John Francis wrote: > 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.
Ooh, /there/ goes my hit rate. :-) With the cars I usually shoot 1/250 or 1/180, so 2x to 4x of that means I better not have any coffee for a week or so before the event. > The Tour de Georgia is a pretty big event - only the Tour of California > beats it on this side of the Atlantic. Wow! I don't know anything about bicycle racing of any sort. > 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. With it being on the track, and the track freshly repaved last year, I suspect they may keep the crowd behind the fences. I'll have to see if my corner worker and racer contacts have any more information. > April 24th, you say. I wonder if I need a trip back east ... If you make it, drop me a line, or I'm in the phone book for Cumming, GA. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- 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.
