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96 Comments
  • 8645
 too much HDR kills it
  • 2423
 true brother. feel like i'm tripping on acid looking at this. shame, as it's such a huge extension and so well composed!
  • 11417
 I really don't feel that this has too much HDR at all, but that's just me.
  • 244
 Maybe that's what the photographer intended. I think it does well to accentuate the rider and the direct environment around him. The bike frame and the rider's arm is really popping out at me, and usually pictures like this don't do that but rather, focuses on the trick. Rider looks miniature!
  • 333
 There's something about the green glow around front wheel that really bothers me :/
  • 920
flag frdh (May 10, 2012 at 3:45) (Below Threshold)
 Maybe thats a saturation issue.. I've seen hdr shots that are WAY more hdr than this one
  • 70
 someone calls superman?
  • 62
 I like it
  • 605
 There is no such thing really as "too much HDR". HDR is short for High Dynamic Range and it's a way of combining several identical photos with different exposures to create one image with detail in the shadows as well as the highlights. An HDR image contains information that goes beyond the normal dynamic range of the sensor in the camera.
This is not an HDR image, this has probably just had the shadows lightened a bit and the highlights pulled a bit, maybe the saturation pushed a little.
If you don't like it what you're probably really meaning to say is you don't like the lack of contrast in it, or you'd like the blacks to be darker.
Personally I really like this one, it seems very close to the way we really see things. Except for a few halo's of course.
  • 123
 As a photographer I know this, and just didn't want to get into the highlight/shadow adjustment detail, I just used the term HDR instead. The problem here is that the darker portions, which lack information (the common issue with camera CMOS sensors being that the darker the recorded "color", the less there is information) have been lightened, and as there is not much information in these portions of the image, it looks artificial.

Also the CA on the wheel are pretty nasty to be observable at this image size.

But all in all, this is an amazing MTB trick, I'm not contesting that, just saying the pp could have been a bit more subtle, plus a flash directed on the rider could have helped.

But sick trick.
  • 170
 Looks like he is wearing pink crocs! lol
  • 915
flag nouser (May 10, 2012 at 9:15) (Below Threshold)
 Everybody's a critic. Pinkbike is a website based on RIDING, not photography. I don't understand why everyone always has to complain about a picture because it's not 100% to their liking. Who cares! Appreciate the riding, not the quality of the picture! Especially not down to the point that you are complaining about color enhancements.
  • 45
 The sun light is abit too bright.
  • 82
 SwintOrSlude the halo on the wheel isn't CA, it's an artifact that's created by the highlight and shadow adjustments in an area where there is a lot of contrast. It's too small of an image for me to personally be able to see any loss of detail in the shadows. You should try LR4, the new processing allows amazing control of whites blacks highlights and shadows.
  • 61
 bscar, settle down bud before you wet yourself. It's a tad too touched up for me but that superman seat grab is unreal. Oh and this picture screams instagram Wink
  • 50
 You guys are a tough crowd....
  • 52
 bscar, you only contribute to it when you bitch and whine yourself about the people bitching and whining... get over it. Also it'd be tight to see this picture before all the touch ups just to see how different he really made it.
  • 41
 is it! wow you can really ride...and nice shoes!
  • 26
flag scott-townes (May 10, 2012 at 11:57) (Below Threshold)
 Hahaha, bscar, you're such an adorable clown. To the other riders who don't have their panties in a bunch over what people are saying about a picture on an internet site, here's another picture of the same jump and it looks like this one isn't edited as much but it could easily be the difference in light. www.pinkbike.com/photo/8063284

That setup looks insanely sick and huge looking through that album.
  • 10
 agreed, exposure is nice, front wheel halo isnt the best looking but overall, awesome!
  • 11
 Sick pic, especially cuz it's on my birthday Big Grin
  • 10
 Stop complaining, and just admit its a super nice shot! Dont think that you guys can do it much better, you are complaining about small things like the sun is to bright and other shit. Who cares just stop whining!
  • 10
 ^ because it wouldn't be pinkbike without all of the people complainin! Beer
  • 10
 Why complain on what people try to creat something nice, give them tips instead how they can improve instead of whining! I would not be so glad to see many comments that just say the pic sucks when you mabe worked your as of to get one nice shot like this!
  • 170
 Must be those pink shoes...
  • 111
 DAMNNNN!!! now thats a superman! wish we could see it in a larger format.. Frown
  • 36
 Hyper extension at the waste, an actual 110% effort. Great photo
  • 73
 neat
  • 70
 Avengers
  • 62
 I feel like this is the Wizard of Oz and he's Dorothy following the trail with his red shoes to find his inner biking self. Just sayin..... Smile
  • 50
 Man in the backgrounds just posted an insurance claim for a broken ego
"I suck"
  • 72
 Love the dust trail to the jump! Best dirt jump POD in ages!
  • 50
 agreed man. it was time for a banger like this!
  • 31
 I don't see a dust trail...
  • 10
 My mistake, maybe it's just lighter earth. Seemed like dust at first glance.
  • 40
 Is that a 29er Dj bike? looks kind of big compared to the guy... I've heard they're fast those big wheels
  • 30
 I was thinking that as well. Just looks that way. Must be the lens.
  • 10
 Anyone know what frame this is?
  • 10
 It looks like a Dartmoor Two6 Player.
  • 10
 was just kiddin' - paeeeeRRRRd-spective
  • 41
 Haha, I can do that trick! Except never been able to bring it back. nice shot! Full extension and radical colors!
  • 40
 Amazing Shot!
  • 30
 Damn! nice shot! larger format, please..
  • 30
 my favourit trickBig Grin
so big:>
  • 64
 today, the cynic in me says this shot should have been pod instead

www.pinkbike.com/photo/8063284
  • 14
 yeah! take the power back.. check the anarchic p to the o then the d (haha)
  • 40
 so sick
  • 30
 I hate most HDRs but this is not that bad.
  • 30
 best pod i've seen in a while
  • 30
 nice compo, kill HDR damn good
  • 20
 If I had a Dollar for everytime i saw an exstension that big, i would have $1.
  • 41
 great angle, POD !
  • 30
 EXTENSION!!!!
  • 30
 simme kills the trails!
  • 30
 good shotSmile
  • 30
 over extended Smile
  • 30
 so clear
  • 30
 He almost looks robotic
  • 30
 It is cool here！！
  • 30
 yeaaaaaaaah men!
  • 30
 what a shot
  • 42
 Don't think this deserves POD being honest
  • 30
 Large
  • 30
 It looks photoshop
  • 30
 Siiiick !
  • 30
 perfect Smile
  • 30
 SWEET!!!
  • 10
 i dont usually like supermans but when there done like that you got to love em
  • 53
 oh my POD!
  • 20
 over gap? Wink
  • 25
 it's a great IMAGE but a Super FAKE HDR.... High-dynamic-range (HDR) photos are generally achieved by capturing multiple photographs often using exposure bracketing, and then merging them into an HDR image Since this was just ONE image it makes it a SUPER FAKE HDR... :-)
  • 52
 You can't say a picture achieved by only one exposure is a "fake HDR photo". HDR says like you wrote high dymanic range and can be achieved in different ways. One is by using bracketing (like I do when I shoot interior/exterior for estate agents) or, by bring home highlights and shadows. The best way though is by bying a better camera with higher DR, ex. a Hasselblad. The picture has been processed to have high dynamic range, but how can it be fake? Bracketing was no choice (and will never be in sports where there's speed involved) and the choice stood between this or a silhouette picture and I choose to do it like this.
  • 27
flag davidt (May 10, 2012 at 5:51) (Below Threshold)
 A real HDR image requires you to take 1 Photo, of the same Exact thing.... in several different exposures.... and then merging them into one HDR image.... taking "1" photo and having fun in photoshop, lightroom, does not make this a REAL HDR... i know you did not multiple expose this image because the Rider did not Sit in the Air doing a Superman while you took multiple exposures.... Sorry, but i call it how i see it... it's a nice image WITHOUT the fake hdr!
  • 53
 THIS should have been POD....

www.pinkbike.com/photo/8063284
  • 55
 You can make it your own personal POD, I happen to like this one a little more.
  • 12
 If you all want to get technical about it, its actually a Tone Mapped HDR image. The HDR comes from layering the exposures and the colours/effect come from the Tone Mapping. Whining, and technical jargon aside, for me the effect is overdone. To each his own!
  • 33
 It's a bird! it's a plane! NO, it's SUPER MAN ...returning my lost bicycle.
Batman
  • 10
 pink shoes just make it that much more dope and original
  • 10
 Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Nailin' it
  • 10
 pro mtbers know what's a good backyard
  • 10
 looks like a 29er with that lens! Nice shot
  • 10
 nice SSG!!! Wink
  • 10
 NO WAY!!!
  • 10
 holy exposure!
  • 10
 TriplySmile I like it!
  • 10
 *trippy
  • 44
 nice trick terrible pp
  • 22
 Bitchin' shot..
  • 11
 insperationBig Grin
  • 11
 thats stretch to the max
  • 11
 Sick picture!!
  • 24
 i wish i could stretch like this off the bike!! boom! nice one!
  • 24
 Beautifull
  • 24
 very pretty shot







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