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WHy is ability in one inextricably linked with the other?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
T Bar, well I'm damned, THAT's why I'm such a crap skier. Doh.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Interesting.

I don't think there's any sort of inextricable link.

However, if you're a good skier, you're likely to want better and better pics in order to post them on internet forums and boast wink

Also, at some point, only photogs who can ski (backwards maybe) in the gnarly terrain will get the best pics.

And from a psychological point of view, if you're keen to improve ("perfectionist" may be too much), you'll often be keen to improve across the board in anything you try your hand at.
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T Bar, I don't think a talent in one is linked to a talent in the other. But it stands to reason that if you are confident in your skiing ability then you will be willing to ski with expensive (and heavy!) lenses.
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
I'm not a great photographer but I'm happy to ski with quite heavy camera bags so even I can get great pics, I guess being a reasonably confidant skier who rarely falls makes a difference when lugging camera kit arround
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I like having photos but I'm by no means a 'photographer'. The best days I've had remain the ones which I don't have photos of.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
scotia wrote:
The best days I've had remain the ones which I don't have photos of.


QFT ^.

I just like showing off how amazing I look when I ski, the beautiful and / or gnarly terrain I ski and how hot my wife is.
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
I dont think pornography is linked with skiing tbh. I haven seen many scenes being shot as I have skied past Laughing
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As you become a better skier you're more likely to know nutcases who'll jump off stuff with a bit of kodak courage, and equally own more brightly coloured kecks which show up better on photos.

I've done my own empirical test by recently buying some yellow pants and my skiing improved by at least 10%*. Ski instructors are a sham conspiracy hiding the real secrets of ski improvement. wink







* at least my shame at tomahawking/double ejections/falling off a traverse increased by 10%
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fatbob wrote:
As you become a better skier you're more likely to know nutcases [who] own more brightly coloured kecks which show up better on photos.

Never a truer word said! In a landscape of light bouncing everywhere in blue hues, bright colours are a must.
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You guys must be right, or is it just a strange coincidence that one of my friends who takes the lousiest photos fell and injured her knee last year, and plans to give up skiing?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
I'm quite a keen photographer and quite a crap skier. I spend a lot of time locally and on my summer holidays on photography and use a DSLR with reasonable but not great results. However when skiing I just stick a small compact in my pocket. I have just bought an orange jacket though so perhaps things will change.
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Colin B, jackets have no effect - it's all about the trousers Cool

to be a good skiing photog, i am sure it helps to be a decent skier. first because you need to have some ability to get into the positions to take the shots (except stuff in the park i guess) and second it probably helps to have an idea of what goes and what looks good which will come partly from your own experience
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Ah but the trousers make you a better skier, not a better photographer. To be a better photographer you need to have the biggest, burliest and mostly inappropriate telephoto lens attached to your camera. Or a camera with a gazillion megapixels crammed onto the tiniest sensor.
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Definitely the trousers

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Smokin Joe wrote:
I dont think pornography is linked with skiing tbh. I haven seen many scenes being shot as I have skied past Laughing


They shot a porn film on the summit of Mont Blanc
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Alan McGregor wrote:
Smokin Joe wrote:
I dont think pornography is linked with skiing tbh. I haven seen many scenes being shot as I have skied past Laughing


They shot a porn film on the summit of Mont Blanc


If trying to bittorrent 'chalet girl' be careful which version you go for Embarassed
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
geoffers, in your case, it may be the matching trousers, beanie and ski bases!
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geoffers wrote:
Definitely the trousers




Absolutely!!!

(same kit here... Black top, Orange trousers, black/white/orange brain bucket, and black rucksack)
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
I find it highly amusing that the snowHeads men seem to be more colour co-ordinated than the women*
I, on the other hand, look like a bag of licorice allsorts (sans any black) and would never be accused of having slope style.

*assumption based not on fact but on extremely loose and occasional observation of sHs' pics and comments
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Zero-G wrote:
I find it highly amusing that the snowHeads men seem to be more colour co-ordinated than the women*
I, on the other hand, look like a bag of licorice allsorts (sans any black) and would never be accused of having slope style.

*assumption based not on fact but on extremely loose and occasional observation of sHs' pics and comments


I always smile about that guy that posted the White Men Can't Ski thread, what a fag, ended up doing his ACL too. Karma's a bitch.
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