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  1. 6th December 2006, 12:42 PM #1
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    Action Photos

    I've often heard the cry "It was much worse than it looks in the photo!" and have experienced the problem myself taking a pic of someone driving their Landy up a challenging hill, only to have the photo look like they are driving down a flat country lane. It all seems to be in the angles.
    The American author of the "4Wheelers Bible" (?) that I borrowed recently made extensive use of re-cropping photos - so much so that some of his pics appear to show Hummers driving up vertical cliff faces for example - but the technique is good. Here is one of my pics re-cropped:


    I'm very pleased with the look, it really captures what the hill was like (to me anyway) and nothing has been faked. All that has been done is rotate the pic 10degrees and re-crop it.

    Does anyone else have some favourite shot that captures the moment that they'd like to share?
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  2. 6th December 2006, 12:48 PM #2
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    Trees in the background can give it away though!

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  3. 6th December 2006, 01:00 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tusker
    Trees in the background can give it away though!

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    I thought they looked fairly vertical in my pic, does it stand out to you?
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    The one you've done is really good. But sometimes the background can look like Batman & Robin climbing a blding in the 60s, if you can remember that show!

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    We have the same problem taking action shots when skiing. The main thing I have found is you need to be shooting as much across the slope as possible so the gradient is noticeable. Sky and trees help accentuate this. Shooting straight on just doesn't capture the severity of a hill.

    When standing side-on to a slope, you also need to over-correct and angle the camera slightly uphill (much the same as what you are trying to do by re-cropping). Trees are the giveaway, but since the perspective makes them naturally appear to slope slightly up the hill anyway, you can over-correct and have them vertical and the slope will appear steeper.
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  6. 6th December 2006, 03:52 PM #6
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    here is mine, it was only sheer momentum that got me thru I swear.

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    The other thing it seems to need is a demonstration of the change in angle.

    Check the difference from this (Unimog Hill, Lithgow)



    To this:



    And then this:



    This was steep, but nowhere near as steep as it looks (Mt Airlie):



    And this one was a slight climb (Mt Airlie):

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    Quote Originally Posted by crump
    here is mine, it was only sheer momentum that got me thru I swear.

    http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/Weem6/FenderPics021.jpg't=11653842833

    Mate it was either you or me that was going to do an inverted shot, glad it was you, now I can say it




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  10. 6th December 2006, 08:01 PM #10
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    Redback - Excellent pics!
    Slunnie - awesome difference between pics 1 and 2! (How come all my pics are like pic 1?)

    Crump - yeah, thanks.<_< If NM hadn't made the joke about bluetack I'd be calling you names now.
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