Lewis Morris

Did my first race yesterday, the course was loads of fun.
I think the rain the day before actually made the course a bit better.
As for distance, yeah they were way off got 5.6 miles on my GPS.

Not sure why we had to wait 3 hours for the results, but other then that it was a great race.
 
Hey guys,

Im currently in the middle of editing pictures. The beginner classes are all done, and my computer is batch converting to JPG proofs. Once that's done I will start upload the files into class galleries. (Beginner/Sport/Expert)

You can get to the proofs via http://www.nathancrisman.com. At the bottom of the page click on Client Proof to go to my proofing page. Then click on the Sports section, then Mountain Bike. The interface is fairly simple.

Unfortunatly there are so many # plates that are unreadable and it will take me far longer to reorder/rename the files in race# order, that Im just going to seperate them into classes. On a good note, they are in time order, so you can see who was ahead/behind you!😀

I expect to have sport uploading later this afternoon, and expert uploading overnight. I takes a while when there are 900 to start with, 700+ to finish and upload.

Thanks for looking.

Nathan Crisman

(EDIT) Forgot to mention that I normally do a little more optimizing on each file before it goes to print from an online order, but I don't do more than batch adjust exposure and cropping for proofs of events.
 
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Purple Liquid said:
who was taking pictures with that intensely bright flash today? Everyone was bombing down that back hill on the first lap and BAM, three bright flashes in my face.

Good thing I wore sunglasses
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Sorry about the flash if it was a distraction. Thankfully, not a single person wiped out after my light😉

Here's an example of why I use them in this manner. One pic where the flash went off, and one where the flash didn't recharge fast enough from prev shot and didn't go off.

I use 2 speedlights on a stand off the camera and trigger it wirelessly via radio. 2 flashes at half power recharge faster than one flash at full power. When you guys are hamming past in groups, I have a better chance of getting everyone if the flash recharges twice as fast.

The shot with flash is much sharper on the face, while the background is blurred from panning to give a sense of motion. Without the flash, you can see the face is blurry and the shot isn't so good. The flash is what seperates the subject from the background.

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Fantastic photos Nathan! I checked the beginner photos online and that's the first time I enjoyed going through each photo. Great action shots! Can't wait for the sport photos.
 
gtluke said:
here are my pics:
http://www.gtluke.com/gallery/v/outings/2008lewismorrischallenge/
i was racing so i wasn't shooting for the first half. my girlfriend shot some pics, and later in the day (page 2 and 3) i got some of the expert class with a fisheye at the bottom of the last downhill before you cross the last bridge.
mine are about 1% as cool as nate's, but hey.. 🙂
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Great shots man! I like the fisheye shots a lot! 2393, 2395 -- some good ones in there!
 
NJ-XC-Justin said:
Really not happy about seeing a Marty's rider cut the course. Caught up to who I thought was the guilty party and at first he played innocent newbie but then tried making small talk and went on about being new to sport and totally exhausted and whatever. You could tell he felt awful because he had the reserves to pass me at any time but didn't. Conscious probably weighing him down. It was only a 15-foot cut but still he passed me and another rider so I have to think he knew well what he was doing.
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I think I was behind you when you asked if he was sir-shortcuts-alot, did you say, "yeah well you sure look like the guy" when he denied it? whatever he did, it didn't pay off as we rolled by him on the climb. I wish I had notice him cut the course but I had tunnel vision by then (3rd lap)

PS- I'm #832 in the picture below, wow it looks like I was going fast!

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LM was the first race I ever attended. Good times, great weather and alot of fun.

Justin, you were literally riding circles around me as you were warming up in the grass to the side of the pavilion. I saw the bike, saw the 1x9 then it all clicked. Norm later confirmed it was you. I was the tall guy, black hat with the MTBNJ t shirt on with the belly that shows I haven't been on a bike in 6 months.

Good to see so many faces yesterday and meet some new ones, glad everyone had fun.
 
So was it the same course this year?

Also, would going over the rotting log in the southern end of the yellow trail be considered cutting the course considering there is a flow-killing go around? After a year of riding that trail I just realized how easy it is to go over that log last week.
 
That's a good question. I don't know the answer.

As to that flow kill, it's there so the trail doesn't wash out. Those things sre put in to cut rider speed. That's part of the TM philosophy in certain areas. I don't know what does and doesn't qualify as needed choke points and speed scrubbers. I imagine that log build up will be thwarted before long.

Course was *almost* the same. From the far lot it took yellow all the way back to the start.
 
where exactly is this log? The only one I can remember hoping was the one on the downhill section after the parking lot.
 
clutch its the same exact course as last year then. thats exactly what we did yesterday.
utah he's talking about that log in the middle of the downhill where you go from like 15mph having fun to almost stopped to make a U around a fallen log. its not a log in the path as much as it is a path around a log that fell years ago.
its actually right before the new fallen log you are talking about.
 
gtluke said:
clutch its the same exact course as last year then. thats exactly what we did yesterday.
utah he's talking about that log in the middle of the downhill where you go from like 15mph having fun to almost stopped to make a U around a fallen log. its not a log in the path as much as it is a path around a log that fell years ago.
its actually right before the new fallen log you are talking about.
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Oh ok. I hate that spot, although I did pass two people at once there during the race. I think it catches alot of people in the wrong gear. I never thought about hopping it, Ill have to look at that next time time I go. Let me know how you make out today with that lukus, bc if you do it, ill have to try it. 😀
 
We had three bike computers that all said 18 miles and change. The guys at Marty's told me it was about 6.1 or so per lap, so that would make sense.
 
walter said:
Justin, you were literally riding circles around me as you were warming up in the grass to the side of the pavilion. I saw the bike, saw the 1x9 then it all clicked. Norm later confirmed it was you. I was the tall guy, black hat with the MTBNJ t shirt on with the belly that shows I haven't been on a bike in 6 months.
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Cool man, next time say hi! I was trying to psyched up but it was hard because my little boy came to watch me so I just wanted to play with him.

Yeah I've got to be the only 1x9 H2H racer. Logic says it can't be as fast but it just works for me. 32x34 makes it up most hills and 32x11 doesn't seem to spin out.
 
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