Pub Talk - Greatest Cycling Photo Ever!
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adr82 wrote:
I think it looks fake because of the sh!tty but apparently now mandatory postprocessing on the photo. Makes the rider look like he's been pasted in from some other photo because the lighting is so badly wrong.Garry H wrote:frenchfighter wrote:Not road bike related but a great shot.
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http://www.pinkbike.com/news/myth-buste ... -2014.html
For real? looks completely fake to me.
Nope, there is very little (if any) post processing on that.
This is a fairly generic set-up. Underexpose the ambient (natural light) part of the shot, so without the flashes the whole thing would look too dark. Then pop in two flashes. One low to the left and slightly behind him. And one on a boom right over the top of the rider and a little bit in front.
It is a variant on the go-to cross lit portrait much beloved of newspaper photographers trying to add some interest to a dull headshot to illustrate a story. Can be useful to make the subject pop from an uninteresting or distracting background. But not really needed for a shot like this.0 -
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Coppi and Robic, AdH 1952 TdF
Wiggins 2005:
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Bottecchia
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A couple of brilliant ones there.0
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2014 TdF
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This photo appears next to the word determination in the dictionary.0
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frenchfighter wrote:
That's a wonderful shot ff. Any info on that one?0 -
frenchfighter wrote:2014 TdF
Brilliant picture.Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy0 -
Says here it's apparently Franco Chioccioli during the 1988 Giro, on the Stelvio.Brassknocker wrote:frenchfighter wrote:
That's a wonderful shot ff. Any info on that one?0 -
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Surprised this isn't in here (at least couldn't see it or anything similar)
Hinault LBL 1980
A few more Classics photos:
Kuiper crashing:
Willems:
Kelly
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Flanders, 1977. De Vlaeminck and Maertens.
I have always liked this one, which I first saw when I was a postal subscriber to the classic Miroir du Cyclisme. (Which interestingly enough was a publication of the French communist party!)"an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.0 -
"an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.0 -
"an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.0 -
"an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.0 -
"an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.0 -
Merckx again, Flanders again.
This one was the centrefold photo for the programme for the Worlds RR championship when it was held in Leicester in 1970."an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.0 -
"an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.0 -
Great shots Bender - thanks!Contador is the Greatest0
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Nice photo of Tom Simpson:
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Poulidor and Bahamontes
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frenchfighter wrote:Great shots Bender - thanks!
Thanks! Your photo of Coppi is tremendous.
For me, once everyone started wearing sunglasses and helmets, photos of pro cycling lost a lot of the human element.
Moser was very photogenic as well:
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BenderRodriguez wrote:For me, once everyone started wearing sunglasses and helmets, photos of pro cycling lost a lot of the human element.
Yeah definitely. Sometimes I cant even recognize some of the lesser riders without their glasses. Very revealing when they race with them off.Contador is the Greatest0
