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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

How to Take Great Mountain Bike Photos

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Aaron, Greg, and I share our tips for taking great mountain bike photos.

For additional resources, check out these articles about mountain bike photography.


--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks

Transcript

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0:00.0

Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab.

0:08.3

Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal.

0:16.3

Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last.

0:20.2

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today Aaron, Greg and I are going to

0:27.1

talk about mountain bike photography. We're going to share some of our tips for taking great photos

0:33.1

of mountain bikes. So let's jump right in. Aaron, I wanted to ask you, what's your typical photo

0:39.9

equipment set up when you go for just like a regular everyday ride? Well, there's a saying in photography

0:46.5

that the best camera is the one that you have with you. So just general everyday riding, I've

0:54.1

got my phone with me at all times, pretty much 24 hours a day.

0:58.9

And since I'm already using that to record my ride and Strava and stuff like that, I use that to

1:04.6

take pictures of have an iPhone 6S right now. And it takes really good pictures, honestly, especially if there's good light and kind of

1:13.1

struggles and in some tougher lighting conditions. But it's a phone. So you can only expect too much.

1:18.6

Can't expect too much out of it. But yeah, I mean, if it's a short ride, I just put it in a

1:23.2

waterproof bag and in a jersey pocket. If it's a a longer ride it usually goes in the hydration pack if

1:28.2

I'm carrying one of those but yeah I mean that's pretty much the as basic as it gets what about you

1:33.5

greg again I carry an iPhone as well all the time I have an iPhone SE which actually has the same

1:40.3

camera as the iPhone 6 just in a smaller body But I use a life proof case on my phone.

1:48.7

And this is the third generation iPhone. I've been using lifeproof to protect. And that's been

1:53.3

pretty excellent because I can just stick it in my jersey pocket, pull it out, take some photos, stick it back.

2:15.0

Sweet. Yeah, I'm like you guys too. I'd carry an iPhone with me on all my rides.

2:20.6

And for a while, I was carrying it like in in a pocket a jersey pocket or sometimes I don't know why I would put it in like my shorts pocket I guess because it's easy to

2:25.4

get it out but I had a crash a few weeks back on the road it was on my mountain bike but it was on

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