Dave, These are your best pictures so far. Good light is clearly your friend. :-) I liked many of the people shots. Their faces and expressions were clearly visible. And some of the pre-race staging shots helped tell the story. Plus I liked the artistic ones with the racer on the water with mountains in the background. It's beautiful country. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:49 AM, David Mann<[email protected]> wrote: > It was a win-win situation for me this morning. > > The weather forecast was for southerly gales, rain and snow down to 500 > metres elevation. Would not have been conducive to going out to take > pictures. > > I looked out the window just after 7:00 this morning, thinking "if it's > raining I go back to bed and have a nice sleep in". Hmm. Not a cloud in > sight. Well that's the Met Service for you, I'd listened to that forecast > not 5 minutes earlier. Taking pictures it is (I was actually hoping for a > sleep in, but I'll call it a win anyway). > > We actually had a beautiful sunny day today. Blue sky, no wind. Not even a > frost, which is what blue-sky-no-wind mornings usually bring at this time of > year. > > On the down side, transport arrangements conspired against me and I had to > leave the long lenses at home. My kit today was the K10D with FA*24, FA 100 > macro and FA*200 lenses. Still pining for an 80-200 f/2.8 zoom. > > <http://www.multisport.net.nz/photos/259-2009-07-19-brass-monkey-race-3.html> > > I was shooting into the sun quite a lot, not really much I could do about > that. But at least I had some sun this time. Some of the pics need to be > bigger to work well but I'm limited by the site template. > > The photo of the guy taking a swim was a lucky grab shot. I'd just arrived > at the riverside after walking a couple of hundred metres across the empty > riverbed when I saw him tip over. I only took 1 photo as I wanted to make > sure he didn't need help. A fellow who took a dip in the previous race had > to be resuscitated and is lucky to still be alive today. The camera handled > the exposure very well but it took me a while to bring the dynamic range > under control in Photoshop. > > My usual lessons: I still find editing very difficult. This gallery is > really on the limit length-wise but there were some photos (and one > combination) that really appealed to me for various reasons. I also need > more practice at post-processing. > > Cheers, > Dave > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
