Taking some pics of my form

Tristan

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I've been meaning to shoot some video of my form for years so I was trying to do that today. Still have some editing to do but maybe I'll have something prepared in the next few days. I also took some stills, and have compiled a few images. Paragenek I think it was you I got the idea from, but anyhow I set the camera to rapid fire on a 1 minute delay (I had timed how long it takes me to get to a certain spot with enough time to steady my pace and cadence). I took this set I believe at my long run pace in the mid 8-minute pace range, and I was running at a 180 cadence. I did a 2.5mi warmup prior to get things warmed up, but these short runs in front of the camera might have been effecting my form a bit. Keep in mind these are not synched with my pace so they are at random spots in my stride.

This is mainly for fun, though I'm always open to suggestions. I know my form is probably not perfect but at this point not sure if I can really change it.

My rapid fire was kind of quick so the images overlapped. Reminds me of all the Agent Smiths in the last Matrix. To make it a bit less cluttered in the second image I showed only the even numbered shots and the next image the odd ones.

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That's pretty neat!
 
Pretty cool. A comment about lense artifacts ... your vertical alignment will appear off for any shots taken when you were not at the center of the field of view. The farther from the center and the wider angle the lense, the worse the effect. If you look critically at your photos, you can see it. Or take a look at any photo that has tall vertical elements near the edges. They lean and they curve, but we're so used to looking at photos and we "know" they're vertical, so we don't see it. Every once in a while you'll even see a painting where the "artist" cheated by projecting a photo for his sketch ... don't buy one of those. ;)
 
Gordon, yes I was shooting @ 10mm on a crop sensor so 35mm eq= 16mm which is still pretty wide angle. This is why on each end I appear as if I am coming at/going away from the camera instead of running by parallel. I actually excluded another shot or two of each end since the effect got worse, but decided to include them to the point I did. But good point I probably should mention that if trying to analyze form more seriously that my apparent lean back on the leftmost two and lean forward on the rightmost couple is an effect of lens, not that I am really leaning that much.

Edit... actually my first couple attempts where @ 10mm however I just checked this one was at 17mm according to xif... I think I zoomed in a bit since I didn't need any more fov and the distortion was excessive. FWIW
 

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