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April 19th, 2012 at 9:06 am
Impressive. Most impressive. Fighter pilots and astronauts have to come from somewhere.
April 19th, 2012 at 9:24 am
Holy Crap My Pants!! What a pair this guy has….
April 19th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Well at least we know that pair is evenly balanced.
April 19th, 2012 at 10:31 am
Holy Crap, indeed!
April 19th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Cool! COLD!! Looks like he’s in some kind of “canyonlands” location like southern Utah?
April 19th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
I’d say he better have a parachute.
April 19th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
I’d say its a great videoshop job, pay close attention to the focus.
April 19th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Bill doesn’t believe people are awesome.
April 19th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
I’m reminded of what my father told me when I was stuck up in a tree: “you got yourself up there, now you can get yourself down.”
April 19th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Oh, I believe they are awesome, but then tell me how he got up there, and how he’ll get down? LOL!!
April 19th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Bill is right great Photoshop if not on a green screen.
Watch the video front tire never kicks dirt/snow. I have spent some time of dirt bikes never in snow but in dirt/mud and to run that fast pulling turns and have no kick from the front tire? I call BS. Every turn it should be roostering out off the front not huge rear end roosters but roosters all the same. Also that is a lot of riding not even one drop of spec of dirt to pop up on the lens.
Damm good photoshop thou.
April 19th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
yeah, and the front tire rarely spins.
April 19th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
After watching it again, I also agree that it’s fake. The whole time the bike is bouncing around all over, but the video isn’t bouncing at all. I know you absorb a lot of that with your body and legs, but not ALL of it. Still leaves the question of what took the mountain video part?? Helicopter??
April 19th, 2012 at 11:02 pm
I seriously doubt it’s a fake.
This was shot with a GoPro or similar type camera with an extreme wide angle 180 degree view lens. That lens explains everything noted here. I just got back from the last day of NAB, and GoPro is there with a booth… so lots of this kind of footage is fresh in my mind right now.
Wideangles have huge depth of field (from on inch or less in front of the camera to infinity), so everything’s in focus. This camera is using a 180 degree fisheye wideangle, as wide as it gets outside of a Google Street View camera. (The video compression on this clip is horrible, so that’s the source of any softness.)
Wideangle distortion exaggerates perspective effects; all motions towards and away from the camera are exaggerated; depth is exaggerated as the expense of width of arc. The biker isn’t going very fast at all, he probably doesn’t get over running speed.
The fisheye distortions mean that even if he had any roosters — unlikely at that slow speed — they’d go straight down and out of view.
For the same reason, I seriously doubt that he’s on a “mountain”; it’s more likely a small ridge *in* the mountains. (Realtors like wideangles because they make tiny rooms look huge — and even they don’t resort to 180 degree fisheye lenses.)
Since he’s shooting in broad daylight with snow, the camera will have a fast shutter speed, 1/1000s or smaller, which freezes everything. That and the slow bike speed explain why the knobs on the tire never blur out and look like they aren’t moving.
Last but not least: those of you with rifle scopes know that visible shaking gets worse with higher power — and therefore narrower viewing angle — scopes. They magnify movement the same way they magnify the target. Wideangle lenses do the opposite; 5 or 10 degrees of panning is no big deal in a 180 degree view like this one.
The one thing nobody mentioned was the lighting, and that’s fine because it is correct. I do “videoshopping” for a living, and lighting is one of the key details I try to get perfect.
This would be rather hard to fake well. I’d tell the producer that shooting it for real would be cheaper.
I will say this, though: horrible compression like we see here is a great way to hide the sort of artifacts that people like me look for.
April 20th, 2012 at 2:04 am
I’d really like to know where that is, I’m guessing Somewhere near Moab, UT.