Yet another well deserved PoD for eric!
Props dude, sweet shot,
everything here works so well!

turnd down all the way

Thats a sick shot, props on that man. POD for sure.

thats sweeeet!!! sick trick sick shot!! POD all the way!

WOW!!!

That is such a sweet photo!! The lighting's amazing!

i dont even no which way he is goin

hahaha i know aye.. i was thinking from right to left?

Yeah its definitely right to left, its also definitely a sick shot.
awesome POD

Wow sweet photo. Definately POD

Damn! your hard to catch up with! congrats Eric! Great shot!

Thanks guys!
Dennis: Haha Yeah, it was ur turn next... now u gonna have to get 2 in a row

& yeah, he's goin right to left

Sick Shot, that pic looks soo sweet with the black sky, props to the photograper and the rider

How many do you have now Eric?

This is No. 9 if my calculations are correct.

i do believe it's 9 if i'm not mistaken?
and i'm sure one or two more will come out from dirtopia.
they have to.
there are some AMAZING shots there
really

Don't lie Johnty!

Yes, Congrats Eric on POD! You are killing the photos at Dirtopia, looks really fun.

Thanks man!
Ooh, damn man, Dirtopia was sooo good... just too short, need abt 2 weeks of it. Guess there's always next yr.

two weeks of dirtopia????
i will not be able to survive that
i barely got through three days.

eric, i'm no lying....

Haha, u shoulda come on thursday then!
U just gotta learn to land on those rubbery bits under the bike & not flat on ur side

Oh, sorry, what... I though... nah.

oh you thought i was NA!

hahaha and those nights dudes. wild times
wildtimes

yeah man, craziest fun I've had in a while... amped for MORE!!!

next year we'll go even bigger

GNAR!

good critique.

are those starssss?

the lil white spot top right is the moon... the rest is just cloud

what about the diddy light to the left of the photo?

I think that's the reflection of my flash on a car's lights

Well, I spose it's either that or someone bitching about too many berm shots... always someone to complain, so thanks for being today's.

Thanks man!
There is a bit of grain in the top corners & darker areas from the HDR trying to lighten it too much. The rest is just from jpg compression...

Congrats though, i'm sure this is only one of many more to come.

hahaha, sorry man, my bad! I won't do it again!!!
Thanks, lets hope so!

That's a lie and you know it, POD's come natural to you now.

no, it's a turndown...

no.... that is a look back, check yourself.

this is a turndown: http://www.interbmx.nulld.com/img/0704/InterBMX.com.3854.05.224854.jpg

this is a look back: http://www.randombmx.com/blogger/uploaded_images/Muzza_Turndown-782338.jpg



turndowns are supposed to up and down, not sideways.

even though the second photo is labeled incorrectly as a turndown, you should be able to see the difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt2YiEm7zIc&feature=related

Thanks... then this is a turnback & lookdown, coz he was abt 45 degrees haha
His back end was def dipped a bit & the fisheye makes it look a bit more level than it is, but I guess this one is between a turndown & a lookback then?
The only way I'm 100% sure of them is on quarters, turndown wheels up & lookback wheels down... on jumps it's kinda tricky, coz there is a "no trick zone" between level & straight up, so what goes on there?

ahhh, yes there is the odd zone... maybe everything in that zone is just a tweak of some sort?



I love the picture, just thought it was labeled incorrectly, after going back through some of my pictures, I can see how that angle does throw things off a bit.

I just looked for a lookback vid too & they only show them on quarters & most of the guys there didn't know the diff between the 2 anyway haha aah, all of them are on quarters, cant find any over straight jumps.

Who invented them, I'll send him an e-mail & find out, it's buggin me now haha
As far as I knew, over straight jumps anything other than level is a turndown & lookbacks are level, but if BMXers get confused about it how the hell am I (a fruitbooter) gonna work it all out?!?!
Thanks man glad u like it & thanks for the help, I was completely clueless a few months ago, but am learnin pretty fast.

left one

now thats frikin extention

haha, have 10 so far

Thanks man!

not bad not bad!

Um, it will differ slightly from cam to cam, but I normally have my WB on shady to warm the shot up a bit. I do push the colours a bit in post, but not all that much coz it looks really cheap if you push them too far. You could also check in your cam's menu & push the saturation up a notch. Otherwise I just try to get my lighting & exposure right & that helps the most I think.

also shooting in a low ISO will help bring out a better black color with less noise and more vivid shots. also what i like to do for a cool effect is set up a tripod and shoot the frame in HDR and then regular exposure with the rider in it and either use the rider photo in the HDR combination or brush the rider in on another layer.

The best solution then would be to shoot on bright sunny days, or get some flashes.
Also keep your aperture as wide as possible, will give a shallow dept of field, so make sure ur focus is in the right spot, but that will give the fastest speed ur cam will get & unless you have flashes or the sun is nice & bright you might have to push your ISO up to get enough speed to freeze the rider. Try to shoot with the sun as much as possible too so u don't get a silhouette unless you want that.

+1 for flashes

this pic has a REALLY elaborate lighting situation going on too

haha, yeah, I borrowed 2 of Wayne's flashes, so had a 4 flash setup on some of these, was fun to play with

The problem then is there is not much light to get a good exposure with enough speed & keeping ur ISO down on 100. Low light you either shoot slow with flash or fast with high ISO. Flash option is WAY better if you can afford it.

Yeah, flash is good to have for action, coz the sun is not at the right spot 99% of the time & I use the flashes as a fill light on sunny days & then in low light you can really have fun & get ur lighting really good & get the rider to pop & play with other techniques & then ur speed doesn't matter so much coz the flash burst freezes the rider.
Ooh man, in photography anything good is really expensive... you pay for quality... & if you get a cheap lens you get a cheap quality, so for lenses I suggest you save a bit & get summin good.

Sweet man, pleasure... hope it's helping & that I make sense.
Peace

Hahaha Cool!
Yeah, wide angle is cool. If I could have 3 lenses for the action shots I'd have to go for a 10mm fisheye, 24-70mm f2.8 & a 70-200mm f2.8.... they all pretty pricey, but as I said, you pay for quality & a good lens can last for life if you look after it.

Sweet man, it's looking good so far!

I have a D70 & mainly use that for the action & a D200