This weekend I went out with the neighbor kids to photograph them doing the jumps and drops just down the road at Post Canyon.
I'm not very good at action photos and I'm even worse at action photos using a flash. Add to that my flash batteries dying and me not noticing for a while. I'm accepting lesson and tips.
This shot is not really sharp, but it's not too bad. I printed one of each rider and gave it to them. Later in the day, one of the kids fell short of the landing, bounced forward off his bike and broke his collar bone badly. The other kids have it on video, it's sort of funny until he starts screaming.
I'm sorry, i'm laughing my butt off on your last sentence. But hey, giving to the community is cool. The kids gotta love the pictures! Nice job. I only know the basics, fast shutterspeed equals higher iso bigger aperture to stop action, and you know that.
Nice action, Mark! This is one area I'd like to do more shooting, except I don't have f/2.8 IS lenses which is pretty much the standard. Flash is good for fill, mainly, and for that ISO 400 and up helps you capture the reflected light better.
That's all I know since I don't really shoot this much.
I feel for that kid, my neighbor broke his last year (pretty bad as well - took months to recover), and I broke mine when I was 12 but didn't know it was broken (but did know if hurt alot).
Don't know much about this photo style either. High ISO, large aperture and powerful flash on HSS seem the way to go, but I think ISO 100 at f2.8 is already getting you well above a flash sync speed in full daylight. I think you might need to up the flash output and tighten the aperture in this case, but I guess you'd just have to do some trial and error to find the right balance.
But I did have a coworker break his collar bone while we were skiing. He was trying to jump over a cable, but a ski got caught underneath. The awkward fall (which I saw) resulted in him landing with his ski pole against his collarbone. I'd never seen a person turn green, truly green, before this.
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4 repliesI'm not very good at action photos and I'm even worse at action photos using a flash. Add to that my flash batteries dying and me not noticing for a while. I'm accepting lesson and tips.
This shot is not really sharp, but it's not too bad. I printed one of each rider and gave it to them. Later in the day, one of the kids fell short of the landing, bounced forward off his bike and broke his collar bone badly. The other kids have it on video, it's sort of funny until he starts screaming.
That's all I know since I don't really shoot this much.
I feel for that kid, my neighbor broke his last year (pretty bad as well - took months to recover), and I broke mine when I was 12 but didn't know it was broken (but did know if hurt alot).
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But I did have a coworker break his collar bone while we were skiing. He was trying to jump over a cable, but a ski got caught underneath. The awkward fall (which I saw) resulted in him landing with his ski pole against his collarbone. I'd never seen a person turn green, truly green, before this.