Saturday I was in Fair Hill Maryland for what I think is my last cyclocross race of the year...at least to race. Fair Hill is only 20 minutes from my house so this was a must do race for me.
In a nutshell, the sun was out in full force today so shadows were difficult to deal with at times. One thing to note is at these events, usually throughout the day I find my sweet spots to shoot from and carry those spots out from race to race as the day progresses. With daylight savings though and the sun setting much earlier I noticed that these \"sweet\" spots were changing all the time so
I needed to keep on my toes looking for new locations all the time.
C&C welcome.
#1
Decided to try and shoot a bit wide this week...so I set down the 300 for a bit and use the 14-24 f/2.8 for a bit
Start of the mens Pro race
#2
15 year old Jeff Bahnson - 2 (maybe 3) years running cyclocross National Champion racing with the Pro field this week.
#3
The sun setting late in the day offered some killer light.
#4
3 flash set up, but I messed up this week. I forgot my cable at home so I had to leave my master flash on camera which in my opinion flattens out the frontal light. 2 flashes I had placed to the rear I set to manual this week. Battery life and recycle time is much better. I think next time out I\'ll bring my portable light stand for better directional light placement.
#5
......you can see the difference in lighting throughout the day. The image above was taken earlier in the day - I really need to warm up the WB just a bit - this was more flash and not much ambient.
This image was taken later in the afternoon and the light temperature was much warmier - more ambient an not as much flash.
#6
...and tried a few vertically tight
#7
#8
There was some decent lighting between buildings - placing most of the rider in shadows, but from the waist up in some nice light.
Saturday I was in Fair Hill Maryland for what I think is my last cyclocross race of the year...at least to race. Fair Hill is only 20 minutes from my house so this was a must do race for me.
In a nutshell, the sun was out in full force today so shadows were difficult to deal with at times. One thing to note is at these events, usually throughout the day I find my sweet spots to shoot from and carry those spots out from race to race as the day progresses. With daylight savings though and the sun setting much earlier I noticed that these \"sweet\" spots were changing all the time so
I needed to keep on my toes looking for new locations all the time.
C&C welcome.
#1
Decided to try and shoot a bit wide this week...so I set down the 300 for a bit and use the 14-24 f/2.8 for a bit
Start of the mens Pro race
#2
15 year old Jeff Bahnson - 2 (maybe 3) years running cyclocross National Champion racing with the Pro field this week.
#3
The sun setting late in the day offered some killer light.
#4
3 flash set up, but I messed up this week. I forgot my cable at home so I had to leave my master flash on camera which in my opinion flattens out the frontal light. 2 flashes I had placed to the rear I set to manual this week. Battery life and recycle time is much better. I think next time out I\'ll bring my portable light stand for better directional light placement.
#5
......you can see the difference in lighting throughout the day. The image above was taken earlier in the day - I really need to warm up the WB just a bit - this was more flash and not much ambient.
This image was taken later in the afternoon and the light temperature was much warmier - more ambient an not as much flash.
#6
...and tried a few vertically tight
#7
#8
There was some decent lighting between buildings - placing most of the rider in shadows, but from the waist up in some nice light.
#9
always have to post up a Super Man
#10
#11
....playing around
Michael
Nov 09, 2009 at 03:31 PM
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