Maxi Dickerhoff at unknown in Garmisch, Germany - photo by hanussen

Cope teamrider Maxi Dickerhoff on the Wank trails over Garmisch. First snow free weekend in January. www.manuelsulzer.de // www.cope-cycles.de

Photo of the Day on Mar 20, 2011 - more PODs

Selected by Ian Hylands - The first thing that struck me about this photo is the rider's position. It looks like he's going off a small drop on a trail that is winding around the side of the hill, yet he still managed to put a decent bit of style into it. I like that the focus in the image is split between the out of focus foreground and the in focus subject and background, and that the line of focus is a diagonal top left to bottom right. The line created by the focus helps to make the image more dramatic...

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adamlabarthe (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:02)

i like every thing about it

MTBbros Plus (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:03)

Defiantly deserves POD! Super crisp.

killacali (Mar 20, 2011 at 2:35)

dont have to worry bout tire treads when u fly over the ground...nice pic

DEgenerationX (Mar 20, 2011 at 3:10)

uuh i like my birthday POD ! Big Grin

jhowlett (Mar 20, 2011 at 8:15)

nice pic

bikerguy222 (Mar 20, 2011 at 10:58)

Nice ADAM!

SHEESHKAH (Mar 20, 2011 at 12:02)

His red shirt really sticks out among the browns and greens as well.

xxslopestylerider9x (Mar 20, 2011 at 15:47)

awesome pick of the pod. What bike is that?Norco Shore?

hanussen (Mar 20, 2011 at 16:02)

It's a Cope Statement from a new german brand. Check out: www.copecycles.de

xxslopestylerider9x (Mar 21, 2011 at 16:58)

sick man, They've got some awesome builds

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picharkin (Mar 20, 2011 at 8:35)

Great depth of field & using it as a lead in - lighting is nicely balanced as well between ambient & flash - great work & props to the rider!

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hanussen (Mar 20, 2011 at 14:35)

Thanks Ian for choosing this picture as POD. And thanks to everyone else for your comments. Here's the picture a bit bigger: http://www.manuelsulzer.de/sonstiges/IMG_3933_1600x_web.jpg

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Mati66 (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:38)

great shot for sure !! excellent colors and my dream fork Big Grin

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extention (Mar 20, 2011 at 15:21)

I like the shot but just a bit to much out of focus foreground for my liking

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ccvl Plus (Mar 13, 2011 at 16:40)

Something different.....I like it!

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codered3 (Mar 20, 2011 at 12:50)

Perfect shot, diggin the slight off camberness

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paulcram (Mar 20, 2011 at 12:39)

Dislike - over sharpened!

IanHylands Mod Plus (Mar 20, 2011 at 14:35)

It's very barely oversharpened, and it may have something to do with the site as well...

I'm still working on the sharpening algorithm, and it really only works well if you upload an image that's big enough... The image uploaded was 1000px, and it's been resized to 800 then sharpened. The same amount of sharpening that would be applied to an image that was 2000 px and resized to 800. If you want the image to look perfect at 800 it needs to be uploaded at 800, then the site will apply no sharpening to it. However the smaller sizes will possibly be a bit oversharpened. As it is now the site is optimized for images that are uploaded at 1600 px.

hanussen (Mar 20, 2011 at 14:45)

... still too used on downsizing my pictures to 1000px and uploading them in this size. Hope to improve on that Wink

For more details and sharpnes matters, see the 1600px version posted bellow...

Ian, as I already mentioned in a mail before: How about letting the user decide to not sharpen the image on upload?

IanHylands Mod Plus (Mar 20, 2011 at 17:36)

Unfortunately as images are resampled smaller they need to be sharpened or they lose quality very quickly, so the only option would be to not sharpen the largest size. Right now if the image is downsampled more than 5% it gets sharpened, that way when you upload a large image and it's downsampled to 1024, 800, 500, and 250 pixels it looks pretty good at every size. If you want to have no sharpening at the POD size (which is 800 pixels wide), simply upload an image at 800 pixels exactly and it won't be resized or sharpened.

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duffer44 Plus (Mar 20, 2011 at 8:45)

the trees that are close up are soooo small its weird

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konasam101 (Mar 24, 2011 at 21:14)

sketchy angle, by the way nice helm. lol

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fabiomiranda (Mar 24, 2011 at 8:56)

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/187568/

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meta-and-two-veg (Mar 20, 2011 at 14:36)

Wank trails! Teeheehee!

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DownHillCooper (Mar 20, 2011 at 15:27)

its a little too dramatic

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danielbranco (Mar 20, 2011 at 6:57)

6666 views...xD

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lightningskull (Mar 20, 2011 at 16:32)

something a bit different, sweet.

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Herndonmtb (Mar 20, 2011 at 16:10)

im not a fan of the hylands explanation these days... ohwell. sick shot though.

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pokalface (Mar 20, 2011 at 7:16)

maybe its a B O S ,POD btw

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BuffnStuff (Mar 14, 2011 at 9:38)

i love the scenery and colors.POD

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elbry (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:46)

cool shot

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freeagentkid (Mar 20, 2011 at 17:05)

awe thats cute

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smithy5 (Mar 20, 2011 at 7:10)

what forks are they ?

Joelrider (Mar 20, 2011 at 17:20)

BOS engeniring, some people say that is better than fox and I think it to but they are more expensive than fox more than 2000€
BOS Ydle pro
http://www.bosmtb.com/

Ploutre (Jul 14, 2011 at 5:26)

Actually it's the N'dee ("old" single crown FR/DH fork, now replaced by the Idylle SC). It has the same internals and lowers as the regular dual crown DH fork the Idylle, just single crown and lowered to 180mm.

And yeah, lot of people say they are better than Fox, but the DH ones are expensive. The enduro one, the Deville is not that expensive. Same with the shocks, they're not too far from Fox.

I wish I had the money to buy one ^^

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WellDone (Mar 14, 2011 at 10:47)

gefällt!

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maxtowers (Mar 20, 2011 at 18:21)

Another sweet pics...

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adammoore (Mar 20, 2011 at 20:47)

sick!

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konagoern Plus (Mar 13, 2011 at 15:22)

yes mann!

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817moto (Mar 13, 2011 at 15:29)

callin it now...this will get POD

FeBrewAry (Mar 13, 2011 at 19:08)

Ya Im gunna call it too. I think your right. Its an awesome shot

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freddex90 (Mar 22, 2011 at 1:01)

nice shot

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duopkik (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:00)

Sweet helmet!!

elbry (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:46)

ye good old d2 open

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MTBbros Plus (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:00)

So Crisp!

gavin-t (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:02)

defo POD worthy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ndburns (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:30)

Ian Hylands may really like this photo, and he has a great explination saying why. But I donot like the photo, and I have no explination. /end POD complaint

nicdoesdh (Mar 20, 2011 at 1:27)

true.

ChineseAlan (Mar 20, 2011 at 15:44)

Wank trails? great shot btw...

Th3-Firestarter (Mar 20, 2011 at 18:20)

LOL I noticed the wank trails bit too. Must mean something completely different in German.

nicdoesdh (Mar 21, 2011 at 0:15)

'dickerhoff' lololololol

ChineseAlan (Mar 23, 2011 at 7:05)

Firestarter, Yeah man it must

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DOUBLETHREE (Mar 20, 2011 at 9:08)

VERY NICE

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Matthew233 (Mar 20, 2011 at 5:33)

pretty sick.

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benjamin69 (Mar 20, 2011 at 5:46)

Cool pic , nice dh pony

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JordieGT (Mar 20, 2011 at 12:38)

nice'n crispy Big Grin

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blackjack16 (Mar 20, 2011 at 5:26)

schön schön

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motomachine (Mar 20, 2011 at 6:09)

BEAST EVRYTHING

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energiemg (Mar 20, 2011 at 1:05)

another great pod. congratulation Smile

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boogiel (Mar 20, 2011 at 2:18)

oh, shit, this is awesome!!!

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nunukula (Mar 13, 2011 at 15:20)

sag mal, warst du gestern in Deuringen?

hanussen (Mar 13, 2011 at 15:20)

Nee :-)

Andrewmiltimore (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:01)

such nice lighting

jhb11 (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:02)

Sick shot!

dhlover88 (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:03)

forget all the ppl who forgot about biking for a couple months to ski, this makes me want to ride so bad! nice shot

BaileyRoberts (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:03)

open face FTW

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daigneauu (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:04)

somebody is about to snipe that tree

kainedavis (Mar 20, 2011 at 1:18)

Dope shot!!!!
DIG THE HELMET!!

adoknjas (Mar 21, 2011 at 20:14)

rocking the halfcut full face and goggles.... what more style could you ask for?

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SickyNarNar (Mar 20, 2011 at 23:59)

BRAAPP

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JacksonStott (Mar 20, 2011 at 0:56)

meh

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