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Title: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Fixedwheelnut on 22 September, 2008, 11:23:29 pm: What it says on the tin, I caught the sprint finish on the line at Herne Hill yesterday and looking at it on the camera straight away I thought that one pic was worth coming for.
Already over 300 views in 24 hours on my Flickr page.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3272/2875539923_4357eb956c.jpg?v=0) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fixedwheelnut/2875539923/)
Camera = Canon Powershot A570 is
Exposure:    0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture:    f/5
Focal Length:    5.8 mm
ISO Speed:    80

Come on post them up :)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: hatler on 22 September, 2008, 11:25:37 pm: In deepest Kent on TdF day last year.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2103/2187137536_04eedd3b47.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: David Martin on 22 September, 2008, 11:36:17 pm: Ignoring the racing ones (of which it would be hard to chose a best), I'll put up this one as a contender.
Nikon coolpix 2000 at 30mph down Glencarse from Kinnoull Hill.

(http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/small_IMG_2084.JPG)

or this one at a more sedate pace

(http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/small_IMG_2088.JPG)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Fixedwheelnut on 22 September, 2008, 11:38:44 pm: Great pic
That gets top marks just for having the balls to take it on the move ;D

I personally know two people that have broken their collar bones trying to take pictures on the move.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: David Martin on 22 September, 2008, 11:40:33 pm: Quote from: Fixedwheelnut on 22 September, 2008, 11:38:44 pm
Great pic
That gets top marks just for having the balls to take it on the move ;D

I personally know two people that have broken their collar bones trying to take pictures on the move.

On the move is easy. You just need to have a model saying 'left', 'up' etc.. And to concentrate on the important thing (wheels between you and the tarmac).

I might trawl through the racing ones - there are a few nice ones in there.

..d
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: LEE on 23 September, 2008, 09:20:31 am: (http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/freddered/Various/ElBike.jpg?t=1222157978)

My daughter, in France.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: David Martin on 23 September, 2008, 11:03:56 am: Quote from: LEE on 23 September, 2008, 09:20:31 am
(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/freddered/Various/ElBike.jpg?t=1222157978)

My daughter, in France.

c'est bon!
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Frenchie on 23 September, 2008, 11:37:23 am: Un Matisse peut-etre?
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: αdαmsκι on 23 September, 2008, 11:38:37 am: That photo ^^ certainly resembles a painting more than a photography. I like.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: andygates on 23 September, 2008, 11:58:11 am: This is one of my faves from the weekend - about 40 miles into a 56-mile triathlon bike leg, with the run to go...

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2878903506_60cceef5bf.jpg) (http://flickr.com/photos/andygates/2878903506/in/set-72157607425050188/)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Really Ancien on 23 September, 2008, 12:45:19 pm: I always quite liked this one, taken on Bryan Chapman 2007. Subjects too well known for it to be an Arrivee cover.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/2882189518_2484331e01.jpg?v=0)

Damon.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: David Martin on 23 September, 2008, 01:05:57 pm: I didn't take this one, but I did direct the photographer through almost ever single step (including getting a set of steps for him to stand on).

That is me, on the tandem, with my youngest.

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/346959096_32568e8a9a_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: peterh on 23 September, 2008, 01:50:26 pm: I took loads at the Smithfield Nocturne this year, but I like the ghosting effects in this one

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2560194309_65e4fc0fdb.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Deano on 23 September, 2008, 03:12:36 pm: Taken on the road to the Crask Inn:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3131/2879871801_dd9143b6c0_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: LEE on 23 September, 2008, 03:28:34 pm: Quote from: adamski on 23 September, 2008, 11:38:37 am
That photo ^^ certainly resembles a painting more than a photography. I like.

'Paint Daubs' artistic effect in Adobe Photoshop.

Original

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/freddered/Various/ElBikeorig.jpg?t=1222180058)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Zipperhead on 23 September, 2008, 07:23:00 pm: I don't know whether it's my best, but I do like this one

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/grahamglen0/SNkzjKeLUZI/AAAAAAAAA-U/Jf8wmIHzBuY/s512/DSC_4449.JPG)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: gonzo on 23 September, 2008, 07:29:08 pm: (http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v155/208/68/204504692/n204504692_32686352_2735.jpg)

Monkey with a ~~typewriter~~ camera syndrome I'm afraid. No idea on the make of camera let alone settings! This is the top UK crosser racing in my club cross promotion on my farm last year.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: токамак on 23 September, 2008, 07:51:24 pm: I took this one of bobb getting to the top of Exmoor in 2007. Camera was a bog standard FujiFilm compact digital.
(http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh288/whackson/Touring/2007/DSCF0655.jpg)

My favorite one of me is this one, which my dad took at Herne Hill this summer. Just to put it in context - I was in a two and a half lap handicap race, and had started right from the back. This photo is just 3/4 of a lap in. The lady to my left was a total liability - she decided to veer heavily to her right as I was about to go past, which is why I had to go so wide! I came fourth. Great fun though.
(http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh288/whackson/Herne%20Hill/dCIMG1817.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: velocipede on 24 September, 2008, 10:51:01 pm: Another Smithfield Nocturne Ghost, obviously traveling around the speed of light at this point!
(http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj138/sjmilroy/smithfieldblur.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: David Martin on 24 September, 2008, 11:45:13 pm: Well if it is ghosts you want, you need to head south of the river..

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2320/2034800129_30bc2c77e0_b.jpg)

I do like this one to sum up riding at night in London..

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2129/2035685772_a34297b30f_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Jaded on 25 September, 2008, 01:16:04 am: Some Wowbaggers giving homage to the LBS.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/praying_wowbaggers.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: alan on 25 September, 2008, 06:39:21 am: Have the Wowbaggers relocated to mid-Wales?
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: LEE on 25 September, 2008, 01:26:29 pm: Quote from: Jaded on 25 September, 2008, 01:16:04 am
Some Wowbaggers giving homage to the LBS.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/praying_wowbaggers.jpg)

Is this an 'OK Corral' Re-enactment ?
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: LEE on 25 September, 2008, 01:28:21 pm: moments later

(http://www.dkimages.com/discover/DKIMAGES/Discover/previews/933/50486137.JPG)

(The good guys wear white hats I hear)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Regulator on 26 September, 2008, 02:14:13 pm: Quote from: Jaded on 25 September, 2008, 01:16:04 am
Some Wowbaggers giving homage to the LBS.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/praying_wowbaggers.jpg)

I thinking they're pondering how many new bikes they can strap to the back of the tandem... ;D
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: alan on 26 September, 2008, 04:20:17 pm: I know exactly what they were pondering at the time :)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: LEE on 26 September, 2008, 05:50:01 pm: I think this is brilliant (technically and compositionally, OK a 2 degree rotate may not go amiss or is it my imagination?) and would make a great cycling magazine cover.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2320/2034800129_30bc2c77e0_b.jpg)

I've seen this a lot (on this and that other forum) but it's still superb. I think a good cycling photo should at least try and convey the joy of riding a bike and this one does just that. Technically good as well (although you were just damn lucky with Charlotte's hair and Shades I'm afraid).

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/grahamglen0/SNkzjKeLUZI/AAAAAAAAA-U/Jf8wmIHzBuY/s512/DSC_4449.JPG)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: hellymedic on 26 September, 2008, 06:06:43 pm: Quote from: Regulator on 26 September, 2008, 02:14:13 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 25 September, 2008, 01:16:04 am
Some Wowbaggers giving homage to the LBS.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/praying_wowbaggers.jpg)

I thinking they're pondering how many new bikes they can strap to the back of the tandem... ;D

They remind me of that Start-Rite shoe advert from the '60s...
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Aidan on 04 October, 2008, 10:12:35 am: These are my two favourites

Beverley town centre racing

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/monstadog/Picture0011.jpg)

Cyclists on the Wolds
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/monstadog/DSC00754.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 04 October, 2008, 10:20:03 am: Those are both superb, Aidan :)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Pneumant on 04 October, 2008, 04:34:41 pm: Ian Stannard cresting Streatley Hill on this year's T.O.B.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2911563183_7d9ab083f5.jpg?v=0)

and the magnificent north approach of the Galibier, taken in early June this year, about a week after the pass opened, cyclist unknown.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2913595929_b5e4c9d442.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 05 October, 2008, 12:17:51 pm: Quote from: TOKaMaK on 23 September, 2008, 07:51:24 pm
I took this one of bobb getting to the top of Exmoor in 2007. Camera was a bog standard FujiFilm compact digital.
(http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh288/whackson/Touring/2007/DSCF0655.jpg)g]

One thing I do like about Fuji is that how they reproduce colours. That photo shows it well.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Arthur on 06 October, 2008, 08:09:26 am: From this year's Cheam & Morden Hilly 50.

A bright, crisp Winters morning and lots of scenery - cycling just doesn't get better than this.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/2918185876_ded3a36a57_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Frenchie on 06 October, 2008, 08:14:04 am: Aidan, Arthur,

Great shots!
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: LEE on 06 October, 2008, 11:43:58 am: Quote from: Arthur on 06 October, 2008, 08:09:26 am
From this year's Cheam & Morden Hilly 50.

A bright, crisp Winters morning and lots of scenery - cycling just doesn't get better than this.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/2918185876_ded3a36a57_o.jpg)

The oldest excuse in the book, "I'm just going to stop here and take a photo". ;D

Great photo though, I think I can actually hear the creaking of handlebars and cranks (or is it knees?).
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: David Martin on 12 October, 2008, 02:39:59 pm: Quote from: Arthur on 06 October, 2008, 08:09:26 am
From this year's Cheam & Morden Hilly 50.

A bright, crisp Winters morning and lots of scenery - cycling just doesn't get better than this.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/2918185876_ded3a36a57_o.jpg)

Is that just a short step away from Friday Street - a bit of road that leaves the A25, drops sharply down and then rises again up that cutting?

(a long time sice I have been there.)

..d
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: JT on 12 October, 2008, 03:03:44 pm: That sounds about right, David.

I've almost thrown-up at the top of there both times I've done it.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: David Martin on 12 October, 2008, 03:12:36 pm: Quote from: JT on 12 October, 2008, 03:03:44 pm
That sounds about right, David.

I've almost thrown-up at the top of there both times I've done it.

*looks at the map* Sheephouse Lane, Wootton TQ130466

We used to do that on a straight block - 42-18 as our lowest gear. My knees still haven't forgiven me.

..d
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: zzpza on 22 October, 2008, 11:29:40 pm: i don't have any actions shots, but this is my favourite cycling related photo.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3111/2634786300_e370761ed6.jpg)

jules.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Fixedwheelnut on 08 February, 2009, 04:07:55 pm: A couple of favourites from the 'Hell of the Ashdown' last week.

These were taken with my Canon AE-1 35mm SLR 70-210mm zoom lense mostly on f5.6 with auto shutter speed.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3364/3261758220_f2b3b548e1.jpg?v=0) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fixedwheelnut/3261758220/)

Click for larger version
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3487/3260931229_682874ebe4.jpg?v=0) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fixedwheelnut/3260931229/sizes/l/in/photostream/)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Domestique on 08 February, 2009, 05:37:21 pm: Smithfield Nocturn 2007

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/3263940456_c7a0db0653.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Ivo on 16 February, 2009, 10:24:09 pm: Cyclecross in Heerlen on saturday:

(http://fotoalbum.dds.nl/ivo_m/cyclocrossheerlen2009/large/IMGP0830.jpg)

(http://fotoalbum.dds.nl/ivo_m/cyclocrossheerlen2009/large/IMGP1279.jpg)

(http://fotoalbum.dds.nl/ivo_m/cyclocrossheerlen2009/large/IMGP1397.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Fixedwheelnut on 16 February, 2009, 10:30:07 pm: I like the lighting on that first one Ivo :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: clarion on 17 February, 2009, 10:14:22 am: Brilliantly evocative photos, Ivo. You must have been right in the action to get them.

The first one is truly great IMO. Her expression speaks for itself.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Ivo on 17 February, 2009, 03:35:51 pm: Quote from: clarion on 17 February, 2009, 10:14:22 am
Brilliantly evocative photos, Ivo. You must have been right in the action to get them.

The first one is truly great IMO. Her expression speaks for itself.

She was leading with only a few seconds so riding very concentrated. I was indeed right in the action. I had a photographer's accreditation so I could stand in lot's of places where the crowd couldn't. Of course this sometimes meant jumping away in the last second. The 2nd picture was taken with a fisheye lens pre-focussed to 60cm.

Some extra ones:

(http://fotoalbum.dds.nl/ivo_m/cyclocrossheerlen2009/large/IMGP0080.jpg)

(http://fotoalbum.dds.nl/ivo_m/cyclocrossheerlen2009/large/IMGP0599.jpg)

(http://fotoalbum.dds.nl/ivo_m/cyclocrossheerlen2009/large/IMGP0628.jpg)

(http://fotoalbum.dds.nl/ivo_m/cyclocrossheerlen2009/large/IMGP1559.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: clarion on 17 February, 2009, 04:48:33 pm: I was going to comment on getting such a close up wide angle shot, but you covered it.

The second shot in this group shows someone in Clarion colours :o

Though not Clarion CC ;D
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Ivo on 17 February, 2009, 07:59:27 pm: Quote from: clarion on 17 February, 2009, 04:48:33 pm
The second shot in this group shows someone in Clarion colours :o

Though not Clarion CC ;D

That was Lana Verberne
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: bottlemasher on 22 February, 2009, 08:44:16 pm: This one is my favorite
taken at the Darley Moor circuit
Bhpc race meeting
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1195/729654432_d69ad20d42.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: clarion on 22 February, 2009, 09:56:47 pm: Some old folk having a nice sit down? ;D
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: tonycollinet on 22 February, 2009, 10:39:18 pm: Quote from: Ivo on 16 February, 2009, 10:24:09 pm
Cyclecross in Heerlen on saturday:

(http://fotoalbum.dds.nl/ivo_m/cyclocrossheerlen2009/large/IMGP1397.jpg)

First one is (as previously pointed out) excellent. This one is also very good - but (IMO) significantly improved if you crop out the spectators on the right. With them the eye is distracted. Without them, attention is focussed on the cyclist, especially his expression.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: arallsopp on 16 March, 2009, 11:29:15 am: I know it says 'best' but I can't choose between these four, two from a bent, two from the upright:

The finishing line of last summer's tour of Normandy (chasing a truck off the Newhaven ferry):
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3466/3358973397_6c3c36d082_o.jpg)

Chasing down a buddy on the Avenue Verte:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3664/3359792324_7782840294_o.jpg)

Resting up when the sunset got too beautiful to ride through.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3422/3359792374_e8e99b55a2_o.jpg)

End of a tour from Marble Arch to Arc de Triomphe:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3588/3359792174_7a304d0d61_o.jpg)

Of the lot, the two from the upright are the risky shots. The first, because it entailed hanging way low on the bars and trying to steer through the viewfinder. The second because that day was the final 118 miles of the route, we'd been lost almost all of it, I'm on a sugar crash, exhausted, in at least 3 lanes of traffic, riding one handed, over cobbles, in fading light. I'm holding the camera with the wrong hand, and trying to avoid being killed by all manner of things. :)

The uprights were taken with a Minolta dSLR which has become entirely too precious to take on latter rides. The bents used a waterproof 10mpx point and shoot with a very handy interval shot mode.

I like the last image because it reminds me of a friendship, the experience, and how great it felt to cross that roundabout and get out of the saddle. If you've ever ridden a lightweight rigid framed bike with skinny 120psi tyres over cobbles at speed, you'll know this is exactly how it looks.

-Edited to use Flickr instead of awardspace as images weren't working. :)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: alan on 16 March, 2009, 11:33:41 am: No pics to be seen unfortunately arallsopp :(
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: arallsopp on 16 March, 2009, 11:47:04 am: Quote from: alan on 16 March, 2009, 11:33:41 am
No pics to be seen unfortunately arallsopp :(

Darn. Free hosting at awardspace may not be all I'd hoped for. OK. Edited post to use Flickr. If it doesn't work now, I am simply an idiot. :)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: clarion on 16 March, 2009, 12:29:52 pm: All good photos. The sunset is just magical. I think you posted the wrong link for the fourth pic.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: arallsopp on 16 March, 2009, 01:41:47 pm: Quote from: clarion on 16 March, 2009, 12:29:52 pm
I think you posted the wrong link for the fourth pic.

Balls. I did too. That proves it. I am infact an idiot.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: fuzzy on 16 March, 2009, 05:39:04 pm: Image 4 is brilliant! It does everything to convey the words you have used to describe it.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: arallsopp on 16 March, 2009, 06:18:56 pm: Thank you Fuzzy.

You can see the original (albeit suffering lousy compression) in context here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhKD8At5640&feature=channel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhKD8At5640&feature=channel_page).

[Warning. Contains noise]
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: vermooten on 31 July, 2009, 01:55:37 am: Unknown cyclist at the top of Col du Glandon, July 2008:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/2258223245_90250e9683.jpg)

Hottie pro in the women's Tour of Flanders waving at me (yeah I rock), Oudenaarde April, 2008:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/2396737630_41a54f6561.jpg)

Me riding up Hardknott Pass, May 2007:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2043/2131152649_212fc80fc2_o.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2196/2131152651_bd4b14ede6_o.jpg)

My photos aren't worth the muck on the shoes of the others in this thread but here they are anyway.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Valiant on 31 July, 2009, 06:07:14 am: Quote from: David Martin on 24 September, 2008, 11:45:13 pm
Well if it is ghosts you want, you need to head south of the river..

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2320/2034800129_30bc2c77e0_b.jpg)

That's me mate Dave, any chance I could get a high version for a desktop bg?
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: David Martin on 08 August, 2009, 04:01:10 pm: Going a bit strobist on this one as it is into the sun. Then the remote triggers went dolally so there had to be some frantic reorganisation.
The return leg had them riding into the sun so the pics were much flatter.

(http://www.aaaphoto.co.uk/viewimage.php?src=30/images/1)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Mike r on 08 August, 2009, 04:23:10 pm: Riding at 100% over the longest climb in the Wicklow 200 ride in Ireland. I really had to push, and no, I'm not smiling :)
(http://www.dolmencc.com/photogallery/dolmen/db_mike1.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: oliverb on 02 October, 2009, 03:44:57 pm: (http://home2.btconnect.com/brettoliver/downhill.jpg)

Downhill through the woods.
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Jaded on 02 October, 2009, 03:57:11 pm: Brilliant, oliver!
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Gaseous Clay on 02 October, 2009, 04:04:00 pm: That's a cracker :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Riggers on 02 October, 2009, 04:12:57 pm: That's a photoshop :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: mike on 02 October, 2009, 04:23:20 pm: makes me feel a little bit sick, but great photo!
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Fixedwheelnut on 02 October, 2009, 08:26:51 pm: Ditto, that is a cracking shot :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: LEE on 02 October, 2009, 08:37:47 pm: I know it's not strictly a cycling photo and the quality is a bit low (my phone-cam) but I like it because it shows the sort of beautiful things you see when out on your bike (and gives a clue into just how wet I got about 10 minutes later)

About a mile from Stonehenge
(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/freddered/ride%20photos/sunsetdarksky-1.jpg?t=1254512110)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: GruB on 02 October, 2009, 08:54:53 pm: Quote from: oliverb on 02 October, 2009, 03:44:57 pm
(http://home2.btconnect.com/brettoliver/downhill.jpg)

Downhill through the woods.

Apologies if you have shown or covered this elsewhere, but what is your setup please?
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: oliverb on 02 October, 2009, 11:26:17 pm: GaryC was right it was done in photoshop. I used a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle on a Canon EOS30d on my stationary bike in the woods. I took the shot with one hand while holding the bike with the other. I copied and flippped my hand in photoshop on the bar to make it look like I hand both hands on the bars.

I then cut out the bike and added a zoom effect on the background before putting the bike back with a bit of vertical blur to the bike itself.

Hope thats not too dissapointing. :)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Fixedwheelnut on 03 October, 2009, 12:39:53 am: Quote from: oliverb on 02 October, 2009, 11:26:17 pm
GaryC was right it was done in photoshop. I used a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle on a Canon EOS30d on my stationary bike in the woods. I took the shot with one hand while holding the bike with the other. I copied and flippped my hand in photoshop on the bar to make it look like I hand both hands on the bars.

I then cut out the bike and added a zoom effect on the background before putting the bike back with a bit of vertical blur to the bike itself.

Hope thats not too dissapointing. :)

"Burn the witch, burn the witch" ;D

Excellent processing then :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: oliverb on 03 October, 2009, 05:59:08 am: Here's a real one this time. Taken down the South Coast in Sussex at sunrise.
(http://home2.btconnect.com/brettoliver/bike.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: GruB on 03 October, 2009, 09:44:09 am: Quote from: oliverb on 02 October, 2009, 11:26:17 pm
GaryC was right it was done in photoshop. I used a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle on a Canon EOS30d on my stationary bike in the woods. I took the shot with one hand while holding the bike with the other. I copied and flippped my hand in photoshop on the bar to make it look like I hand both hands on the bars.

I then cut out the bike and added a zoom effect on the background before putting the bike back with a bit of vertical blur to the bike itself.

Hope thats not too dissapointing. :)

That was part of the reason I asked as I recognised the 'effect' from photoshop ;D
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: Gaseous Clay on 03 October, 2009, 02:28:20 pm: Quote from: oliverb on 02 October, 2009, 11:26:17 pm
GaryC was right it was done in photoshop. I used a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle on a Canon EOS30d on my stationary bike in the woods. I took the shot with one hand while holding the bike with the other. I copied and flippped my hand in photoshop on the bar to make it look like I hand both hands on the bars.

I then cut out the bike and added a zoom effect on the background before putting the bike back with a bit of vertical blur to the bike itself.

Hope thats not too dissapointing. :)

I was taken in by it i'm afraid, it was Riggers who saw through the deceit - i still like it though :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 October, 2009, 08:50:51 pm: Quote from: oliverb on 03 October, 2009, 05:59:08 am
Here's a real one this time. Taken down the South Coast in Sussex at sunrise.

The black border makes me think of one of those Despair, Inc. demotivational posters.

(http://home2.btconnect.com/brettoliver/bike.jpg)

INEVITABILITY

You knew you shouldn't have trusted that NCN sign, didn't you?
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: SpaceBadger on 03 October, 2009, 11:09:54 pm: "One for the album"

(Taken on the Champs Elysees in July 2006 immediately after the final stage of that year's Tour de France)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3437/3978421018_1dee148099_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: loafer on 04 October, 2009, 03:59:34 pm: a few from stage 17 tdf that we got to see on tour of the alps this year
(http://i517.photobucket.com/albums/u333/lonecyclist/bike%20trip%20-alps/IMG_3334.jpg)
(http://i517.photobucket.com/albums/u333/lonecyclist/bike%20trip%20-alps/IMG_3345.jpg)
(http://i517.photobucket.com/albums/u333/lonecyclist/bike%20trip%20-alps/IMG_3399.jpg)
(http://i517.photobucket.com/albums/u333/lonecyclist/bike%20trip%20-alps/IMG_3420.jpg)
(http://i517.photobucket.com/albums/u333/lonecyclist/bike%20trip%20-alps/IMG_3444.jpg)
Title: Re: Your best cycling photo
Post by: nuttycyclist on 05 October, 2009, 10:50:56 pm: Quote from: oliverb on 02 October, 2009, 11:26:17 pm
GaryC was right it was done in photoshop. I used a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle on a Canon EOS30d on my stationary bike in the woods. I took the shot with one hand while holding the bike with the other. I copied and flippped my hand in photoshop on the bar to make it look like I hand both hands on the bars.

I then cut out the bike and added a zoom effect on the background before putting the bike back with a bit of vertical blur to the bike itself.

Hope thats not too dissapointing. :)

Not disappointing at all. Set as desktop background :thumbsup: