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We're here in Avers, Switzerland to shoot my Ice Nights project.
I had the idea a couple of months ago on a recent Himalaya trip
with Alex Luger and Bernd Zangerl.
We did some night shots with Bernd climbing a high wall with flashes
and it was just amazing.
So, the idea came to my head to do this with ice climbing.
Alex told us about this location right beside a bridge
so we can work easily with the flashes and be really flexible.
I connected with Broncolor for some flash equipment
and they provided us with the brand new Move 1200.
We're going to use three of those units to light up the ice fall,
going studio style outdoors, so it should be amazing.
There is quite a few photographers shooting climbing or ice climbing
but most images are shot with natural light and with minimal equipment
but in this case I'm trying to bring it all together.
We got in touch with Phase One and they've sent the IQ180 with a 645DF so...
We're going to make some big pictures!
Not too shabby.
I'll come down and chat with you in a minute.
Hey Alex, good to see you!
So let's go check it out!
Super nice location...
...there's a lot of possibilities here to work with our flashes.
We're going to have one flash maybe from this tree, a guy hanging out with a pole,
and that's going to flash down so it might be a bit in your eyes,
you have to tell us.
We want to try to put maybe a flash behind the ice.
With the last flash, we had it over there but I think I'm going to move it in,
so that I actually bring the other flash somewhere underneath the bridge.
But if you shoot from here, is it still okay when I climb the center pillar?
Yeah, that would be the plan.
I thought you'd just climb the center pillar and then we get you popping out from the ice.
So, it started to get colder now, the sun is dropping out.
We're just going to wait until it gets dark and then start shooting.