My name is Hadrien Picard (website | Instagram). I'm a photographer & director living in Paris. I film & shoot a lot of different subjects but I started professionally as a BMX photographer, where I learned a lot. Believe me, if you can get a photo at the perfect moment, with the right composition & the right light on your 6X6 medium format of a rider risking his life to get a trick that, if he pulls it he will never do it again, then you'll be not to bad shooting other subjects a bit less fast & dangerous:) Anyway, a couple of days ago, I was doing what a lot of photographers are doing under quarantine: looking in old hard drives. I was happy to find again an old idea I made a reality thanks to one of the nicest BMX rider, Romuald Noirot, AKA Bibi, who accepted to give a try. It was in 2006, I really wanted to show on a photo what the rider sees doing a trick. And I wanted to do that during the night because it would have looked way cooler! At that time Go Pro was at its beginning, I don't remember if the brand was already imported in France or not. I checked Wikipedia & it looks like the Digital HERO of 2006 had a 640×460 camera... It would be hard to print a full page with that! So the only solution would be to put a real DSLR on the head...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Sunday, 10 May, 2020