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Sturt shooting Rowley is a match made in heaven/hell
I remember a sturt (color photo ) sequence of Rowley in Thrasher, think part was the cover, but the caption said something like "Geoff Rowley back 3 into the Matter Horn, take this out of the mag and staple it to your fucking eye balls" Something like that, wish I had that one
I remember that caption well. It was for this photo.
Probably my favourite cover ever, thanks for sharing.
This one's actually a little false as the camera angle makes the bank look steeper than it actually is! Cleverly done but if you look at the bushes they seem a little off.
Not really the angle, the lens. All that Rowley stuff that looked warped like that was shot on a tilt shift lens.
regardless of lens type, it's obvious he tilted the camera 45 degrees toward making the bank look impossibly steep. an old photographey trick pushed further.
well, no not really. tilt shift lenses, when fully tilted either up or down, stretch the last 1/3 - 1/4 of the frame in a weird way. so probably a slight angle to accentuate the bank, and then the shift makes it more dramatic. source - i shoot with tilt shift lenses for a living.
I think the poster above you means tilt as in rotated the camera not tilt as in tilt shift lens. I could be wrong though.
I've never used a tilt shift lens. They're mainly used for keeping lines straight in architecture photohtaphy right?
I remember when this cover came out, people pointed out the angle the plants were at. If you hold the cover so they're growing straight up that's probably a more realistic 0 degree point.
This is part of the image tilted 30 degrees clockwise. Indeed the bank looks less gnarly and the bushes more natural. Either way, great pic.
Did anyone mention how Sturt "poached" footage of DWay setting a new world record for a highest air on a vert ramp in like 98 (Sturt set up a camera with like a 1600 mm long lens and got the pictures in Thrasher before TWS who paid for the ramp, location (a former airport iirc) A real legend.
Edit: just compared the footage of the 360 ollie in Extremely Sorry and Sturt (apart from tilting the camera) must have had his camera very low (probably lying on the ground or they must have photoshopped Rowley a bit higher in the air) since it looks way lower in the video.
Good example of how a camera (angle, lens or both) can make a trick look huge (or sometimes vice versa) like JJ doing a switch tre over what appeared to be almost a river in South Korea but when the footage came out it was a small ditch in a park.