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Thread: Whistler/Vail North 2020/2021
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04-08-2021, 04:12 AM #1101
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04-08-2021, 10:17 AM #1102
So blessed to also ski Central Couloir
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04-08-2021, 12:00 PM #1103
That last good snow day at Blackcomb was epic:
Later that same day, we did the same run again but back up for a change.
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04-08-2021, 12:26 PM #1104
lol- nice one LL. She be getting steeeep!
What has this thread turned into with the photo police? makes me not want to buy an epic pass next year....lol
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04-08-2021, 09:45 PM #1105
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04-09-2021, 12:36 AM #1106
Agree. The grid keeps things level. I think every professional should use it to keep things level.
If, as Kalisto says, that the photo with the noticeable crop/rotate artifact was corrected for horizon, then I'd expect other photos to also be corrected for horizon. When I saw the picture I originally commented on, I thought "Whoa cool! That looks steep." Then I saw the rotated background artifact at the bottom corner and went "WTF?".
Lee is a professional Instagram influencer with his own blog and much social media presence. I just want to know that when I see his pics, that they are real. Actually, it would be nice to believe that all the stuff posted in ski-zines is real.
Let's see what happens when we adjust another photo for the horizon. After all, that is what was done to the other, right?
Correcting that for the horizon makes it less steep. And the pole-planted is now vertical as is the ski strap dangling off the top skis. So that corroborates the rotation correction.
What about the zoom action shots? Here is one picture. A split second later the same skier in a zoomed version. I assume they were rapid fire shutter press and zoom was applied afterwards. What happens if an object is used from the wide angle and a correction for the same angles is applied to the zoomed in version.
Correcting the zoomed pic to match the unzoomed pic results in it being less steep.
I have no doubts that Lee or his clients can rip steep stuff. That's 49 degrees uncorrected and to rip that with a touring pack is quite amazing indeed. If they are ripping 49 degree slopes like that then I take my hat off to them and many kudos to them for seizing the opportunity.
As a comparison, the average of drop + chute for Corbett's Couloir is 53 degrees. That includes the terrifying vertical cliff drop. So 49 degrees is seriously steep.
Perhaps the steepness of the photo depends on latitude. That would explain why all the Aussie pics here are upside down.
That's all I have to say regarding #rotategate. I'm a little crazy as everyone says. I just wasn't crazy I think to notice and comment on the rotate artifact a few posts up.
Edit: A second look at the skier wide + skier zoom images. I don't think the top anchor image looks realistic either. After all, snow smooshes from skiing don't fall backwards. So, correcting for the snow-smoosh from the skier and the snow falling angle, I think 7 degrees is reasonable. That changes them both by 7 more degrees. Probably could be more than 7 degrees, but I'll give benefit to a little forward gravity since we are in the Northern Hemisphere. The lower of the two images, the zoomed one, is now corrected by a total of 12 degrees. Which make this image of both. Which still looks very good and very acceptably steep. Very good and very acceptably steep still. And I think the cliffs look right now too.
Edit: But wait. There's more!! Here is a fix for "Alpine Skiing at the Durrand Glacier Chalet, BC" on a well known ski-touring huts photos page. Corrected so that the obviously flat cloud bottoms are actually horizontal. Line added to show cloud bottom alignment. Original photo here.
Last edited by puregravity; 04-09-2021 at 02:10 PM. Reason: but wait, there's more!
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04-09-2021, 01:21 AM #1107Registered User
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PG I think you're crazy but that visual analysis was actually very interesting and informative.
Do I care that the photos were rotated? No.
Was I fascinated by the write-up and the fact that browser protractor plug-ins exist? Yes.
Will I ever download or use said plug-in? Nope.
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04-09-2021, 06:03 AM #1108
First shit-gate and now rotate-gate. What a time to be alive.
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04-09-2021, 05:09 PM #1109
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04-09-2021, 05:46 PM #1110
Haaaa that jpg title. It does look mega steeeep
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04-09-2021, 05:56 PM #1111
My wife crossing from Alaska into BC:
PG can you analyze please
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04-09-2021, 07:00 PM #1112Registered User
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Weak sauce. I do overhanging couloirs with waist deep powder.
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04-09-2021, 07:17 PM #1113
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04-09-2021, 08:11 PM #1114
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04-09-2021, 08:47 PM #1115
What’s awesome about tilt gate is that in literally every ski magazine and every ski movie ever this is a common trick of the trade to make things appear steeper as long as obvious give aways like trees or the horizon aren’t in the frame. Every single pro cine/Photog who made a living at one point making ski images does it. Pg has seen it thousands of times without ever realizing it.
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04-10-2021, 08:32 PM #1116
Great day all around.
Good call on the early start.
Let the masses ahead migrate to the known lines. While we skied a lesser trafficked N line
If anyone wants to get out inclinometers for peak 2, and 3 here’s what they looked like that day. Don’t think I bothered taking a photo of peak 1 and the group of 8 not socially distancing, all lined up together and ready to drop in to the tracked NW face around noon.
Look closely and ya can see Lee’s group.
Can’t quite see if he is tilting the camera though-lol
Snapped a pic of the line up to Matier also....
Then we skied
Came back up and looked at the Slalok gang bang...
Slayed more pow and went for a bike ride.
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10 days of biking, 5 pow days on the Duffey 10,000+ m climbed
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04-11-2021, 01:26 AM #1117
Nice work! Those are not rookie numbers.
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04-11-2021, 02:19 AM #1118
Lee is not a rook. Full game stonk.
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04-11-2021, 08:35 PM #1119
Got somewhat early at 8am to grab last parking spots. Not surprising for such a cold, clear pretty day.
Lost the crowds by moving one ridge and one glacier over only seeing one other group. Got this mini-Gipfelglueck couloir to ourself and then mogulled the Berlin Wall (named the Borussia Dortmund Westfalenstadion wall today for special occasion)
Powder and weather of acceptable quality
The alpine
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04-12-2021, 08:19 AM #1120
Heading to the Wall. Then tracking it out
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04-12-2021, 10:15 AM #1121
Dam you Lee. My protractor plugin just crashed!
OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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04-12-2021, 06:07 PM #1122
Went back to the Summits and Icefields on Hesse this time to scope out the N Facing glacier of Rotenburg an def Fulda.
We found the quality of views and snow again to be passable
Warming up now. Time to focus on dumbing down trails
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04-12-2021, 06:16 PM #1123Registered User
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Wow LeeLau, those are some great shots. Must've been a super fun day out there I bet.
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04-12-2021, 08:37 PM #1124
Solo day up Twin One glacier. Dog leg off hanging entrance in to a nice couloir
Through the crux, looking down
Looking back up
Looking back across as I’m about to get bonus pow-it was the line in the shade wrapping around lookers left
Back to the valley for apres mtb
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04-13-2021, 08:28 AM #1125
Few more random from the glaciers of Rotenburg
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