Something like 90% of the time I ride alone, and ride in some pretty scenic areas. A lot of times I'll see a great view and think "all that needs is for a rider to be in the picture". So, quite often, and with varied levels of success, this will involve rigging up the self timer and trying to catch an "action" shot, (opposed to standing and posing shot). Anybody else do this? Post them up! Any hints or ideas too.
So things got a little crazy for a while and now we're into the short days and long nights, I've been trying to do self timer *night* shots with mixed success (lots of failures for a few keepers) Here's a few:
I used to do a lot of them, but haven't take the time to do them in a while. Here's a few - some taken with my phone and all taken with a 10 second timer, one shot (challenging!).
Oh, I have lots of these! I have a Canon, which as mentioned makes it easy to set the delay, and take up to 10 sequential shots. That greatly improves the chances of getting a shot with myself where I want to be in the frame.
Wow, pretty cool shots. Lots of work, especially where the camera appears to be set far away. I certainly don't have the patience to try this, nor am I inclined to take our expensive camera out on the trail with me (my wife would kill me if I hurt it!). Maybe the cell phone camera would work?
The best tool for this is a camera with a true time-lapse feature. That way you can have a short time between shots and it can shoot until the card is full, battery dies, or you stop it. Do your run/trick/whatever a bunch of times in a row, and you'll more than likely capture the shot you want.
Has anyone used their cell phone to capture 720p or 1080p video of an action and then just extract the frames they wanted? Or, does that end up looking like crud?
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