142 - Ride - February 28-March 5, 2015
Jerry-
I was hoping the ride theme wouldn't be too difficult for you guys. I've seen your bicycle, motorcyle, and unicycle photos and knew you could do it. And your photos have been exciting! Lately I've been into selfies - and this week's photo continues with this theme. I even put the result on my facebook page and was rightfully chastized for riding helmetless. So eventually this spring I'll go out helmet shopping. Maybe Deron has some good suggestions. Perhaps some bright accents would look nice, I could customize it with the left over tinfoil from the previous assignment.
Attached is the photo of me riding my bicycle one handed, camera in the other, cruising along. Gone with the Schwinn. I've managed to collect three Schwinn bikes. My first is a 5 speed Collegiate, bought in 1968 with earnings from mowing lawns. Then I bought a mountain bike via Craigslist for $70 a few years back. The bike in the photo came from an apartment complex dumpster (free, just needed tubes). I think its an early 80's Schwinn Traveler.
Camera was the Nikon D5200 with 16-85 set to 16. Exposure was 1/15 @ F18, ISO 400.
I was hoping the ride theme wouldn't be too difficult for you guys. I've seen your bicycle, motorcyle, and unicycle photos and knew you could do it. And your photos have been exciting! Lately I've been into selfies - and this week's photo continues with this theme. I even put the result on my facebook page and was rightfully chastized for riding helmetless. So eventually this spring I'll go out helmet shopping. Maybe Deron has some good suggestions. Perhaps some bright accents would look nice, I could customize it with the left over tinfoil from the previous assignment.
Attached is the photo of me riding my bicycle one handed, camera in the other, cruising along. Gone with the Schwinn. I've managed to collect three Schwinn bikes. My first is a 5 speed Collegiate, bought in 1968 with earnings from mowing lawns. Then I bought a mountain bike via Craigslist for $70 a few years back. The bike in the photo came from an apartment complex dumpster (free, just needed tubes). I think its an early 80's Schwinn Traveler.
Camera was the Nikon D5200 with 16-85 set to 16. Exposure was 1/15 @ F18, ISO 400.
Don-
Strolling with my wife in the Animas River Park I spied a police officer riding
through the park and took pictures of him coming at us. As we continued walking
the officer made the circle (over bridges) and came at us again and I then took
a couple more pictures. I came up with this one from the second set. This guy
had a smile, slowed and talked to people, a really great guy. By the way this is
the same Animas river that was orange some months ago. They should rename
it the Arsenic River.
Well as the story goes. shot at 1/400 second, f/9, ISO 100 and 200mm.
As the story goes I edited these pictures in Lightroom and Camera Raw attempting
to make a decision on which was better. The result was I felt I was
continually achieving better results in Camera Raw off Photoshop. Now
what do I do? I will do both and take what I think is the best.
Strolling with my wife in the Animas River Park I spied a police officer riding
through the park and took pictures of him coming at us. As we continued walking
the officer made the circle (over bridges) and came at us again and I then took
a couple more pictures. I came up with this one from the second set. This guy
had a smile, slowed and talked to people, a really great guy. By the way this is
the same Animas river that was orange some months ago. They should rename
it the Arsenic River.
Well as the story goes. shot at 1/400 second, f/9, ISO 100 and 200mm.
As the story goes I edited these pictures in Lightroom and Camera Raw attempting
to make a decision on which was better. The result was I felt I was
continually achieving better results in Camera Raw off Photoshop. Now
what do I do? I will do both and take what I think is the best.
Byron-
In Southern California there are 2 modes of transportation, walking and driving a car (Deron is the lone exception). I've done a lot of both during the last 2 months. This photo shows my ride, a Buick Encore. It is an indirect image of it but it is shown in its element. To get this photo I had to break California law. When I saw the opportunity approaching, I took out my phone and carefully composed the shot as I was passing by. It seems like 10% of the people on the road break that law daily.
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In Southern California there are 2 modes of transportation, walking and driving a car (Deron is the lone exception). I've done a lot of both during the last 2 months. This photo shows my ride, a Buick Encore. It is an indirect image of it but it is shown in its element. To get this photo I had to break California law. When I saw the opportunity approaching, I took out my phone and carefully composed the shot as I was passing by. It seems like 10% of the people on the road break that law daily.
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Deron-
As luck would have it, I had a number of opportunities to get this right... not sure I did, though. Last Sunday, after the theme was announced I went out to the Jurupa Valley Grand Prix Bicycle Race and took some photos. A mile down the road is Adams Kart Track, where the motorcycles were racing, so I took some photos. A mile on the other side of the bike race is Milestone Motocross Park, so I went over there and took some photos. At Milestone there was a hole in the fence so I walked through straight onto the track... shoot first, apologize later.
The photo I went with is the last one, just because it's a little more technical than the others. I almost went with the moto-x bike in full flight, with the pilot's orange goggles looking for the landing... although, I like the motorcycles racing, with 500 setting up his next turn. You know, I like the first one as well, with the posse chasing down the lone gunman.
All in all, it was a good day. Three disciplines of two-wheeled racing within a two mile radius on the same day. Not bad!
As luck would have it, I had a number of opportunities to get this right... not sure I did, though. Last Sunday, after the theme was announced I went out to the Jurupa Valley Grand Prix Bicycle Race and took some photos. A mile down the road is Adams Kart Track, where the motorcycles were racing, so I took some photos. A mile on the other side of the bike race is Milestone Motocross Park, so I went over there and took some photos. At Milestone there was a hole in the fence so I walked through straight onto the track... shoot first, apologize later.
The photo I went with is the last one, just because it's a little more technical than the others. I almost went with the moto-x bike in full flight, with the pilot's orange goggles looking for the landing... although, I like the motorcycles racing, with 500 setting up his next turn. You know, I like the first one as well, with the posse chasing down the lone gunman.
All in all, it was a good day. Three disciplines of two-wheeled racing within a two mile radius on the same day. Not bad!
Kevin-
I had a problem. When the RIDE theme was announced; taking a photograph with a rider on a bicycle immediately came to mind. But generally I have tried to avoid bicycle photos, leaving that realm to the excellence of Deron.
Now I will note that I have made exceptions, for Week 39 when the theme was BICYCLE(S), Week 86 when the theme was TRIBUTE (I was assigned to Deron and my shot was of a bike stand as a tribute to him), and Week 103 when the theme was HUMAN POWERED (I had originally hoped to get the rider, Atticus, on a tricycle, but it was clear that he considered himself far too old for such a thing). But as I said, for RIDE a bicycle was stuck in my head. But so was doing something with a multi-image look. I did some experimenting with multiple exposure, but wasn’t happy with any of the tests. I also played around with the Repeating Flash feature on my Nikon strobe units. That allows the flash to blink a number of times at a number of speeds (both of which are adjustable). That’s the approach I finally went with.
My friend Tom Conrad is a serious bicyclist. Not as serious as Deron of course, no one is as serious as Deron, but still pretty dedicated. He agreed to be the subject. I had wanted to get him to a really isolated spot, in the dark, with no street lights, no background lights. But that would have meant him biking in the darkness to that spot, with no front light on the bike to guide him, while things like cars and buses zoomed by, or worse. It seemed like too much to risk for a photo, so I changed the design a bit to shoot at the cul-de-sac on my street.
Nikon D4s with a 70-200 f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 80mm for this shot. The exposure was ISO 2000, f/6.3 for 1.3 seconds. During one second of that exposure the flash units fired 10 times.
I tried shots that were hand-held (trying to pan the camera with Tom’s motion), shots with a locked-down camera on a tripod, and shots on a tripod where things were locked vertically, but I could still pan the camera horizontally, roughly following Tom. I say “roughly” as looking through the viewfinder was impossible as it was dark for the entire 1.3 second exposure. That last method was used for this image.
One Nikon flash unit was lighting Tom from the front. Another one, with a blue gel on it was providing a bit of back light (and great color on the pavement).
Anyway, like it or not, here is my RIDE photo…
I had a problem. When the RIDE theme was announced; taking a photograph with a rider on a bicycle immediately came to mind. But generally I have tried to avoid bicycle photos, leaving that realm to the excellence of Deron.
Now I will note that I have made exceptions, for Week 39 when the theme was BICYCLE(S), Week 86 when the theme was TRIBUTE (I was assigned to Deron and my shot was of a bike stand as a tribute to him), and Week 103 when the theme was HUMAN POWERED (I had originally hoped to get the rider, Atticus, on a tricycle, but it was clear that he considered himself far too old for such a thing). But as I said, for RIDE a bicycle was stuck in my head. But so was doing something with a multi-image look. I did some experimenting with multiple exposure, but wasn’t happy with any of the tests. I also played around with the Repeating Flash feature on my Nikon strobe units. That allows the flash to blink a number of times at a number of speeds (both of which are adjustable). That’s the approach I finally went with.
My friend Tom Conrad is a serious bicyclist. Not as serious as Deron of course, no one is as serious as Deron, but still pretty dedicated. He agreed to be the subject. I had wanted to get him to a really isolated spot, in the dark, with no street lights, no background lights. But that would have meant him biking in the darkness to that spot, with no front light on the bike to guide him, while things like cars and buses zoomed by, or worse. It seemed like too much to risk for a photo, so I changed the design a bit to shoot at the cul-de-sac on my street.
Nikon D4s with a 70-200 f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 80mm for this shot. The exposure was ISO 2000, f/6.3 for 1.3 seconds. During one second of that exposure the flash units fired 10 times.
I tried shots that were hand-held (trying to pan the camera with Tom’s motion), shots with a locked-down camera on a tripod, and shots on a tripod where things were locked vertically, but I could still pan the camera horizontally, roughly following Tom. I say “roughly” as looking through the viewfinder was impossible as it was dark for the entire 1.3 second exposure. That last method was used for this image.
One Nikon flash unit was lighting Tom from the front. Another one, with a blue gel on it was providing a bit of back light (and great color on the pavement).
Anyway, like it or not, here is my RIDE photo…
Paul-
Another brief entry. (You’re welcome.) But first, this:
1) The carousel is made by a firm called S B Ramagosa & Sons, Inc. located in Wildwood, NJ.
2) I wanted to take a picture of it moving but was denied doing so. Long story.
3) After some research, I found out that carousels, gallopers, roundabouts, merry-go-rounds, whirligigs, spinning or flying jennies, dip-twisters, and flying horses are basically the same thing.
4) In the United Kingdom, merry-go-rounds usually turn clockwise, while in North America and Mainland Europe, carousels typically go anticlockwise. (Source: Wikipedia.)
Our story so far: 18-55mm with the lens set at 35mm; aperture priority; pattern-weighted metering; ISO 1600; 1/25 sec.; -1/3 EV; f/11. Mono pod used.
Another brief entry. (You’re welcome.) But first, this:
1) The carousel is made by a firm called S B Ramagosa & Sons, Inc. located in Wildwood, NJ.
2) I wanted to take a picture of it moving but was denied doing so. Long story.
3) After some research, I found out that carousels, gallopers, roundabouts, merry-go-rounds, whirligigs, spinning or flying jennies, dip-twisters, and flying horses are basically the same thing.
4) In the United Kingdom, merry-go-rounds usually turn clockwise, while in North America and Mainland Europe, carousels typically go anticlockwise. (Source: Wikipedia.)
Our story so far: 18-55mm with the lens set at 35mm; aperture priority; pattern-weighted metering; ISO 1600; 1/25 sec.; -1/3 EV; f/11. Mono pod used.