ERIK SEO EXPLAINS OCTOBER COVER
ERIK SEO EXPLAINS OCTOBER COVER
Listen to Park City Photographer Talk About His First Cover
On a chilly night in Park City, Erik Seo and Tanner Hall worked together to
produce the cover image of the October 2009 issue, Volume 38 Number 2. It’s
Hall’s second Powder cover and Seo’s first. Click the play button to listen
to Seo explain the night in all its glory and how he shot such a stunning
image.
Transcription from interview:
It feels very good to get my first U.S. cover, especially since it’s the
cover of Powder. I grew up reading Powder. Every time it came, I read it
cover to cover. They’re all still sitting around in boxes. I think I have as
old as ’89. I look back through occasionally this time of the year to see if
there’s something that inspires me. Some of those photos are timeless. Some
things aren’t gonna change; there’s still gonna be that ridiculously deep
pow shot with 7 a.m. light.
As for the shoot, it was the most elaborate setup for lights that I’ve seen
go into a photo shoot. The PoorBoyz crew brought in these five lights that
were the size of high school stadium lighting. As far as my lighting goes, I
brought everything I had plus another lighting kit from a friend of mine.
The plan was to spend the late afternoon getting set up, but it was a lot
more work than we expected. It was really cold. It got below zero overnight
while we were there. By the time we actually got going it was about 10 p.m.
The pipe didn’t even get cut till 8 p.m. Tanner was chilling out for a
while, then, I don’t know where he went. We were all in our own little world
getting set up. Hopefully he went to warm up.
I had my two big lights on each side of the pipe. To get the green effect
you put gels in front of the lights. The gels are colored plastic sheets and
they require a lot more power. I was shooting with my Nikon D3. I switched
over to Nikon about a year ago, so I was pretty new with the camera.
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