Buggy jumping

StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
edited August 25, 2004 in Holy Macro
Awesome to watch these guys playing with their kites

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  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2004
    that looks great fun
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2004
    Stan, I don't remember Cambridge having a beach! Where did you shoot this? Nice action shot.
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  • cletuscletus Registered Users Posts: 1,930 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2004
    Woohoo! Power kiting pictures on dgrin thumb.gif

    Great shot!
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited July 26, 2004
    Wow! they're hooking up kites to anything now! I was mesmerized by a kite surfer a few weeks back in virginia beach. Cool to watch them jump and then just hang that extra couple seconds.
    Erik
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  • StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    Stan, I don't remember Cambridge having a beach! Where did you shoot this? Nice action shot.

    It's amazing what I can get with my 100-400 lens rolleyes1.gif

    It was shot at Brancaster beach on the North Norfolk coast, about the only place left to play in England, :cry The local authorities are banning it 'cos its dangerous.
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  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2004
    DoctorIt wrote:
    Wow! they're hooking up kites to anything now! I was mesmerized by a kite surfer a few weeks back in virginia beach. Cool to watch them jump and then just hang that extra couple seconds.
    Erik? when are you going to change your avator...rolleyes1.gif
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited July 26, 2004
    lynnma wrote:
    Erik? when are you going to change your avator...rolleyes1.gif
    good one. rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
    Erik
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  • StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2004
    I got a call from this guys partner asking if I had any burst shots of Mark (AKA Kenny as is in South Park). She wanted to give him a photo for his birthday. I managed to get the picture up to 36" long but there is too much movement so he is not sharp enough :cry. But at 24" it is sharp enough. The largest size on Smug mog is 2000 PX

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2004
    Woo! Stan, that's a terrific shot. Looks like a ballet in the air.... men on puppet strings! That's excellent stuff.

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    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
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  • SeeMoonSeeMoon Banned Posts: 355 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2004
    lynnma wrote:
    Erik? when are you going to change your avator...rolleyes1.gif

    Maybe you can make it a moving one, like yours and Gubbs? rolleyes1.gif
  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2004
    That looks like even more fun...excellent shot thumb.gif
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2004
    Ya know, it wasn't until after i posted last night that I realized this was a composite... it's the same guy. 11doh.gif Doesn't matter though, it's a really compelling image. Nice work, I really like the pattern.
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    Ya know, it wasn't until after i posted last night that I realized this was a composite... it's the same guy. 11doh.gif Doesn't matter though, it's a really compelling image. Nice work, I really like the pattern.

    Thanks Wxwax should have leveled the horizon though. I didn't notice it until I sent the picture headscratch.gif
    I think I need a check list of steps to tick off in PS postwork cos I always see some glaring omission when it is too late
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  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited August 25, 2004
    I've never seen them buggy jumping with the kites, but I have seen lots of surfers using them:

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    Too much glare and I had to crop out several kites to reduce the width of the shot (which would've made the kites even smaller). I had I think a baker's dozen in the original shot.

    I also got this one by itself that afternoon (yeah, needs some work but I still like it):

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