Funny thing is, even though I did not race, I found it a little painful… The rocks thrown by the tires were flying all over through the air.
As the title says, I went and photographed an enduro race. I didn’t have the same amount of oportunities lately to shoot street photography, even though I still love it, but I compensated with some sports photography… I might actually go photograph a tennis contest and who knows, maybe I’ll win something :). Sports photography is something I like because of its diversity. And this is what I tried this time, some shots are froze, some have a blurred backfround, some are low, some are from high above…. basicaly they are diverse… Here are some of the best in my opinion…
Month: July 2013
National Mountainbike XCO Championship
Although I did participate in this contest, and it has been one of the most exciting races I’ve ever done, I will not talk about how I did and so on… I will talk about the pictures I took during the Elite’s race, and how I likw to take pictures of MTB races.
Old flash on a DSLR?
This is my first review, and it’s not actually a review. So, it all started about a month ago, when I had to shoot an event and needed a flash. Since I didn’t know how much would I ude it afterwards, I wanted to spend little to nothing on it. The cheapest new flash I could find was at about 50$, which I had doubts about speding the money or not. Then, I found an old Canon Speedlite 199A in a supposed good condition. After what I raed on forums, I wasn’t exactly sure it will work on my Canon 20D and not sure if it will fry my DSLR or not. So, I went ahead, and here is how things have gone…
I received it in 5 boxes put one in other, for protection. When I opened it, I was amazed… It was in a perfect condition, like new from the shelf. It had no scratch at all, and not even a sign of ware.
The other one on the left is the on/off button, which I think does the same you think it does… Down you have two butons, one for illuminating the dial which you’ll never use (at least I don’t) and the second one is for firing the flash manually. The dial serves as a calculator for what flash intensity do you need, but I find the trial and error method a little more efficient. The good thing about this flash is that its head tilts, so you can bounce it off a wall or something.
Update: Some sample shots.
How not to be inspired
Yep, as the title may say, I did not have my best photographic day… But still, I found theese 2 pictures decent. Actually, I did do something else this past week. I went to shoot a couple pictures in front of our MTB cycling team’s sponsor showroom. But still, nothing too interesting. The only thing is that nobody actually knew what they wanted, not even the person who organise the whole thing… I mean, they didn’t even know where they wanted their shots to be taken. Luckily, we staged a few scenes and I could get some images…