Balls....he has them
 

check the pics in this thread


http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=536451


And before you say it's a goproHD on 2 second intervals....

http://frank766.zenfolio.com/img/v2/p845237883-5.jpg



Canon D5 DSLR....+/- $3000 worth of camera there.....OH, and BALLS to operate it while damn near knee draggin. Check em all out....some are friggin SICK and wallpaper worthy

Thats awesome and all...But It would totally take the fun out of riding for me...I've tried to do that with my camera...It aint easy

No crap!

I've done SOME photography on the road (see this topic)....but NOTHING like that...and it was in the straights

Some amazing shots in there! Nice find... going back in there to waste some more time. :)

Lame...

My Camera is fucking lame.



Those are great shots (except for one...one of those sucked but I will let it slide since the rest of the shots were great)

I took thousands of photos from the seat of my motorcycle at speed, many with a Fuji S5000 and the rest with a Nikon D70s. It becomes somewhat automated after a while, and you can get some unreal shots.

Edited to add: I never took any leaned over like that. Amazing.

wow, awesome.

Yup probably one of the coolest series of photos i've seen in a while

I need a better camera

I have been doing this some with my point and shoot, photos never turn out well for me. Seems like he rests the camera some of the tall tankbag he has and that would probably help some a lot, it's like anything, just practice and it become second nature.

For the rear shots, I wonder if he is using a mount.

Here is how he does the front shots, rests the camera on the tankbag.

It's like dragging your hand with your knee on the ground, once you get use to using your legs, it's not much work for your arms and you don't have to use both.

Been watching this thread over there. Has some really nice photos.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=540395

I had good results velcroing the camera to the top of the tank bag and wearing the strap around my neck.

Brave guy there and some really awesome shots.

wow... that is all i have to say

Someone needs to show these dudes how to hang off a bike. You wouldn't need that much lean angle if you shift ur ass off the seat.

Nice pics anyways.

How DARE they show themselves short of having perfect form :lol

Awesome pics. Sucks he's gotta reach across the top of the cam to take the pic...probly took some getting used to.

those are DAMN impressive!

I wanna try taking some photos like those this year... gonna have to figure out some fail safe if my grip fails.

also wanna try finding a way of making a tank bag out of my pelican case...

When I went to my VTX rally in Denver, CO I started taking pics on the fly like that. My camera was a smaller Sony Cybershot but I hung it from the strap over my neck like normal. I would just work it all left handed and hold it up to take shots. Granted only about 30% of them came out decent and you have to be real careful not to put too much attention on the camera :lol: but it works... here's a couple I took (wish my camera was as good as his)...

I thought this one was cool...
http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs208...._5005737_n.jpg

over the shoulder...
http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs208...._4066218_n.jpg

http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs208....4_694313_n.jpg

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._7199511_n.jpg


My problem was having the windshield on the bike then, I had to raise the camera way up to clear it but it let me get some good scenery shots as I was riding that I wouldn't have other wise. I was riding 3-400+ miles/day all 4 days I was out there so not a lot of stops for picture taking ;)

I think the biggest issue for me is gonna be my camera's weight. I dunno if I can take photos holding the camera the way he does, unless it's strapped to my hand.

I can hold it the way he does, but the camera is a bit heavy to hold out over the road just trusting my grip.

I can hold it kinda cradled in my hand better... but again dunno if I'd feel safe holding my $1500 camera out there....

but I'm gonna work on it... try and get some good photos on my road trips. seeing as I don't like stopping very often or much.

be cool to get some shots of the rally this way... but being on the DRZ, might be tough to keep up.



really gotta figure out something for storage

those are pretty good shots eric

THanks Ebbs! I didn't mind hanging out a little with my little $400 Sony ;) But I didn't think to try those low angle shots either. With a camera like yours I'd definitely want it tied to me somehow! And you have to consider what you'll do in an emergency situation wher you have to grab the bar. With my neck strap I could just drop the camera and it wasn't hitting anything but me.

When I went skydiving, the photographer had 2 cameras attached to a helmet. One camera was a digi cam for still shots, and the other was a digi camcorder to video the whole jump. He had an eye piece that would with crosshairs so he knew what he was shooting, but to take a pic, he had an attachment going from the camera to his mouth and to take a pic he would just bite this piece and the camera would take a pic.

Something like that would be good for shots, not even having to take your hands off for a shot. Just get the camera set to how you wish, and shoot with that attachment.

well the nice thing about the DRZ... is that I can't go that fast to begin with... and heading off road itsn't as "puckering" as it is on a street bike.

but I have a "skin" for the D300... that will help protect the body from short drops or bumps... but the lens will still be at risk.

I'll figure something out... loop my hand through the strap a few times... plus with the wide bars not much it can bump into...

(and my bike insurance will cover it :lol:)

nikon has an corded remote timer that I can program to take photos at any interval, bursts, delay or what ever. it's got like a 3' cord... so I could set it to take pics, then just hold the camera securely, and not worry about pressing the shutter release.

also I have 12g's worth of space... so I can just delete the unwanted photos when I stop... and I have a spare battery (but they're usually good for all day shooting on a single charge)

Eric...good pics man.


Ebbs...I would think strapping the cam to your hand would be sorta dangerous if you suddenly need to have control of the bike.

I think that I would still get a camera mount and just leave it slightly loose so you can move it around.

Ram mounts sells a unit that mounts on the bars or on the tank. You can get to of the longer arms and a double ball connector to make it about an 18'' reach and quadruple articulating.

What's go about this is that you can adjust it on the fly pretty easily and you can let go of your camera without fear. Obviously, this is just an example. Ram sells different length arms and different mounts, etc.

If you invest in the remote cable as well, you could get some really good shots without compromising your or your friend's safety.

Thats probably the safest route, but it's not gonna afford you the latitude to get such awesome shots as the guy did.

I tried the camera mount way on a ball-head mount at first. The camera was a Fuji point and shoot so no weight at all. If you didn't tighten it down and make it immobile it would flop around. It also transfers all the vibrations from the bike into the camera and would destroy a DSLR in no time. The camera mount turned out to be waaaaay too much trouble.

Like I said, the best way for me was putting velcro on the top of my tankbag and on the bottom of my camera and throwing the strap around my neck.

Hmmm...I don't know. I got decent video from my GoPro and it was mounted right on the bike. besides, they've been selling camera/camcorder mounts for years... I've never heard of anyone saying that it destroyed their camera. I don't know to be honest. Oh and I would still have the camera tied down some how!

Vibrations, bugs, rocks, etc. Whereas on top of the tank bag behind the windscreen it is protected. If you're just using a P&S camera then no biggie I suppose, but I wouldn't put a DSLR up on a mount...they tend to have sensitive internals, more so than a video camera.

Oh, and mount my ball on your chin sucka.

:lol

Whatever chump! What you gonna do, borrow your balls from your wife?

"Honey, can I borrow my balls for a minute? I want to mount them on Tigger's chin."

"Yea, I don't know about that dear...last time I let you have your balls, you went out and bought some crappy bicycle and started feeding the dogs raw meat." Maybe next time."

*Sigh* "Yes, mam...." other guys get to have their balls whenever they want, shucks...

"You BETTER not be mumbling in there!!!!

"No mam"*pouting*

:lol:

I didn't mean strapped to my hand... just wrap a strap around my arm. loose enough that I could still let go of the camera and have it free up my hand. but not fall enough to hurt it.

Awesome fucking pics.