Self-portrait dropping into Neihu District. There's about a 15 minute window where the light is right to get this shot, on the 4th night I nailed it just before a thunderstorm rolled in and it rained for a week straight. *Despite the appearance all the lights are actually mounted backwards under the seat and behind my helmet to leave a trail while riding away from the camera. 20 second exposure on a 10 second delay, flash remotely fired from my handlebar.
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- DH Racing
- Date Posted
- Aug 16, 2014 at 10:14Aug 16, 2014
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Taipei, Taiwan
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- 5 Finger Mountain
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- Me
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YoungPedalwon
(Sep 10, 2014 at 0:50)
And I cant even take a good selfie
- 3 8
Is this photoshopped or something??. look at his back.... it's completely see through 
not being critical this is a wicked shot but this seems odd
not being critical this is a wicked shot but this seems odd- 3 3
Normally you can use a flash to freeze the action in a certain point. which i blieve he wouold have done here, but i dont know if you can do it for such a long exposure
- 5 0
His back is see through as it is a long exposure shot, as he has since moved since the opening of the shutter, the camera also had time to capture some of the background of what was behind him for the rest of the shot after he triggered the flash.
- 7 0
At a guess;
Long exposure on the city scape and the light trail which highlights the trail.
Manual flash burst when rider comes into shot...
No shooping IMO - other than the normal colouring / levels etc.
Simplified, but so well thought out and executed.
Great work.
Long exposure on the city scape and the light trail which highlights the trail.
Manual flash burst when rider comes into shot...
No shooping IMO - other than the normal colouring / levels etc.
Simplified, but so well thought out and executed.
Great work.
- 6 0
With it being so dark a single flash can easy freeze motion on an exposure this long. My back is transparent because the flash is hidden in the rocks below and in front of me on a slight angle, thus no light ever hits my back or the very top of my head. A second flash behind might fix this but it would likely be visible in the shot and possibly light up too much of the surroundings, both of which I very much wanted to avoid. Though not completely intentional, I rather like the 'ghost' look to it and in fact once I figured out how to set everything up over the first few nights, the biggest challenge was getting a shot with just the right balance sharp rider and transparency (I have quite a few headless looking outtakes). Again, this probably would have been easier if this wasn't a self-portrait and I didn't have to fire the flash from my handlebar while bouncing over the rocks.