Sunshine DH #4 Happy Snaps

[norv]

Blurry? Yep. Badly framed? 'Fraid so. Operator malfunction? Guilty as charged.
But I did get all the podiums...
Happy snaps from Round 4 of the Sunshine Series Downhill at Cedar Creek yesterday up now at http://www.longforest.com/gallery/sunshine_dh_4_06

http://www.longforest.com/images/stories/albums/sunshine_dh_4_06/DSCF3488_640.jpg
Dunno why that [img] code ain't working?

[DH_slave]

hey mate, you got the u17's wrong and the hardtail jnr's/snr's wrong.
cheers

[nate_1990]

nice pics man

[norv]

hey mate, you got the u17's wrong and the hardtail jnr's/snr's wrong.
cheers
Thanks for the heads up... I got a few jumps and corners wrong on Sunday as well!
Do ya reckon you can go back to the Album and make a comment on the ones I got wrong so I can fix them up?
Cheers

[Peelie]

fixed up i added the comments

[DeanE]

i like those pic's. good sized rock graden, can i ask how u got the affect that the back ground is moving but the rider is clear? cheers` deano

[norv]

Hey DeanE to get that effect you need a slow shutter speed, like 1/125 of a second or less. You have to pan with the rider so that the rider is kept sharp (does not move in the frame) but the background is blurred. It's a hit-or-miss technique and hard to get perfect results.
A variation is to use flash with a slow shutter speed. This works well with the rider close-up. The flash (usually 1/1000 of a second or more) freezes the rider but you get a ghost image as well because the shutter is still open after the flash is gone.

You can see this effect in this shot of Steve "Krusty" Kracj, notice the blurred shadow round the edge of the rider.
http://www.longforest.com/images/stories/albums/Bike/steve.jpg
Hope this helps!

Hey peelie thanks for the comments, I fixed the podiums and added the U15s.

[DeanE]

Hey DeanE to get that effect you need a slow shutter speed, like 1/125 of a second or less. You have to pan with the rider so that the rider is kept sharp (does not move in the frame) but the background is blurred. It's a hit-or-miss technique and hard to get perfect results.
A variation is to use flash with a slow shutter speed. This works well with the rider close-up. The flash (usually 1/1000 of a second or more) freezes the rider but you get a ghost image as well because the shutter is still open after the flash is gone.

You can see this effect in this shot of Steve "Krusty" Kracj, notice the blurred shadow round the edge of the rider.


cheers. yeh i'll have to try it out, i think that its a a really cool style of photos that are out there.

[norv]

Dunno if any admins are reading this, but I can see the photos marked with tags when I'm not logged in but when I log in the photos disappear and revert to text links???