Few sneaky peeks at recent work...

I am always sat on a whole load of nice photos. They just sit on my hard drives till the magazines/websites etc have published them, then I can put them online...

So I am sat on most of the shots from BDS 1, a good few from shoots for various companies, magazines etc all of while will surface sometime in the coming months...

Every few days though I take a photo of my PC as I'm working, and tweet the shots, these are little sneak peeks at what I'm working on, whats coming up etc

Anyway thought I would put a few on here from the last week or so, and let you all know to follow me on twitter to keep up to date on all these little sneaky peeks as and when they hit the Internet...

http://twitter.com/#!/JacobGibbins or @JacobGibbins

Shot from a recent shoot for MBR magazine @mbrmagazine

Shot from a recent shoot for Saracen bikes @SaracenBikes

One from BDS 1 at Nant G

Shot from a recent shoot for MBR magazine @mbrmagazine

Another one from BDS 1 of another @SaracenBikes rider

and another one from BDS 1 of another @SaracenBikes rider

A shot of some Lycra and road this time on a recent shoot for Aztec brakes...

One of Rich Thomas on a recent shoot for his new team

Another one of Rich from the same shoot

Last sneak shot for this post is another from a shoot for @SaracenBikes

Anyway I'm sure you get the picture ( HAR HAR ) all photographers and Filmer's sit on most of their best work for some time after shooting it before it sees the light of day...its hard when all you want to do is shout about some sick new shots you have, but Patience is as they say a virtue blah blah!

Anyway http://twitter.com/#!/JacobGibbins or @JacobGibbins

Ta J

Few recent tear sheets...

Seeing your work in print never gets old... being able to go in to any newsagents or petrol station in the UK pick up a magazine and see some of your photos is amazing.

Anyway just a few of the tear sheets from the last month or so from Dirt,MBR,Madison and Professional Photographer...

From last months Dirt, Adam Brayton Bike check...

MBR last month, shot of Mono riding up on Dartmoor

Dirt last month, Shot of Mitch Ropelato in the snap pages

In this new Dirt, Saracen Myst ad from a shoot In wales a month or so ago for Madison

From the latest professional photographer magazine, middle left is mine...

Anyway will put more up as and when they hit the shelves

For all of this sooner follow me on twitter @JacobGibbins

Or on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/JacobGibbinsPhotography

As all the shots in this post where posted the day I saw them on those...

Madison/Saracen at BDS 1 - Vid and Photos

As you will know if you look at this blog and saw the last post, I was up at BDS 1 this weekend just gone.

Working mainly for the new 2011 Madison/Saracen team.

A big new pro team with 6 riders from youth right through to both men and women's elite.

Anyway just a round up of a bit of what I shot for them over the weekend both stills and video...

The team pits sat down at the bottom of Nant G
Youth rider Phillip Atwill who took the win at Rd 1
All the team red bikes on the stands outside the pits
Jack in the rocks
The team bikes getting some TLC on Sat evening
One of the team ( cant see the number board ) in the steep woods
Harry Molloy in the top rocks pinned, look at the eyes!

Aswell and stills I am shooting a race video each weekend with how the team does, the video from Rd 1 gives you an idea of who's on the team and how they did...


More Mountain Biking Videos >>

And also a bonus video for the start of the season a MTB cribs video showing you round the pretty sick team pits/truck



More posts coming up in the next few days with other stuff I have been working on...
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BDS Rd 1 Nant Gwrtheyrn

I have been pretty flat out the last week...hence the slight lack of posts.

Started off with a VERY early start last Thurs morning to head up to the Quantocks to do a shoot for MBR, then stay over night at camp Anderson, then off to Rd 1 of the BDS ( www.halobritishdownhillseries.com ) at Nant Gwrtheyrn in N.Wales.

A new venue for 2011, never been there before, great venue, good track, even better cafe.

1 day of dry weather, one of fucking piss...Hard work in that weather, especially when you have to shoot both stills and video for some of the biggest teams and magazines...so hard work but worth it.

Cant put to much online, or anything of anyone that got a top flight result, but here's a few teasers of the 2nd rate shots...

Rich Thomas who I got a lift up with taking a shot while driving through the amazing landscape of N.Wales

There where a few big names at the race...

The wet muddy track gave a few riders some trouble...

Rocks and more rocks...

Juice Lubes rider Adam Price who I shot for PROFILES in the last rock garden on the steep part of the track

Em David the welsh pinner, well...pinning!

Unknown rider, nice pan...

Leon Rosser in the top woods

Dan Critchlow on the bottom rock jump

Anyway keep an eye on the big sites for the work I did for the Madison/Saracen team soon... ( who had a good weekend with 2 wins in youth and elite women's )

Ta

Jacob

New Evoc camera bag to test / try...

I popped down to SilverfishUK down in Saltash this morning after getting a nice email from Pete Drew saying he had something for me...

A new Prototype camera bag from Evoc...

First time I saw Evocs stuff was at Euro bike last year and there bags for carrying bikes, suitcases, gear bags etc are all really well through through bits of kit...so the camera bag should be alright...

Anyway only had it for an hour or so so just check out all the pockets and straps etc

First few things I have noticed:

• Big, Boxy and large
• TONES of room for gear
• Lacking padded laptop space
• has enough straps for about 5000 tripods/spades/skis etc

Now When Pete asked me if I could do this I said yes of course, but its no secret I'm one of Fstop Gears staff togs along with the likes of Sven/Clay etc ( Weird hey!? ) and also have a really good relationship with the guys at Lowe Pro...So to be quite honest I'm all sorted as far as bags go...but I will give this one a try out in the woods, give it a hammering and report back to the people that be...

Anyway few photos of the new Evoc next to the bench mark for adventure camera backpacks the Fstop...

( see blog post on all the bags I use here:
http://jacobgibbinsdotcodotuk.blogspot.com/2010/12/camera-bag-showdown.html
The Evoc will replace the Tamrac... )

Here is the guts... you cant quite see how big the Fstop is as its crammed with all my gear, but they are about the same size....

The backs all done up, nothing to interesting here, the Fstops soft foam back is hard to beat...

And the fronts...the Evoc still looking new ( as you would expect ) and the Fstop looking a bit grubby as it gets used all the time and thrown around like a rag doll....


Full review on it in a week or so once I have had a real play...

Few BTS photos from the Anderson Brothers DirtTV shoot

This Sunday just gone I went down to Triscombe in the Quantoc hills in Somerset to film for DirtTV with 2 rippers Isaac and Joel.

They are 2 brothers that live in the middle of the woods, dad runs the uplift, they do tones of racing, are both rapid as shit...and nice guys to.

Anyway few photos of me working away, taken by Dave Morgan ( ta man )

Me getting some interviews and shots of them at the top of the hill...

Shooting Joel going off to A&E

Me with Dolly mk 4...

Down with both cameras rolling as they blitz bast

Dolly trolley on the floor getting the wide shot while me being dragged over by the Fstop bag get the tight shot...

Anyway few good photos and the video can be found on Dirts site here:

http://dirt.mpora.com/news/dirttv-day-anderson-brothers.html

Still shot from the day, Isaac here pinning round a berm in the evening light...Got a few more from this spot that are SICK but holding them back for now...

Bit of Devon XC

Over the past month or so me and my mate and fellow mountain bike videographer Mono ( the man behind footoutflatout and the MTBcut WC vids ) Have been going out and shoot photos on a few of the XC rides that are around the Tavistock area.

Needless to say if you have seen the photos below we live in a rather nice place to ride bikes. One shot is from a natural loop up on Dartmoor and the other from Gawton the trail center down here...

Anyway if you follow me on twitter ( @jacobgibbins ) you would have seen me tweet a sneak peak shot of a nice shot in the new issue of MBR from the same shoot as the Dartmoor shot below this morning...So thought I would pop up a couple of the other shots as they are just to nice to sit on my hard drive any longer ha



This First one was shot up above Burrator reservoir out near Pricetown.

Shot with the 80-200mm , in the late afternoon at the start of Feb...



The Second was taken a few weeks before the first shot out at Gawton the ever famous trail center and DH mecca down nr Tavistock. This shot was on the more XC track there HSD and also shot on the 80-200mm

Anyway , Ta to Mono for getting on his Orange 5 and giving me something to take photos of...and will get some more shots up soonish...Enjoy!

( The home of all things me on FB :
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jacob-Gibbins-Photography/125095350896134 )

Blind Summit Kilimanjaro 2011 Video

Now this hasn't turned out anything like what I had planned when we started this whole thing...

But when your climbing a 20,000 ft mountain with your blind father, looking after him comes a few steps above shooting kick ass video...and as my dad was quite badly effected by the altitude on the trip the video on this trip took a big time back seat...

Any who, that's why its a bit sub par, and not what I'm sure you have come to expect from my lens...

But I think it gives you a good idea and a different angle on the trip, something the photos just couldn't...

So enjoy...and please visit our just giving page and donate if you haven't already done so...

http://www.justgiving.com/BlindSummit2011





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYf4vCcTtr0

On a different more 2 wheeled related note, I have a few rad things coming in the next few weeks so keep half an eye out...

Madison Saracen DH Team Launched

Now the 2011 Madison/Saracen team has been announced and on the big sites I feel OK saying I'm going to be working with the team with regards to all things media during the 2011 season both on the WCs with Harry and Manon and at the BDS races with the whole team.

Great team, Great people, Great bikes , Great company. Should be a good season...

Anyway the new team press release that hit all the big sites in the last week or so has a bit of my work in...some photos shot down at Madison HQ a month or so ago, A video shot over the day at HQ , and a few days in Wales riding with Harry and Manon.

Anyway take a look at some of the photos and the video and for all the info on the team etc see the link to it on PinkBike here:

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/MADISON-SARACEN-DOWNHILL-TEAM-LAUNCHED-2011.html

Some Studio style shots of the new 2011 team issue bike. Shot against a white wall in a room at Madison HQ with the bike on a table.

flash on the wall, and another flash bounced off the white ceiling to soften it.

Bit of photoshop and this is what comes out...

Shot of the whole team with the bike. Same set up as the shot for the bike really...

Portrait of Harry with the bike, again same set up as the others.

One of the Info cards that was put together for all the riders. Portrait shots shot with the same set up as the shots of the bike but with some tweaks on the main light as not to cast any harsh shadows

Madison/Saracen Team 2011

And this is the video for the team launch I put together.

Few shots from Madison HQ, mostly riding shots from Wales...

With BDS 1 only a few weeks away, you can expect a good deal of media coming outa me from there...so keep an eye on here and the other sites in the week after that.

Bring on the races!

BlindSummit2011 Photo Book

If you saw the post I put on here a few days ago with a peak at some of the photos from my dad and I's recent trip to climb Kilimanjaro you will be expecting the photo book...

http://jacobgibbinsdotcodotuk.blogspot.com/2011/02/blind-summit-kilimanjaro-2011-part-1.html

Anyway I thought rather than have a gallery on my Flickr that was a bit clunky and slow I would put together a nice PDF photo book and get it up in Issuu.

With around 60 ish of the best images from the week, telling the story of the trip.

From sun sets to sun rises, from forests to glaciers to the people who made the trip you can see it all with some captions giving you a bit more of an insight in to the images.

I have put the book online free of charge for a reason, go look, and after looking at the photos hopefully you realise how much of an epic task this was and consider donating via the justgiving page:

http://www.justgiving.com/BlindSummit2011

Anyway the book

Let me know your thoughts and expect a short video summing the trip up soonish

http://issuu.com/jacobgibbins/docs/blindsummit_kilimanjaro_trek_feb_20112

Open publication - Free publishing - More action