12:42 PM Crankworx Giant Giant Slalom Commercials

With Giant being the Title Sponsor of the Giant Giant Slalom at Crankworx I had the opportunity to create a couple commercials to be shown during the event. I've been fiddling with video and editing since the beginning of this year and this was the biggest audience of anything I've done with it so far.

The first video is b-roll footage provided by Anthill Films (Thanks guys!) I re-arranged it and made some gratuitous color adjustments, Jeremy Combs provided the music:

Giant It Takes Faith from JPOV on Vimeo.

The second video begins with b-roll of Kurt Sorge from the Anthill Films crew and then moves into a series of images I have taken over the past 6-8 months. Music is by Jeremy Combs again. Edit's done by me:

Giant Maestro from JPOV on Vimeo.

8:37 AM Tour Of California (Support is in the Details)

10:12 AM Thursday Ride Time Lapse

Been thinking about doing one for awhile just didn't have the "light bulb" go off on the right subject for my fancy. Giant celebrated Ride Like King this past week and given the amount of people that would do the Thursday night ride and the amount of stills I've shot over the years during this ride it seemed the perfect venue to go for it.

The total time from the first shot to the last is 1 hour 30 minutes. Total photos at 640. 630 were shot remotely from a tripod using a pre-trigger cord and 2 Pocket Wizards. Those are the shots around the picnic table. I did it this way as riders arriving to the top of the climb were of varying fitness levels and I wanted to keep the time lapse moving with action. Some of those shots were taken every 1-2 seconds others had a gap of as much as 10 minutes. The remaining ten shots were handheld.

Ride Like King 2010 from JPOV on Vimeo.

10:59 AM Point Of View

Even though my website and company name is "jakespointofview" it's not often that I actually shoot a P.O.V. shot. The name jakespointofview was actually coined by my wonderful wife Tricia when I was struggling for a website name. I wanted something more than just my name and something unique, related to photography but expandable. It has stuck since then.

Back to the post at hand after that little fun fact. This was shot last November on one of the local trails for the Giant P&A catalog. The camera is mounted via 2 superclamps, 1 bicycle seatpost and a ball head. I used one flash, camera right, shot the whole thing remotely as the model rode by.

How many giant Logo's can you find in this one?

2:55 PM Hot Dog- Day as Night.

Went and fiddled with one of the current trends in the photo world today to see what would happen.

I'm always balancing ambient light with flash, and have done some "kill the ambient" in the evening just for kicks cause it feels right. I seem to always be taking high noon light down a few notches, but hadn't taken high noon light down to night. today was a great day to "giv'er" since it was super bright out and Hot Dog was ready for action.

After a few level adjustments here is the result. Day as night.

7:40 PM Newest Giant Ad

Been holding onto this one since January. It's out in Decline Magazine now and should be hitting some other mags as well. It's been posted all over already and is on the Giant Facebook fan page. Be sure to go to http://www.giant-bicycles.com/maestro1/ to see a flash dealio that has other photos from that day and after the ride.