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Sergio Colombo
climber
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Jan 27, 2013 - 10:25pm PT
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FACT !! : NEEL ARMSTRONG ALREADY CONFESSED TO THIS SCAM BRAH.
YOU CAN TELL CAUSE THE AMERICAN FLAG AINT MOVIN'
AREA 51 BRAH , ONE SMALL STEP FOR DEAN , ONE GIANT STEP FOR EVRYONE ELSE !!
Regardless of how this video was made, I don't think anyone can or should question the integrity and the climbing ability of Dean Potter. Any video of him climbing deserves to be on National Geographic.
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Jan 27, 2013 - 11:07pm PT
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The moon was not shot separately and put in, the video was made in one take. The poster up thread saw Dean practicing the line and Mike S framing the image the day before the actual shoot.
Edit, Ian your spelling is the reason they've kept you in the 6th grade three years in a row. Aren't you the least bit embarrassed to be 15 and still in elementary school?
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Jan 27, 2013 - 11:13pm PT
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So where was the photographer located when he shot the July 12, 2011 video? I'm not trying to question the making of this video, I just want to take a full moon photo from the same location next summer.
I thought it might have been shot from the summit of Medlicott just looking at the directional relationships and that the photographer said he was ~ 1 mile away.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2013 - 11:41pm PT
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I thought it might have been shot from the summit of Medlicott just looking at the directional relationships and that the photographer said he was ~ 1 mile away.
Your probably right, Medicott.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jan 28, 2013 - 01:44am PT
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Cool as it is, I'm a little disappointed. Thought he was gonna do the Michael Jackson thing on a slack line.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2013 - 10:01am PT
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Lol!!! Nice shot bullwinkle ;)
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Jan 28, 2013 - 03:42pm PT
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So here's a photo taken from the west looking east that shows the 2 pinnacles. It looks like it was taken by Lower Cathedral Lake and south of Medlicott. The "Moonwalk" photographer was probably on a ridge near near this location. Doing this in 1 take is an incredible accomplishment of coordination in space and time.
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BuddhaStalin
climber
Truckee, CA
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Jan 28, 2013 - 04:04pm PT
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Here in CA any schmuck can get his dog registered as a service animal. Pretty lame actually, its like getting disabled placards just so you can park in front. Had to let one in with a patient into our hospital....was bullsh#t. He wasnt disabled or anything, he was just a hippie who knew how to screw around within the system.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Jan 28, 2013 - 04:15pm PT
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I remember seeing the film (Facelift, I think) and Mike S. was there and answered some questions about how he got the shot. As I recall, you need the right lens and it's really long (and expensive) in order for the moon to appear so large. We probably need someone like Ed Hartouni to explain the exact ins and outs of why this happens.
Actually, he does explain (along with others) in the Half Dome visible from Turlock thread:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1061402/Half-Dome-picture-from-some-where-around-Turlock
No doubt about it, that guy is a scientist... and a passionate one at that!
And yes, a stunning short film!
Eric
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jan 28, 2013 - 04:30pm PT
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Amazing production with very cool music.
Thanks!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 31, 2013 - 03:07pm PT
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I talked a bit to Mike at the Facelift, great shot and great visualization for that shot.
While I have a lot less riding on my shots, I think the anxiety of getting it "right" is high all around, and once it starts to happen, you are there for the ride whether or not you got it right.
It is sublime when it is right! and the images in that short are stunning.
Basically, the Moon is effectively at an infinite distance, and has a 0.5º angular diameter...
to get a shot, you have to move the camera back so your subject, Dean's slackline in this case, has a similar angular extent. Easier to calculate this in radians rather than degrees, the Moon is 0.009 radians in diameter... if the slackline were 50' long, it would have that same angular extent as the moon if:
50'/d = 0.009
solve for d:
d=50'/0.009 = 5730' about 1.1 miles
you then setup the azimuth of the Moon at that time to give you the position, from the slackline, you have to be to get the shot... you can get the azimuth from a number of ephemera
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Jan 31, 2013 - 03:22pm PT
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Ed to the rescue! Thanks Ed.
Eric
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jan 31, 2013 - 03:24pm PT
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Beautiful.
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