The Greatest shot not captured

reedwj

reedwj

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I think anyone and everyone who has ever made a committed effort to put out a ski edit has faced the frustrations that we all run into at both sides of the lens.

Whether it was your only stomp on a shot where the cameras weren't rolling, a mistake by whoever was processing footage or a technical mishap that damaged the footage you hadn't uploaded yet. I am sure there are some brutal stories out there. Misery loves company so who has been in this position?
 
I am working on a POV edit right now and despite being happy with it I can't stop thinking about all the footage that was lost on my deepset day in Japan. I captured footage all day including the best pillow skiing of the trip. Near the end of the day (it was after 3:00) I took a tumble down a little pillow line and I felt the camera mount pop off of my helmet. I knew the camera was somewhere within 15 feet of my bomb hole but I simply couldn't find it. It was snowing hard and the light was getting worse and I finally just threw in the towel. I don't even know how many shots I lost but I know there had to be a few gems in there!
 
I was on film duty for the day filming some homies with a gopro (it was my first time ever using one) and long story short, I ended up with a days worth of snapshots instead of any video at all. Friends were killing all day too, they were pissssed
 
I have only shot urban rails 1 time. we were shooting on my roommates HDR FX-1. It took like 15 attempts to get this DFD rail and I took a beating. When i finally got it my friend nailed the shot and i was pretty pumped. 30 minutes later the tape was cued up wrong and we recorded right over the shot...

and that is why tape is the worst video format ever!!!
 
Well this one time I was coming in hot to the knuckle, popped a nollie with the intention of sending it pretty deep. Too bad I dipped my noses a bit too much. Double eject to unintended frontflip to gucci plateau, landed on my back and skis stayed on the knuckle. Not only was it not shot, but nobody saw it - lifts closed and I was the last one to ski down. Happened last season and still mad about that it wasn't recorded or even seen.
 
which begs the question, if you shred the gnar and there is no one there to see it did it really happen?
 
13220734:reedwj said:
which begs the question, if you shred the gnar and there is no one there to see it did it really happen?
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Unfortunately no.

"Pics or it didn't happen." -Socrates
 
Last season I was trying to film a bunch of side country shots and I hucked my first 30ft cliff at Alta. At the bottom I realized that I forgot to turn my go pro on. I tried it a couple more times with the camera on and couldn't land it again
 
This girl told me she would film my friend and I and put together an edit. We thought that she was legit so we didn't do any filming of our own. She has about a weeks worth of footage. Including a front swap on a flat, down that I was super stoked about. My best friend threw down hard that week as well and she was also really pumped about the edit. The week comes to an end and we came home. about a month goes by and still no edit. So we tried to get in touch with the girl and she said she doesn't know how to make an edit. So we asked her to send the footage to us. She still says she doesn't know how. Long story short, we made several attempts at getting her to send us the footie and we still don't have it. Shit really fucking sucks.
 
Backflipped out the end of a halfpipe onto a pile of gapers' skis only to find that my filmer had focused on the wrong guy the entire time.
 
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Backflipped out the end of a halfpipe onto a pile of gapers' skis only to find that my filmer had focused on the wrong guy the entire time.
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I feel like I've heard this story on here before. You like asked them to move their shit but they didn't...so you went for it anyways and landed on it or something eh?
 
tried my first cork 3 two weeks ago and landed on my back, thought that it would at least be a funny video, then i found out that my friend stopped filming when I was mid air and the landing was cut out. That sucked
 
Well I first started doing rails 2 ski days ago and the next ski day I was doing great the DFD at killi and I wanted to get a video of it. So whenever I was listening to music I could do it and then when I gave my phone to the guy I. The park crew to film I couldn't and then after lunch I was listening to music I did it like 400 more times but the park crew wasn't there to film.
 
The killer is the opposite record, happened a lot in the early days of doing lots of follows. Start recording when you want to stop, stop recording when you want to start. It's a hard lesson to learn but it gets beat into your head pretty firmly. Ugh.
 
Competed in a highschool comp a few years ago , had my friend filming the last jump where I was trying to land lincoln loops. He had the go pro in the wrong cycle, where he was filming while I was on the lift, and stopped filming for my shots. This is for about three runs. Very bummed, but he was awesome to volunteer to do it, so it was not a big deal
 
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