Posts Tagged ‘photos’
Monday, August 17th, 2009
I shot the 2009 Go Natural Multisport yesterday, and for it’s versitility, I used my 28-300. On a day where I had to move quite a bit and carry a variety of set-ups, the 28-300 really excelled.
Image Courtesy of Canon.com.au
I needed to be able to shoot cyclist, Kayakers, and Runners with the smallest set up possible. This lens, and a fish eye, are all I used all day. Some people have been quite harsh on this lens for not being as sharp as others (70-200), but for it’s range and size it does a really great job, and I can’t fault the results. Would I use it for a studio magazine cover…..not likely, but I’m not shooting for that. I’m outdoors lugging my
fat arse backpack up hills.
Even with a hot-shot or wireless flash the lens performed admirably. I’ll definitely use this lens again when shooting adventure races.
Tags: 28-300, adventure, australia, Canon, Flash, lens, Multisport, photography, photos, running, setup, Sport
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Today’s goals were to test some mountain bike set-ups and remote flash set-ups. I am hoping to put in a good display at the MTB world champs in September with both stills and video snippets.
VIDEO TESTS
The main test here was sound. I am using the JCV 3CCD HD camcorder because of its compact size, but the on board sound is none too crash hot. I’ve made a lead that goes from the 3.5mm stereo jack to 2 x XLR connectors. These are attached to RODE M3 9Volt Powered Microphones. I wanted external sound and to exaggerate the stereo affect by spacing the mics well apart.
The first example is with runners….
Then MTB’ers….the set-up is at the end of this one.
FLASH TESTS
I’ve still got quite a bit of work to do on this, but getting there. My main problem is the lighting and location. Full sun is not too good, full shade or heavily backlit are good, but you need to get a location of the course that has these conditions, and a descent spot.
The Dual flash is working well. Shot most of today at 1/1000 sec and f5.6. The PocketWizards work really well with the high speed sync. Hypersync is ok from 1/400 – 1/800, but over that it’s not all that good.
Heres a video of the last setup I tried….
Tags: camera, Canon, ETTL, fill, Flash, Mountain, Mountain Bike, MTB, photography, photos, pocketwizard, Ratio, remote, setup, ST-E2, strobe, test, wizard
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend end, I decided to drive to Blayney in western NSW to photograph some wind farms at night. It was going to be cold and the weather forecast said showers. It turned out much worse than that! The wind farms are at 1000m and were totally covered in low cloud. I got nothing, but cold and wet.
Everything worked well; my plans and location scouting on GoogleEarth were good, gear was good…..everything but the weather was on my side. Oh well….better luck next time.
Tags: australia, Australian, car, farm, images, Landscape, outdoor, photography, photos, rain, setup, wind
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
I was off shooting the DirtWorks 100 for cycle-photos.com. It was a good weekend away with the boys and some ambitious shooting set-ups with remote cameras and remote flashes. Results were varied, but generally great!!
First Location was shot with 70-200 and a remote flash. Flash was in a tree about 1M from the shoot spot so it was only running at 1/128th power and zoomed at 35mm. The result from this was Great!!!
The second shot in this location was from a wide lens placed low with a remote flash. The problems with this were focus and shooting above the 1/250th sync speed of the cameras. We wanted to shoot at 1/400th minimum, so there would be some shutter blockage here and there. Most of the problems were focus. I focussed on the track where the riders were, then switched to manual focus, but they all appeared back-focussed. Something to work on for next time I guess.
I think next time if we swap these around, so the long shot is from a remote camera location and the wide is from the human it might work better. Other problems with the 580s powering off I have fixed now (C-Fn-14=1). I’ll try to give this a go before we head out again somewhere.
Tags: 100, camera, DirtWorks, images, Mountain Bike, photos, remote, Sport, Video
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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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