This is a TINY little 2' drop, the place is really ugly and really hard to shoot, figured I'd shoot this baby drop with a fisheye and get close, making it look gnarlier than it is.
For the flare conspiracy theorists: here is a pic of all dozen or so RAW files and note all of them have the nasty flash flare http://craigglaspell.com/idiots.jpg
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- DH Racing
- Date Posted
- Nov 23, 2009 at 9:49Nov 23, 2009
- Location
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Temecula, California, United States
- Trail
- Fontana World Championships
- Riders
- David Klassenvanoorschot
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iwanaryd-mybicycl
(Nov 23, 2009 at 19:32)
is that flare real or an effect?
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stinkyboy09 - WTF! youve just disrespected the photographer! a bike doesnt just get this sort of picture on its own, plus the photography work is immense and if hes telling the truth to get a pic this good with no photoshop at all is pretty dam good if you ask me 
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is taht the lense thats makeing the forks look like they r bent or are they just flexin a shit load?
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Hey all! wow, super cool this made POD! woohoo. Thanks for all the kind words, thanks to the haters too, good to hear both sides of the spectrum. Funny some think i added that 'flare', how gross, I never would add one of those cheesy elements, it is my other strobe that is flaring. And at 100% there is surprisingly a lot of sharp/in focus elements, wasnt enough flash freeze to make it all sharp, it was hella sunny. Not much you can do at this race for cool pics, its so ugly out there, so it is what it is. Thanks again everyone. Stikman www.craigglaspell.com
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Sweet pic. If youre getting the flash in the shot i was wondering why you would use it at that angle when you're shooting straight at it.? It looks pretty light there, Obv i don't know the exact conditions, but it looks like you couldve put it further right just out of frame? At least thats what i would usually try to do. Still, really cool!
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Hey Porter, send me an email and I will send you the other images from this section, all with the same flash-until I moved it out of the way. I can show you the raw file as well. Not that I give a f_ck if you believe me or not, just find it crazy you think I would add something so wack as a 'fake flare'
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Please do not get caught up in the flame wars here. Most of these pre pubescent kids wouldnt know what an SLR was if it was shot out of a Canon... Your photos will get recognition here because its sport specific but your efforts will get recognition on the other photo specific sights that you utilize.
...... oh yeah cool pic.. but look a PLANE! - 3 2
everyone on here needs to find soething more productive to do with their lives other than sit on here criticizing other peoples work. seriously.....
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unless its constructive critisizm. i like critisizm on my photos as long as its going to be constructive.
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Yeah, but unfortunately it's hardly ever constructive here... normally like the guy just above this post... "he's not doing a trick, this sux!" kinda thing & that's not very helpful or constructive. Go to Photosig.com if you want to crit photos.
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If you read the above comment from the photographer, the "Flare" is actually his flash. Nice shot though!
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or if you had read the description, where the photog'r put down 6 lines of explaination about the flare.....
3rd bozo to miss the completely obvious :/
3rd bozo to miss the completely obvious :/
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flash is to perfect to be real and the fact his leg doesnt stop the light shows its photoshoped if u look half the flare is over his leg, now legs cant reflect like that.
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You guys are good fun...dont know if links appear on this thing, but here is a pic of ALL the RAW files I shot. You can not edit a raw file and save it as a raw file (note the .cr2 naming). Note most all these shots have that darn flash in them, the reason I only shot a dozen or so pics before moving to the next spot. Well, I actually moved because people were SO sketchy off that tiny rock, I got scared and bailed. craigglaspell.com/idiots.jpg
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If you read the above comment from the photographer, the "Flare" is actually his flash. Nice shot though!
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Unless you've ever used a DSLR and shot into the sun/ a bright light source then you can be forgiven for thinking it's fake. For instance, i can tell you just by looking at the flare that the lens the photographer is using has 7 aperture blades. And from that i can tell that it's probably the Nikon 10.5mm fisheye. If you're not into photography you wouldn't be expected to know these things, would you?
PROPS ON A GREAT PIC AND WELL DESERVED POD.
PROPS ON A GREAT PIC AND WELL DESERVED POD.
