On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > Some good shots there. Too many of them going downhill - it makes it look > easy. A few uphill shots with a bit of strain on their faces would have > added to it (and been easier to pan).
Take shots of me, I have strain on my face going down hill.;-) Dave > > Zooms have their own problems. To avoid changing lenses so often buy more > bodies. > > Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of David Mann >> Sent: 05 December 2009 09:31 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: GESO x2: Long Bays Classic >> >> The Long Bays Classic is one of the headline races of the >> Festival of Cycling that we have every year. >> >> It's raced over a very scenic 80km ride from Christchurch >> City, heading partway towards Akaroa then coming over Gebbies >> Pass and around the bays of Lyttelton Harbour, then over >> Evans Pass and back into the city to complete the loop. All >> the local road riders use this loop for their training. >> >> The elite racers do this in about two hours. The rest take >> about 2.5 to 3 hours with stragglers taking closer to 4. >> >> My plan was to sit at the top of Evans Pass and take photos >> as the riders came past but I exhausted my creative ideas >> fairly quickly so I headed over the top and down the other >> side, bit by bit, until I'd run out of hill and wandered off >> to meet my partner who was visiting her grandfather. >> >> I've split this into two galleries because the software >> preloads all the big images in the background so I tend to >> limit myself to about 20 per gallery. The photos are >> arranged in the order they were taken. >> >> <http://www.multisport.net.nz/photos/580-2009-12-05-armstrong- >> festival-of-cycling-photos-1.html> >> <http://www.multisport.net.nz/photos/581-2009-12-05-armstrong- >> festival-of-cycling-photos-2.html> >> >> I think I broke some kind of personal record, taking 378 >> photos. I also broke the hood on my FA24mm f/2 lens AGAIN. >> I'll have to use stronger glue this time. My eyes are >> feeling a bit strained after all this time in Bridge and >> Photoshop, and my lower leg muscles are sore from an >> unplanned run down the hill without any kind of warmup. >> >> I ended up abandoning the use of both front and rear lens >> caps in my bag as I was changing lenses so often. I need >> zoom lenses for this kind of thing. Not that f/2.8 Pentax >> zooms come up for sale very often (do Pentax still make f/2.8 zooms?). >> >> I'm going to try and make it to the criterium race in the >> city tomorrow afternoon. >> >> I'm thinking about posting a short "outtakes" gallery as >> there were a handful of photos that were *almost* the best of >> the day... but didn't work out, mostly due to focus problems. >> This tends to frustrate me :) >> >> The one big lesson of the day is that I need to learn how to >> pan properly. It's not easy when a bike is coming past at >> 90k within 2 or 3 feet of you. I have a lot of photos of half a bike. >> >> Comments are appreciated, positive and negative. Many of the >> photos are not critically sharp but they're good enough for >> the size they're presented at. And you'll notice that the >> weather didn't exactly play ball so I tended to crop most of >> the sky out. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly >> above and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
