Some Not-so-DH pics

Jon Bond said:

Held the Tufts Criterium this past saturday, so I got to try out the
new camera. Was playing around with it some, so some shots came out
decent, some came out... not so much so. Still experimenting!

I know I should have used a flash, but there were more than enough
crashes with me distracting racers in corners with a blinding flash.
I personally witnessed at least 10 crashes, and we sent 2 kids to the
hospital. We had 5 major crashes in the first race of the day,
USCF3/4/5!!!! Unfortunately I couldn't take crash pictures because I
was marshalling, so I had to run over and direct racers around, check
the downed riders, etc. etc. etc.

My personal fave is the USCF rider (ECV jersey, 2nd picture IIRC) -
he was going at least 20mph around this curve, I just got really damn
lucky on the timing!

http://www.pbase.com/jonbond/crit/

Jon

nice and clear Jon.. tell me about your camera settings. I am having real
trouble getting my focusing dialed in on my Canon, and I"m pretty sure it's
me and not the camera.

penny

Jon Bond said:

Held the Tufts Criterium this past saturday, so I got to try out the new
camera. Was playing around with it some, so some shots came out decent,
some came out... not so much so. Still experimenting!

I know I should have used a flash, but there were more than enough crashes
with me distracting racers in corners with a blinding flash. I personally
witnessed at least 10 crashes, and we sent 2 kids to the hospital. We had 5
major crashes in the first race of the day, USCF3/4/5!!!! Unfortunately I
couldn't take crash pictures because I was marshalling, so I had to run over
and direct racers around, check the downed riders, etc. etc. etc.

My personal fave is the USCF rider (ECV jersey, 2nd picture IIRC) - he was
going at least 20mph around this curve, I just got really damn lucky on the
timing!

http://www.pbase.com/jonbond/crit/

Jon

God I loved racing crits! (Deal with it).
http://www.pbase.com/image/27621377 Check out the pedal about to scrape.
Do you think the guy openning the gap behind him knows something? I
knew I got good acceleration out of a corner when I'd stand up and my
inside pedal would scrape two or three times as I drove out. Whee!
Nice pics Jon.

Shawn

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Held the Tufts Criterium this past saturday, so I got to try out the new
camera. Was playing around with it some, so some shots came out decent,
some came out... not so much so. Still experimenting!

I know I should have used a flash, but there were more than enough crashes
with me distracting racers in corners with a blinding flash. I personally
witnessed at least 10 crashes, and we sent 2 kids to the hospital. We had 5
major crashes in the first race of the day, USCF3/4/5!!!! Unfortunately I
couldn't take crash pictures because I was marshalling, so I had to run over
and direct racers around, check the downed riders, etc. etc. etc.

My personal fave is the USCF rider (ECV jersey, 2nd picture IIRC) - he was
going at least 20mph around this curve, I just got really damn lucky on the
timing!

http://www.pbase.com/jonbond/crit/

Jon

Road bikes give me the creeps. They just look so spindly and
dangerous. Some sharp pics .

cheers

G

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Jon Bond said:

Held the Tufts Criterium this past saturday, so I got to try out the new
camera. Was playing around with it some, so some shots came out decent,
some came out... not so much so. Still experimenting!

I know I should have used a flash, but there were more than enough

crashes

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with me distracting racers in corners with a blinding flash. I

personally

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witnessed at least 10 crashes, and we sent 2 kids to the hospital. We

had 5

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major crashes in the first race of the day, USCF3/4/5!!!! Unfortunately

I

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couldn't take crash pictures because I was marshalling, so I had to run

over

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and direct racers around, check the downed riders, etc. etc. etc.

My personal fave is the USCF rider (ECV jersey, 2nd picture IIRC) - he

was

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going at least 20mph around this curve, I just got really damn lucky on

the

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timing!

http://www.pbase.com/jonbond/crit/

Jon

God I loved racing crits! (Deal with it).
http://www.pbase.com/image/27621377 Check out the pedal about to scrape.
Do you think the guy openning the gap behind him knows something? I
knew I got good acceleration out of a corner when I'd stand up and my
inside pedal would scrape two or three times as I drove out. Whee!
Nice pics Jon.

Shawn

SO many pedals scrape hard on this course. Its the worst sound to hear,
too - because 98% of the time its nothing, but some of the really nasty
crashes start with that sound.

He was actually fine, that corner if you're good you can actually pedal all
the way through with minimal scraping. Thats the second corner of a
chicane, after a slight uphill between the two. The gap opened up because
that guy was a beast. I think he ended up winning. My teammate Abe is the
guy right behind him.

Jon

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Jon Bond said:

Held the Tufts Criterium this past saturday, so I got to try out the
new camera. Was playing around with it some, so some shots came out
decent, some came out... not so much so. Still experimenting!

I know I should have used a flash, but there were more than enough
crashes with me distracting racers in corners with a blinding flash.
I personally witnessed at least 10 crashes, and we sent 2 kids to the
hospital. We had 5 major crashes in the first race of the day,
USCF3/4/5!!!! Unfortunately I couldn't take crash pictures because I
was marshalling, so I had to run over and direct racers around, check
the downed riders, etc. etc. etc.

My personal fave is the USCF rider (ECV jersey, 2nd picture IIRC) -
he was going at least 20mph around this curve, I just got really damn
lucky on the timing!

http://www.pbase.com/jonbond/crit/

Jon

nice and clear Jon.. tell me about your camera settings. I am having real
trouble getting my focusing dialed in on my Canon, and I"m pretty sure

it's

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me and not the camera.

penny

I got lazy most of the day and just used the "sports mode". I think this
might do continual autofocusing. It also seemed to keep the f-stop pretty
low, which (should) keep the depth of field pretty short. I put it on
high-speed continuous mode, (about 4fps I think), then just followed the
riders with my eye on the viewfinder and tried to keep them in frame. They
went by so fast I mostly just turned at what I thought would be the right
speed.... and occasionally got lucky. I definitely got a bunch of "Oh
look, there's half a wheel!" shots.

I played around with prefocussing sometimes too - focussed just about where
I thought their front wheel would be on the ground, then pulled the camera
up from that spot and shot. Trick is guessing how far away the subject is
going to be! I think thats how I took the ECV one. It also helps you take
photos exactly when you want to - the Canon S50 has like a .01 second lag
time if its prefocussed, so it's almost instant.

Jon

Penny says:

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I am having real
trouble getting my focusing dialed in on my Canon, and I"m pretty sure it's
me and not the camera.

Rule No. 1, Penny - it's ALWAYS the camera. Until you figure it out, that is,
then you can just say it was "artisitic" ;-)

Steve

Jon Bond said:

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nice and clear Jon.. tell me about your camera settings. I am having
real trouble getting my focusing dialed in on my Canon, and I"m
pretty sure it's me and not the camera.

penny

I got lazy most of the day and just used the "sports mode". I think
this might do continual autofocusing. It also seemed to keep the
f-stop pretty low, which (should) keep the depth of field pretty
short. I put it on high-speed continuous mode, (about 4fps I think),
then just followed the riders with my eye on the viewfinder and tried
to keep them in frame. They went by so fast I mostly just turned at
what I thought would be the right speed.... and occasionally got
lucky. I definitely got a bunch of "Oh look, there's half a wheel!"
shots.

I played around with prefocussing sometimes too - focussed just about
where I thought their front wheel would be on the ground, then pulled
the camera up from that spot and shot. Trick is guessing how far
away the subject is going to be! I think thats how I took the ECV
one. It also helps you take photos exactly when you want to - the
Canon S50 has like a .01 second lag time if its prefocussed, so it's
almost instant.

Jon

and then you have to account for shutter lag! I've found my continuous is
somewhat slow ( 2.2). I have to remember that at NORBA last year I took a
[censored] load of pics, and did get some good ones. So I'll keep messing with
it.

p.

gazzer said:

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Held the Tufts Criterium this past saturday, so I got to try out the new
camera. Was playing around with it some, so some shots came out decent,
some came out... not so much so. Still experimenting!

I know I should have used a flash, but there were more than enough crashes
with me distracting racers in corners with a blinding flash. I personally
witnessed at least 10 crashes, and we sent 2 kids to the hospital. We had 5
major crashes in the first race of the day, USCF3/4/5!!!! Unfortunately I
couldn't take crash pictures because I was marshalling, so I had to run over
and direct racers around, check the downed riders, etc. etc. etc.

My personal fave is the USCF rider (ECV jersey, 2nd picture IIRC) - he was
going at least 20mph around this curve, I just got really damn lucky on the
timing!

http://www.pbase.com/jonbond/crit/

Jon

Road bikes give me the creeps. They just look so spindly and
dangerous. Some sharp pics .

cheers

G

Sold my road bike last year and haven't looked back. If I want that type
of activity I'll just go for a run, it's a lot cheaper and safer.

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Held the Tufts Criterium this past saturday, so I got to try out the new
camera. Was playing around with it some, so some shots came out decent,
some came out... not so much so. Still experimenting!

Here in Florida, we don't need no stinking full-length tights and
armwarmers, even in February!

Pics here:
http://grove.ufl.edu/~cycling/images/spring04downtown/

As fate would have it, my digital camera died last night, lol.

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

ZeeExSixAre said:

Here in Florida, we don't need no stinking full-length tights and
armwarmers, even in February!

Pics here:
http://grove.ufl.edu/~cycling/images/spring04downtown/

Umm, I'd say that more than half of the riders have arm warmers or long
sleeves; maybe 20% knee or leg warmers.

Bill "but perhaps they aren't stinking?" S.

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Umm, I'd say that more than half of the riders have arm warmers or long
sleeves; maybe 20% knee or leg warmers.

That's because they're the dumb riders. I was speaking of the smart ones 😉

In all seriousness, the morning race was cold, then the blazing sun came out
and it went from absolute zero to the surface of the sun in like a
femtosecond. Well actually, I just forgot to look at the pictures before
posting.

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Phil, Squid-in-Training