Archive for the ‘Triathlon’ Category
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
From the 9th to the 13th of September I had the pleasure of working with Duane Hart and the rest of the SportingImages team at the ITU Triathlon World Champs on the Gold Coast. It was a hot couple of days for a Sydney sider like me, but great fun.
My job was to run the remotes at the finish line. I had my main camera (1D MK3/70-200) which triggered 2 remote cameras. The idea is to have 3 of the same shot from different angles.
Everything ran pretty well. There were some hitches with camera location, batteries etc, but generally I was really happy with how it all worked.
I’m going up to Noosa this weekend to do much the same thing, but this time I have arranged mains power for the cameras. this time there’s not worry about batteries.
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
It was a blast to spend the day with some of Australia’s best Triathletes. Normally I watch them wizz past me on the course!! The shoot was by FusePhotography and Christian Blanchard was directing the action. I was the #2 shooter getting different angles and candid shots.
The constant heavy showers made the day quite a bit harder. I’ve never been keen on letting my cameras get wet….perhaps I’m a big sook, but these stuff is not cheep so I look after it. Rain covers, plastic bags and the good-old postie elastic band kept everything dry.
I’m pretty happy with the results. I used the ST-E2 and a remote flash (Camera left). Next time I’ll use a 580-Master on the camera with a 580-Slave off-camera for fill. Many of the shots were not clearly lit and given the brand is all important, basic front lighting is kinda important. Everything fixed up ok in post processing, but I’d prefer to get it right on-camera where possible. Given the gloomy day we used 1/2 CTO warming gels on the flashes and set the WB to cloudy. This warmed up the “models” nicely.
I’m looking forward to see the final results. I’ll start stalking Scody shops to see if my shots made the swing-tags etc… Sad I know.
Tags: Blanchard, Christian, clothing, commercial, CTO, Flash, Fuse, Half, Ironman, models, photography, rain, Sport, ST-E2, triathlete, Triathlon
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Last weekend saw me shooting a triathlon festival in Forster NSW. My client was after a large amount of shots, but had a limited budget. Time for the remotes!!!!
The idea was to have 2 shooters and 4 cameras. Each shooter (Me or Murray) would shoot a main shot and have a differing images shot at the same time.
Murray and his Remote
Murray’s shots
Me and my Remote
My shots
We’re getting there. There is quite and art to getting the remote camera’s framing, focus and metering perfect, when you set the cameras at 5:30am. I’m pretty happy with these and I know they’ll keep getting better.
Tags: , angles, camera, Course, finish, Forster, Gantry, line, Long, mount, multiple, Multisport, Murray, remote, schute, Triathlon, Wilkinson
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I’ve put some videos together from the Ironman weekend. Still new to Video so please excuse the shots and editing.
I spent quite a bit of time getting my gear ready for Ironman. I like to be prepared. Check the video for the gear list
Video of the Ironman Village and the locations for Sunday’s Race
Getting gear ready for the Carbo night and shots of the night itself
Getting all the gear ready for race day…
Shots of race day…
Tags: australia, images, Ironman, macquarie, photography, photos, port, Sport, Triathlon
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