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Mari Pic of the Week PS Request

ajfclark
9-Jul-2015
10:21:59 AM
The current pic of the week has quite a thread going on about it: http://www.chockstone.org/Gallery/Picture.asp?PictureID=285



I tend to agree that there's too much soft tone in the image. Could someone who's good with photoshop give her a blue helmet and a green shirt or something? What about the whole thing in black & white? Sepia? Any other instagram filters?

[edit: originally I typoed shirt as shit. If anyone wants to PS that, I think they can keep it to themselves]
Dave_S
9-Jul-2015
10:40:00 AM
The blue helmet I could certainly do, but photoshopping her onto an entirely different climb could be challenging.

Miguel75
9-Jul-2015
11:30:30 AM
Instead of photoshopping the pic lets see if we can't get BD to provide Philly a groovier color helmet: Prana (or maybe even Lululemon or Lorna Jane) to provide groovier color clothes and maybe even one of the locals (Wendy) to give the rock a splash of color... And then we'll get Philly to climb it again. In winter. Because she's rad;)

Or, as a Chocky physical challenge, let's see who can climb Mari in the most garish outfit known to man/woman kind. Pics must be posted on this thread for all to enjoy. The winner to be determined by Philly;)

phillipivan
9-Jul-2015
12:14:56 PM
I climbed Mari wearing a hangover once. That was pretty garish.

ajfclark
9-Jul-2015
12:48:14 PM
On 9/07/2015 phillipivan wrote:
>I climbed Mari wearing a hangover once. That was pretty garish.

As in you'd vomited on yourself? Pooped your pants with an AGB?

ambyeok
9-Jul-2015
1:25:53 PM
On 9/07/2015 Miguel75 wrote:
>Or, as a Chocky physical challenge, let's see who can climb Mari in the
>most garish outfit known to man/woman kind. Pics must be posted on this
>thread for all to enjoy. The winner to be determined by Philly;)

Simey has already posted pics of the best climbing outfit which will reign supreme for a thousand years and never be beaten so don't bother cause you will all just be second fiddle to the master.
patto
9-Jul-2015
1:49:42 PM
This is starting to sound like the guy who asked a forum to photoshop his Eiffel Tower tourist photo.....

http://twistedsifter.com/2015/05/can-someone-photoshop-the-eiffel-tower-under-my-finger/
Jayford4321
9-Jul-2015
4:30:10 PM
On 9/07/2015 ambyeok wrote:
>On 9/07/2015 Miguel75 wrote:
>>Or, as a Chocky physical challenge, let's see who can climb Mari in the
>>most garish outfit known to man/woman kind. Pics must be posted on this
>>thread for all to enjoy. The winner to be determined by Philly;)
>
>Simey has already posted pics of the best climbing outfit which will reign
>supreme for a thousand years and never be beaten so don't bother cause
>you will all just be second fiddle to the master.

You talking about that one of him with the how to handle your fear fellah?
If so, where can I buy a pair of binoculars like that to keep an eye on female Mari ascents?
simey
9-Jul-2015
5:50:26 PM
On 9/07/2015 gnaguts wrote:
>If so, where can I buy a pair of binoculars like that to keep an eye on female Mari ascents?

Don't waste your time gnaguts. I've already taken prime spot for viewing female ascents of Mari (sort of like that dude who sits below El Cap with his giant zoom lens trained on climbers).

In fact just a few months ago I did photograph Mari so that we could replace the image that is in our current edition of Arapiles Selected Climbs with a fresh perspective (new edition out in October). Therefore I was interested to read the comments in this thread and in the Gallery section regarding the above pic which is shot from a similar angle to my recent efforts. I'm guessing my pic will cop some of the same criticisms (ie. dark clothing), but I figure that any shortcomings in my photo will be compensated by the lead climber's rack.

I would post the pic here for everyone's enjoyment, but I am afraid Chockstone doesn't allow me enough file size to show the pic in its full glory.


IdratherbeclimbingM9
9-Jul-2015
8:08:58 PM
On 9/07/2015 gnaguts wrote:
>On 9/07/2015 ambyeok wrote:
>>Simey has already posted pics of the best climbing outfit which will reign supreme for a thousand years and never be beaten so don't bother cause you will all just be second fiddle to the master.
>
>You talking about that one of him with the how to handle your fear fellah?
>If so, where can I buy a pair of binoculars like that to keep an eye on female Mari ascents?

This:


bigchris
9-Jul-2015
8:44:07 PM
On 9/07/2015 simey wrote:
>On 9/07/2015 gnaguts wrote:
>>If so, where can I buy a pair of binoculars like that to keep an eye
>on female Mari ascents?
>
>Don't waste your time gnaguts. I've already taken prime spot for viewing
>female ascents of Mari (sort of like that dude who sits below El Cap with
>his giant zoom lens trained on climbers).
>
>In fact just a few months ago I did photograph Mari so that we could replace
>the image that is in our current edition of Arapiles Selected Climbs with
>a fresh perspective (new edition out in October). Therefore I was interested
>to read the comments in this thread and in the Gallery section regarding
>the above pic which is shot from a similar angle to my recent efforts.
>I'm guessing my pic will cop some of the same criticisms (ie. dark clothing),
>but I figure that any shortcomings in my photo will be compensated by the
>lead climber's rack.


If its the photo I think i've seen (of Kat?) then thats where we got the idea of the angle from. However mine was shot with my iPhone with no prior arrangement except, "Hey, I should rap down next to you while you're climbing and take a photo to show your folks".


phillipivan
10-Jul-2015
6:18:10 PM
What's an AGB?

There was no vomit. The garishness was entirely inside my head.
dan_b
10-Jul-2015
6:35:41 PM
On 10/07/2015 phillipivan wrote:
>What's an AGB?
>
>There was no vomit. The garishness was entirely inside my head.
>

The Oxford English Dictionary, mine at least, defines this as an "after grog bog"

Worst after bourbon.
simey
10-Jul-2015
6:38:58 PM
On 9/07/2015 bigchris wrote:
>If its the photo I think i've seen (of Kat?) then thats where we got the
>idea of the angle from.

Yep, Kat is the climber in my pic.

>However mine was shot with my iPhone with no prior
>arrangement except, "Hey, I should rap down next to you while you're climbing
>and take a photo to show your folks".

Nice pic then. Shooting in flat light as opposed to sunlight is what helps more than anything in nailing a worthwhile climbing pic.

phillipivan
10-Jul-2015
6:43:06 PM
It's in the OED? Sounds more like something from the urban dictionary.

dan_b
10-Jul-2015
7:08:20 PM
On 10/07/2015 phillipivan wrote:
>It's in the OED? Sounds more like something from the urban dictionary.
>
>

A lot of overlap these days

IdratherbeclimbingM9
11-Jul-2015
9:09:14 AM
Over on the ajf linked thread Reluctant wrote:
>After reading the comments on this site for a long time I feel vindicated in NOT posting photos of my daughter climbing.

>Can only hear "nice rack", "like to grab that jug", "crack - et al", without wanting to smash in the face of the purile turd delivering the line. I hear in Bigchris the same frustration I often have.

Some things have been that way forever?

As an example, see this T-shirt concept* that didn’t quite make it when Chockstone was getting some made back in the early chocky-daze;





Can you imagine 'daughters' wanting to wear that?
;-)

The other thought that it conjures in my mind, is that it looks like the homicide chalk outline of a climber that has just gone splat after being taken to task for-
Heh, heh, heh.

(*Apologies to the designer, and image-host-ID, for this unforseen usage of their concept here as trawled from chocky-archive).

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