not too wide that it blows out perspective too much, and it doesn’t distort very much at the edges.
I’m very excited about the way these images came out. To me, they accurately represent the kind of environment and extreme look the client was going for. When I compare them to the initial comps that the art directors showed me during the preproduction phase, I feel that we nailed it.