This is a woman named Kay Kucera who is a badass windsurfer, mtn. biker, skiier and damn good rock climber. I think she's at least 45 years old and she's still going strong.
I've climbed and ridden with her quite a bit and this day I was hanging on a rope, alongside the climbs Kay and her husband Paul were trying to do.
This route here has not been climbed bottom to top yet. It's not the hardest climb in the world although it's pretty hard. If it were at Smith Rock, there would be a line to climb it everyday. It'll be a fantastic climb once they do it.
Anyway, Marc posted that things were a bit slow so I drug one out from the archives to post.
Posted by Mark Windom on July 27, 2006 at 10:35 PM
Coolness, the first shot looks like something on the cover of a magazine, nice capture... Kinda always wanted to learn to do that, though never had the time, not to mention not needing another hobby still would like to know the basics, as well as rapelling, etc some day, never know when it may come in handy
Posted by Marc Adamus on July 28, 2006 at 11:32 AM
Great perspective, especially the first image Mark. Very inspiring.
Posted by Doyle Thomas on July 28, 2006 at 10:25 PM
Try this:
Change the mode to L*A*B (you will need to flatten) and open curves. Go to the A channel and move the upper left from (input/output) 127/127 to 100/127 and the lower right from
-128/-128 to -100/-128 such that the the slope still passes thru the center of the graph but is steeper. Don't be scared! Go to the B channel and do the same thing.
Turn preview on and off to see the difference and you will be impressed with how the above
images will be improved (technical). I'm sold on using L*A*B color space for contrast/saturation and most global color correction.
Posted by Randy Hanna on July 30, 2006 at 11:56 AM
Mark: Great first shot. The viewer is clearly drawn into the action thanks to your position.
Randy
Posted by Becky Wolfe on August 4, 2006 at 1:59 PM
Wow Mark
I'm JUST learning to climb so short top rope routes are all I've done. This scares the crap out of me but is slightly inspiring as well. Love the angle on the first shot. Second shot looks impossible to a beginner like me but obviously a route for the MUCH more experienced!
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10 repliesI've climbed and ridden with her quite a bit and this day I was hanging on a rope, alongside the climbs Kay and her husband Paul were trying to do.
This route here has not been climbed bottom to top yet. It's not the hardest climb in the world although it's pretty hard. If it were at Smith Rock, there would be a line to climb it everyday. It'll be a fantastic climb once they do it.
Anyway, Marc posted that things were a bit slow so I drug one out from the archives to post.
Change the mode to L*A*B (you will need to flatten) and open curves. Go to the A channel and move the upper left from (input/output) 127/127 to 100/127 and the lower right from
-128/-128 to -100/-128 such that the the slope still passes thru the center of the graph but is steeper. Don't be scared! Go to the B channel and do the same thing.
Turn preview on and off to see the difference and you will be impressed with how the above
images will be improved (technical). I'm sold on using L*A*B color space for contrast/saturation and most global color correction.
Randy
I'm JUST learning to climb so short top rope routes are all I've done. This scares the crap out of me but is slightly inspiring as well. Love the angle on the first shot. Second shot looks impossible to a beginner like me but obviously a route for the MUCH more experienced!
Cool shots! Thanks for sharing!