On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:12:28AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: > Howdy, folks, > > I just received an interesting email from Road Atlanta. It seems > they're going to do something a bit unique this year. It seems that the > Tour de Georgia bicycle racing event will hold a Time Trials stage there > on the 24th of April. The bicycle teams will actually run four laps on > the track. Attendance is free but there's an $8 per vehicle parking fee > at Road Atlanta. > > Information on the Tour de Georgia is available at > > http://www.tourdegeorgia.com > > Event information from Road Atlanta is available at > > http://roadatlanta.com/news_detail.lasso?-Token.id=33351 > > So, if you like photographing bicycle road racing, there's going to be a > lot of it in North Georgia towards the end of April. I know the track > well, but haven't shot bicycle racing before. I may try to wrangle some > access to see what sort of photos I can get.
Go for it! From personal experience, I can testify that skills learned photographing race cars translate directly to photographing bicycles - you just have to remember bikes go a little slower, so you might want to use a shutter speed around 2x to 4x what you would use for a car. The Tour de Georgia is a pretty big event - only the Tour of California beats it on this side of the Atlantic. Access shouldn't be too much of a problem - most of the time they will let the public right up alongside the race route. The only question is whether this is practical at a track venue. April 24th, you say. I wonder if I need a trip back east ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
