DEEP SUMMER RETROSPECTIVEAs we follow along behind the scenes with this year's Deep Summer teams, we wanted to reflect back on the 2014 participants. Below are their stunning slideshows - shot, edited, and compiled in only three-and-a-half days. Whether they slept two hours overall or got a full seven hours every night they each completed an amazing creative feat and raised the bar on photography in doing so. Below are their slideshows and reflections on their experience.
Ale Di Lullo
Lake Garda, Italy | I actually slept almost normally during deep summer, 6-7 hours per night which is pretty standard for me. I believe that resting your brain is an important part of it. The amount of work was balanced I think. With the team that I put together it was hard to [have an] early bird wake-up and late night endings, so we never shot in the morning and we actually shot for eleven hours in total only. The photo editing took about 5-6 hours in the three days and then we made the video editing in 8 hours. -Ale Di Lullo |
Bellingham, Washington | [The experience is] hard to really describe unless you were there, just seeing these shows looks like to everyone else like we went out and snapped some photos all day. But in reality, the shots that we had took weeks of scouting and planning, looking at lunar maps - having a game plan that worked like clockwork really was an advantage. -Paris Gore |
| The highlight for the time spent shooting Deep Summer was really just having a great time. From scouting weeks before, building, spending a whole day rigging cables that didn't end up working to shooting with a really good team who were all extremely dedicated. -Paris Gore |
| I probably spent a total of 8 hours over 4 days. First night I got the most sleep, second night we were camped out on the ridge and didn't sleep. Final day after we finished shooting I edited all night, slept on the floor for about 3 hours while Scott Secco did some slideshow editing. -Paris Gore |
Whistler, British Columbia | I put everything I had into it. The time limit and stress definitely make for some serious challenges, so many ideas in my head then it just goes blank. I put everything out there. Broke a lens in half. Let one lens take a full barrage of dirt and rocks. I just wanted everyone to have a good show. -Sean St. Denis |
| [The highlight for me was] having everyone enjoy my art, and sharing the experience with friends. Not sleeping for days and watching the sun rise 4 days in a row and one of them at the top of a mountain. -Sean St. Denis |
| I slept a total of 1.5hrs in the almost 4 days. Then after handing in my show, went directly to shooting an event and editing for Crankworx. The next day, I worked my normal job the day of the deep summer event, then shot it, then let my team go party while I edited those photos for Crankworx so that people could see them asap. -Sean St. Denis |
Whistler, British Columbia | I would describe the work as gruelling yet rewarding. There were many challenges throughout the three days/month leading up to it, but as a team I'm proud of what we accomplished. -Bill Hawley |
Stuttgart, Germany | Well, we definitely had some highs and lows during the days. We started off with a truck breakdown in the high alpine and a car crash in the same night. Luckily nobody got hurt except of the massive lack of sleep we somehow had to cope with in the following days. My action highlight was Antoine Bizet's front flip over the river gap. What a machine that guy is - he slept during the whole drive to the river, got off the car, nailed the front, got back in the car and went back to sleep - awesome! All in all, the biggest highlight was working with all the guys from my 50/50 crew, you rock. -Christoph Laue |
| You need to prepare the spots, for example to rebuild Cam McCaul's old river gap for Antione Bizet's frontflip. As I hadn't been to Whistler Blackcomb before, it took me some time to explore the area. It was fun to get to know the Sea-to-Sky Corridor with the locals. It was amazing to meet so many amazing and helpful people in such a short amount of time. Hopefully there will be a next time, so I can put all my experience into a new slideshow. -Christoph Laue |
Toowoomba, Australia | [The highlight for me was] finally being able to sleep after it was done. Seriously though, getting to work with such a rad team of people that were down to go above and beyond the call of duty to get the job done. Even if that meant hitting 35+ foot senders at 5am in the alpine before breakfast. -Toby Cowley |
| It's a lot of work for sure, I can't really speak for the other photographers but I began planning my show months in advance. Building a solid team, developing a unique concept, location scouting/building etc. it all takes up a lot of time. -Toby Cowley |
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here. Ale Di Lullo Paris Gore Christoph Laue Toby CowleySean St. DenisBill Hawley
kolya
(Aug 10, 2015 at 14:34)