{"id":10172,"date":"2021-02-25T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T18:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2021-02-28T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T17:46:17","slug":"motorcycle-pix-with-gopro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/motorcycle-pix-with-gopro\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Pix With GoPro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I kind of like this posterized sort of shot; it’s a little arty.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

I use a photograph with every one of these posts, and I almost never use the same photo twice. That means that every time I go out I’m shooting more–I burn through a lot of them.<\/p>\n

A lot of the time, in order to get shots of bikes on the road, I carry my camera strapped around my neck and when the situation permits I’ll pull it up and fire off a few shots as I ride. Thank you auto-focus and auto-exposure for making this possible. But this practice is not without risks. Some people–maybe you!–would say it’s stupid and dangerous.<\/p>\n

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A view off to the side while riding off the top of the dam.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Besides the risk, however high or low it is, there are limitations because often just when I’d like to take a shot or two I really need both my hands on the grips and my eyes on the road. I miss an awful lot of good pictures for that reason.<\/p>\n

Enter the GoPro camera. This thing is designed to be mounted and either turned on to shoot photos or video or else to be triggered manually with a remote device. Judy gave me this camera for Christmas several years ago and other than taking a ride over Guanella Pass with it recording, and up and down the Lookout Mountain road, I really haven’t used it.<\/p>\n

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A bit of fish-eye lens effect.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Quite some time ago I decided it was time to use it. I keep a to-do list and it has been on the list for months. This week I finally checked it off the list.<\/p>\n

The GoPro is a pretty cool little device but I had found that shooting video of riding a motorcycle is just not that exciting. Maybe if I was racing at 150 mph around a track with other bikes alongside and in front, but I don’t do those things. So I concluded my best use for it would be to shoot individual photos using the remote. Stick it in the mount on top of my helmet, look at what I want to shoot, and press the button.<\/p>\n

The thing with the camera is that it shoots in super wide view and has incredible resolution. It’s almost a fish-eye lens, so the horizon arcs and things get distorted the further you get from the middle of the image. So if all I want is shots of some guys on bikes ahead of me on the road, they come in sharp and I just crop out 90 percent of the image. Plus, even at full magnification the resolution is not at all bad, although it gives sort of an artsy, posterized image.<\/p>\n

And then here’s the kicker. All of these shots above were taken from one photo, the one below. I was looking a bit off to the right but the ultra wide lens got half of the world around me. I think I’ll be using this camera more in the future.<\/p>\n

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The one picture that all the above pieces came out of.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

You know you’re a biker if your best friends are named after reptiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I use a photograph with every one of these posts, and I almost never use the same photo twice. That means that every time I go out I’m shooting more–I burn through a lot of them. A lot of the time, in order to get shots of bikes on the road, I carry my camera […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[745,1123],"class_list":["post-10172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","tag-gopro-camera","tag-shooting-motorcycle-photos-while-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10185,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions\/10185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}