Photos at Phillip Island

Yesterday I went to Phillip Island to photograph some cycling that was happening on the Grand Prix Circuit.  Here are a couple of my favourites.

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It wasn't a great day for taking photos and not sure that the ones I've chosen are that great.  I did take a couple of the weather.

A very dark cloud was heading our way and we thought for sure it was going to bring a massive amount of rain, luckily, it went right over and rained somewhere else.  Well that one did.

Then it would all break up and the sun would come out.  Such strange weather.

Taking My Time

I love reading other people's blogs and it frustrates me when they don't update them a lot. Now look at me, I did one post and that was it. Admittedly I am new to this, but I think the real reason is that I really want to always put photos with the posts. That means I have to go and search for them, or the ones I want to put up. So now I have to go and find some photos for you.

Here are two that I've taken with my new camera. I took them both around Christmas. They are perhaps a couple of my favourites so far. The first one is Jason Niblett at the Horsham Christmas Carnivals. I know there are many ways I could have made it better, or rather it could have been done better, but it is not like I was trying to get it, and it was one of those images where when you are going through everything you took, it takes your breath away and you wish you knew how you did it. I love it when that happens.

Perhaps the person, now all blurry, standing in front is a distraction, but I like the way it looks as if Jason is coming out of the fog and into focus. Interesting.

The next image I took at the Jayco Bay Cycling Classic, it was the last stage, stage 4 at Williamstown. The image is of David Pell. He won the stage, and this was taken a lap or so before he finished. He had a massive lead for a lot of the race. Again, I was trying something different. I have never done sports photography really. I took it up doing the races that my daughter did, and photographing her and the other kids that were from our club, Blackburn.

I have been taking photos for about 17 years now, and have read and researched heaps about it. My first slr camera was a Pentax K1000 and then a few years later I got a Nikon F90X, now I'm using a Nikon D300s and absolutely love it. The point of this part is that photographing sport is new to me, and my favourite setting for taking most photos is to have the camera on Aperture priority. A really nice guy in Horsham told me to put the camera on Shutter priority and set the shutter speed at 1/250, a sports setting. I did that and got the image of Jason.

However, I'm still stuck on my old setting, but am slowly changing my ways, so I did it for some in Williamstown and got this image.

I am learning and with experience and practice I know I can take photos just as well as the top photographers. I will just keep reading and researching to fine tune my craft. It is so nice to be back taking photos. I know one of my teachers from TAFE would have faint with shock if he knew I was taking photos again and calling myself a photographer.

First One

It has been suggested to me that starting my own blog could be good. I've recently got back into photography and am getting to do some pretty cool stuff, well take some pictures of some pretty cool people.

I also ride bike, love riding my bike. So does my daughter and husband. My daughter races as well and we both belong to Blackburn Cycling Club.

The photography has taken off and I seem to be always either taking photos or sorting photos. I've started a new website to get the images up, but it takes so long. My husband is a programmer and is working on programs for me to make it all happen faster, which will be great. Right now I have to do some manually, that it seems to take forever. I hope people will be patient with me and that my photos will be worth the wait. I thought I would put some photos in my first blog of some guys I was taking pictures of last weekend.

Last weekend was Amy's Ride, after the late Amy Gillett and I was down there to see my husband, Dave, off on the ride, I decided to hang around and take photos instead. Also participating were some well known Australian riders, Cadel Evans, Robbie McEwen and Rochelle Gilmore. Another person riding, who we don't really see riding, but more listen to was Phil Liggett.