Miscellaneous mountain biking shots

jimf

This is one of my favorites, taken of Dave Nash on the Tahoe Rim Trail. I love the intensity on his face and there's just enough blurring of the arms to show he was working hard. (Yes, I almost got taken out right after that shot. He was moving.)



I loved the sticks and log in the foreground on this next shot, but didn't quite capture the biker the way I wanted.



I just think this next one is ... pretty. I loved the way the browns and greys mixed on the tree trunk. Could have done with a polarizing filter, I think, but hey we were in the middle of nowhere on the Colorado Trail so you work with what you've got....



Here I was trying to get the majesty of the cliffs and, incidentally, show how rough a ride it was. I was looking for a little bit brighter mood, unfortunately, and the road looks a lot less rough than it was.

cmr164

jimf wrote:

I loved the sticks and log in the foreground on this next shot, but didn't quite capture the biker the way I wanted.

Jim;
I like the concept and understand that you didn't quite get what you wanted, but from a purely technical point of view wish you would expose an f-stop down. Here is your shot with a +10% saturation and a .7 Gamma:

jimf

cmr164 wrote:

Jim;
I like the concept and understand that you didn't quite get what you wanted, but from a purely technical point of view wish you would expose an f-stop down. Here is your shot with a +10% saturation and a .7 Gamma:

Hey, that's quite an improvement, thanks. The camera was on full-auto at the time, though even if I'd been looking for the overexposure I probably would have missed it; the little LCD just doesn't show detail well. And since we were riding a technical section at altitude, tiring everyone out fast, I didn't get another chance at it anyway.

I understand the gamma change, but what are you trying to accomplish with saturation? I tend not to muck with that unless I'm looking for surrealism.