Gore Sunrise Park Shoot

I had the awesome opportunity to get a sunrise park shoot on WIld Air last sunday. Mr. Pratt helped me organize the shoot and pull it together. We (myself and 4 of my friends/skiers) were picked up at the base at 7:15am by two partolers on sleds and pulled up to the jump line on Wild Air. They gave us laps on the jump line (about 15 or so) until the mountain opened to public. The lighting was amazing and patrol/park crew really helped out. Have a look at some of the best pictures and watch the video. Hope you Enjoy!

 Henry with the Backflip
 Will with the Tail 900
 Greg with the Mute 720
 Trevor with the Rodeo 360
 Getting towed back up!

Nice video. How'd you get those 'aerial' shots? Camera-on-a-stick? Well done...

bean valley wrote

 How'd you get those 'aerial' shots? Camera-on-a-stick? Well done...

 Aerial shots were taken from a remote control quadcopter, its essentially a drone. Glad you liked the video.

That landing is practically in the trees.

COOL STUFF DUDES!!  Quadcopter??  

tjf1967 wrote

 Quadcopter??

Yes, its a helicopter with 4 rotors for added stability and versatility. makes for some cool shots.

Incredibly well done!  Music, time-lapse, use of the drone.

I like it when the technology enhances the work, but doesn't dominate or become the focus.

AWESOME work buddy.

Nice job fellas---very cool

And to think when I was a kid we used to get in trouble for building "jumps"

suhweeet, great skiing and camera work for sure

You, sir, are truly an artist.

ski2moro wrote

You, sir, are truly an artist.

+1

For all us technofile geeks, can you give us a pic of the chopper?
I had the pleasure of working with the guys who invented the rig used to do Google street view, that was one cool piece of video equipment.

The drone:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=495149887202166

Harvey44 wrote

The drone:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=495149887202166

Link is broken

 may be hard to see, best picture I had. GoPro is mounted to the front

Didn't see the pic when I first responded.
WOW - the internal controls for stabilization for that must be quite an engineering feat.
Are the motors electric or gas?
Just looking at it I have a million questions on the controls.

DackerDan wrote

WOW - the internal controls for stabilization for that must be quite an engineering feat.
Are the motors electric or gas?
Just looking at it I have a million questions on the controls.

It has some pretty hi-tech systems in it. The NAZA flight control system and the GPS system make for an easy and fluid flight in all conditions. Battery powered motors. Battery life is around 15 minutes but sunday morning when it was -6, the battery life was about 8 minutes.

Yea - that makes sense, I suspected that it was a short flight time electric, battery weight would be an issue. Electric motors are easier to control. Maybe one day we will meet and I can look it over.

DackerDan wrote

Maybe one day we will meet and I can look it over.

Well if your at Gore and see a kid flying a quadcopter around its most likely me!

DackerDan wrote

Harvey44 wrote

The drone:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=495149887202166

Link is broken

Link is a Facebook video of the drone. Works for me, maybe you have to be logged in to FB, or friends to see it.  I NZ sends me the code I may be able to embed.

That's another awesome still.