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I was thinking of making it only for the last race, thinking the experts race will be a good show and that since I only wanted to check out my new 15-85 lens that would be enough... but you know how we camera-loving people are, we start thinking about "maybe I can also try this and that" and " i don't want to miss a good shoot " and so on, so I finally found my self shooting all the races, even though I was late for the first one.
I ended up trying the 15-85 IS and was happy with it. I was afraid it'll focus slower then my Sigma 18-50 F2.8 but I actually think it is faster. I also liked the range (I left my 10-20 in the car).
I also played a little with my better beamer flash extender, but I'm still learning.
the last thing I experimented with was my slave flash. I first tried my radio triggers but couldn't make them work (need to check the batteries) and then I used the on camera IR signal to trigger the slave. it worked great and I'm very happy with the results.
last thing - one of the veterans riders told me before the 2nd race (minis/ladies and veterans) that what I want to do is photograph the expert's race because that's where all the "air-time" will be. boy was he wrong - those kids are AWESOME !! they ride like they're not aware of the risks or they just don't care. brave souls and a lot of fun to photograph!
here are a few pictures from each race (sorry if it is too much) the rest are on my website. I uploaded some pictures which I felt the technically were bad just because I figured that the riders in those shoots will be happy to see their pictures even if they are not so good (to say the least)
Race 1:
Race 2:
The better beamer flash extender helps show the riders eyes
race 3:
In this picture you can see the slave flash I used in the next pictures to light the riders faces (the flash is on the right , next to the front wheel
Hope to see some of you other there someday.
Thanks
mati
I ended up trying the 15-85 IS and was happy with it. I was afraid it'll focus slower then my Sigma 18-50 F2.8 but I actually think it is faster. I also liked the range (I left my 10-20 in the car).
I also played a little with my better beamer flash extender, but I'm still learning.
the last thing I experimented with was my slave flash. I first tried my radio triggers but couldn't make them work (need to check the batteries) and then I used the on camera IR signal to trigger the slave. it worked great and I'm very happy with the results.
last thing - one of the veterans riders told me before the 2nd race (minis/ladies and veterans) that what I want to do is photograph the expert's race because that's where all the "air-time" will be. boy was he wrong - those kids are AWESOME !! they ride like they're not aware of the risks or they just don't care. brave souls and a lot of fun to photograph!
here are a few pictures from each race (sorry if it is too much) the rest are on my website. I uploaded some pictures which I felt the technically were bad just because I figured that the riders in those shoots will be happy to see their pictures even if they are not so good (to say the least)
Race 1:
Race 2:
The better beamer flash extender helps show the riders eyes
race 3:
In this picture you can see the slave flash I used in the next pictures to light the riders faces (the flash is on the right , next to the front wheel
Hope to see some of you other there someday.
Thanks
mati
