First try. I kid you not. I then proceeded to waste about 20 minutes trying to get a side view to work. I mostly ended up with this:
Or this:
And then I spent many, many hours cleaning the whole apartment. I feel so calm and relaxed when I walk into a clean room. Its such a fantastic feeling, I think I'll try this clean house things more often...
My advice to budding amateur self-portrait-ists: go with the straight on view, its a lot easier to get a good shot.
7 comments:
where do you go to get a good long bounding workout?
Prospect hill is generally long enough for me. Prospect is here. At a slower moosehoof-ish pace, it'll take 4:15-4:30, an all-out bound gets me closer to 4:00. I have yet to break 4, but, you can sort of keep going on the flatter section for 20-30 feet and then you get to a road that keeps going up if you wanted a longer workout. I don't know that I'd want to hillbound for longer than a 4-5 minute interval... its hard work man!
For the sideshot pic:
Try taking a movie then pause and screen cap the shot you like. Res won't be as good tho...
Thats a good idea. I think if I just moved the camera back (like into the woods), the lens angle would be wide enough to catch the skier in a variety of positions, giving a higher chance of a decent picture. I'll try that next.
That looks like fun - both the bounding and the photo-ing. I'm still looking for a good video showing how to bound, do moosehoofs, etc. Any hints? Any possibility of posting something here (or on YouTube?) There are lots of photos of bounding and even more textual descriptions in the usual internet spots, but whenever I try to put them into practice, the result feels off. Hard, but wrong-hard, not right-hard.(Perhaps its my lack of classic-style skiing ability that's handicapping me.)
Hey Chris,
Without having a video of myself or someone else bounding (these things have GOT to exist, I just wasn't able to find them on a quick search of youtube), the best way to start is by just running with poles. Don't do anything with the poles, just let them bounce on the trail as naturally as you can as you run along.
Once you get comfortable running with poles, experiment with running faster with poles when you get to a hill. You'll find that you're starting to use the poles to give you some lift. If you add some power from your legs to your 'pole lift', you'll find you're sort of bounding along. Think like a gazelle. If it starts to feel weird, just go back to running with poles. You'll get similar physiological benefits from running with poles as you would with bounding, although bounding is harder physically.
A moosehoof is basically an easier-intensity bound, so that you're being less explosive, making the motion much more sustainable. Once you feel like you have the motion down, its important to try to actually bound, rather than just run with the poles (I know, I'm contradicting myself. Just take things one step at a time is what I'm trying to say). Good luck! I'll try and shoot video next time I go hillbounding.
Thanks for the advice the other day. I spent a lot of time running with poles, and I see that I'm inadvertently bounding as I go up the hills. I'll put a little more thought into it next time I'm out. Trouble here in Northfield is that the longest hill I can easily use (i.e., within the distance of a long run) is about 3 minutes long, jogging. High reps!
Post a Comment