Shot of the day

**Big Dave** · 10th July 2005, 19:39

Some karma that it is of Feint?

As discussed feint - the hi-res of the shot is on my sharing space

http://homepage.mac.com/david_cohen_...eSharing1.html

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**Coyote** · 10th July 2005, 19:42

That is an awesome looking bike

**N4CR** · 10th July 2005, 19:47

Yeah that is FEINT.. same helmet as John.

**bugjuice** · 10th July 2005, 19:55

tis Feint. Yellow leathers with a red lid and grey bike (classsssssssssshhhhh)..
sweet shot, tho Dave..

**Big Dave** · 10th July 2005, 20:14

Originally Posted by bugjuice

tis Feint. Yellow leathers with a red lid and grey bike (classsssssssssshhhhh)..
sweet shot, tho Dave..

yeah - i knew it was him - just meant that it's good that because he has done the yards behind the camera it's good the best shot turns out be be of him.

Calmer they call it.

Also means that he owes me.

And you can talk about clashing?!?!?

**FEINT** · 10th July 2005, 20:26

Originally Posted by Big Dave

yeah - i knew it was him - just meant that it's good that because he has done the yards behind the camera it's good the best shot turns out be be of him.

Calmer they call it.

Also means that he owes me.

And you can talk about clashing?!?!?

yes yes yes, I owe you

That is one good shot!! I really like it, going to print it out and hang it on my wall!!

Thanks Big Dave.

Need to have a photoshoot ride

Thanks alot Big Dave!

**Big Dave** · 10th July 2005, 20:39

Originally Posted by FEINT

yes yes yes, I owe you

That is one good shot!! I really like it, going to print it out and hang it on my wall!!

Thanks Big Dave.

Need to have a photoshoot ride

Thanks alot Big Dave!

It's all right mate - just fun.

**Big Dave** · 10th July 2005, 20:41

Thanks tristank - (read the first post.)

**N4CR** · 10th July 2005, 20:53

Were you doing all the focus and exposure manually? Eg no AF/AE/Auto ISO etc (yeah I know I'm a pussy but I never was bought up the 'film way'

).

Nice shot that one... good to see the background moving but keeping the rider in focus etc! I suppose it comes with practice.

**v.ros`** · 10th July 2005, 21:58

Big Dave:
Awesome shots mate.. well done

**SPORK** · 10th July 2005, 21:59

Skuuuuuuuxx aue fulla aue bey!

**Big Dave** · 10th July 2005, 22:33

Originally Posted by tristank

Were you doing all the focus and exposure manually? Eg no AF/AE/Auto ISO etc (yeah I know I'm a pussy but I never was bought up the 'film way'

).

Nice shot that one... good to see the background moving but keeping the rider in focus etc! I suppose it comes with practice.

OK If you really want to know: (i'm waiting till I get the television for some cricket)

I waited at that corner for 15 minutes. There is a nice bench seat and a plaque dedicating the reserve. the sun was out and U2 were thumping on the iPod and I had already been out to the chippie and back - so it was just nice.

But when the cloud cover come over I paced out the distance from where i was sitting to the racing line and subsequently manually focussed at 21mtrs and locked it

I also manually set shutter speed at 1/450 when the sun was out and knocked it up down to 1/200 when the clouds were over. also manually adjusted aperture accordingly. (thats why i overexposed roo - first one can be hit and miss)

Then follow pan the target bike to the spot on the racing line previously focussed on - keeping the bike as still as possible in the frame - and schnap.

What i learned from today is that you can't rush picking the bikes up. Because there was so many I was firing before getting the pan in sync with the target and it gets fuzzy.

The ones where i took my time and targeted for more than a second were the crisp ones.

The idea next time is to make the group aware and ask them to space out past the location. - (if pyrocam could get any more spaced out that is.)

Tweaked 'em in photoshop, unsharp masked the fuzzy ones, watched 'em go grainy when i compressed them for the net, and you've seen the rest