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FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY

Come home with something worth showing. Real camera craft applied to action: the shutter and exposure decisions that separate cinematic from stuttery, composition that makes a rider look fast, action camera and 360 workflow, drone and FPV pursuit, field craft that keeps gear alive in cold and salt, and the edit that turns a week of clips into a film people finish watching.

Curriculum
10 lessons
Free Preview
5 lessons
Modules
4
Status
In production

Skills You Will Develop

Exposure & Shutter DisciplineComposition for SpeedReading LightAction Camera Craft360 ReframingMount SelectionDrone & FPV WorkField Care of GearThe Edit

Who It Is For

beginnerYou film every trip on a phone or action cam and none of it is watchable. Start here.
intermediateYou know your camera but your action footage still looks flat and slow.
advancedShooting for real: drones, FPV chase, multi-camera days and a deliverable edit.

Gear Covered

  • Any camera you own, phone included
  • Action camera: standard or 360
  • ND filters: the cheapest big upgrade
  • Mounts: more angles than you think
  • Drone (and the licence rules for where you fly)
  • Spare batteries and a warm pocket
  • Fast cards, and twice as many as you planned
  • A backup drive for the field
Fifteen Years In

All 10 lessons below are written, and every one of them came out of riding this terrain rather than reading about it. Film is shot on the trips we run, so each lesson is captured where it is taught. Book a trip that runs this discipline and its full library comes with your booking.

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Put $200 down on a trip that runs this discipline and its libraries unlock today - the deposit comes straight off the trip when you book.

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Want it coached, not just read?

We run in-person coaching in your home town before your trip - a fraction of what a day costs once the flights, hire and lift passes have started. Groups on the same trip split the travel.

Coaching for film & photography

Full Curriculum

Camera Craft
Exposure, Shutter and Why Your Action Footage Looks Wrong12 minRead freeComposition and Movement: Making a Rider Look Fast12 minRead freeLight: Golden Hour, Flat Light and the Snow Problem13 minFull
Action Cameras & Drones
Action Camera Craft: Settings, Mounts and 360 Reframing12 minRead freeMounting: Angles That Are Worth Watching13 minFullDrones: Flying, Following and Doing It Legally12 minRead freeFPV and the Chase: Cinematic Pursuit Shots13 minFull
The Trip Film
Field Craft: Cold, Wet, Dust and Battery Discipline13 minFullThe Edit: Building a Trip Film People Actually Watch13 minFull
Field Kit and Regulation
Action Cameras and Drones: Climate, Regulation and Hard Lessons14 minRead free

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These sports kill people. Not rarely, and not only the reckless - every season they kill riders who were experienced, fit, well equipped and doing everything properly. That is the honest starting position and everything else we do sits on top of it.

The mountain does not know who you are. Snow releases on people with twenty years in it. Machines roll on riders who have done that line a hundred times. Water, rock, trees and other people are indifferent to how good you have become. Every time you go out you are accepting a real chance that it goes wrong, and no amount of skill removes that chance - it only changes the odds.

What that looks like in these disciplines, plainly: avalanche burial and asphyxiation, being crushed under a machine, head and spinal injuries from falls and impacts, drowning, hypothermia, and collisions with trees, rocks and other riders.

We work in remote country, so distance is part of it. A serious injury usually means hours before a helicopter can reach you, and weather sometimes means no helicopter at all. Help being close is not a feature of any trip we run.

This is exactly why we prepare the way we do. Training before you ride, gear standards, minimum party sizes, people who know the ground, and a willingness to call a day off. All of it is about improving your odds and making the group capable of looking after itself. None of it makes anything safe, none of it makes anyone competent, and passing our training is not a qualification. Anybody who tells you they can make this safe is selling something.

Everyone out there is relying on everyone else having been honest about what they can actually do. If reading this has made you hesitate, that is worth listening to rather than talking yourself out of.

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