FBD Insurance Cycle Race - Galway

vulcan57

A few pictures of the FBD Insurance Cycle race that went through Galway today.

The leaders.





The the pack.






The Stagglers.




Thanks for looking.

vulcan57

vulcan57 wrote: »

What's the point? Sure they'll never beat the Garda.


Nice pictures, though. Particularly fond of the fourth shot. Love the sense of speed and the three guys side-by-side, but slightly ahead of each other.:)

Great work.

the_tractor

Nice ones. I like the 'panning' shots, of the cyclists side on.

What did you shoot with? Body, lens, shutter speed etc?

ant_moore123

Deleted User wrote: »

What's the point? Sure they'll never beat the Garda.

That made me chuckle

vulcan57

the_tractor wrote: »

What did you shoot with? Body, lens, shutter speed etc?

Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT (350D), Cannon 100-400mm L IS lens at about 170mm, F7.1, Shutter speed at 1/500 ISO 200 for most of them. The side on shots were at 1/250 with focal length of 100mm.

dinneenp

A few (from roundabout by N17 road).
You really do only get one chance, they're 'gone in (less than) 60 seconds'
1.

2.


3.
A little blurred


4.

the_tractor

dinneenp wrote: »

A few (from roundabout by N17 road).
You really do only get one chance, they're 'gone in (less than) 60 seconds'

Nice shots, which lens did you use in the end?

dinneenp

Used the 55-300, a few shots when they passed were too close. It was handy for them coming up the hill. (btw I'm getting the 18-250 Tamron)
I stood in the roundabout, wasn't the best position. But with some cropping etc I got some I'm happy with.
a few aren't very sharp though. It's fun though to go along and scope out spots and getting ready, taking test shots etc.
My panning were at 1/30th, too slow.
Next time I'd try to get somewhere with a simple background (hedges etc).
It'd be great if they were doing a few circuits and you could try out a lot of styles etc.

Here's a few more:

the_tractor

dinneenp wrote: »

That one is a great panning shot.

kensutz

the_tractor wrote: »

That one is a great panning shot.

The only thing that detracts from the image is that there's another cyclist with chopped off limbs and a bike cropped in half too. Images should be clear and not contain any loose limbs etc.

dinneenp

kensutz wrote: »

The only thing that detracts from the image is that there's another cyclist with chopped off limbs and a big cropped in half too. Images should be clear and not contain any loose limbs etc.

I know but there was a police car behind him so it had to go.
The first few pictures I'm happy with, the latter few have issues- slight blur, chopped people etc. but I said I'll throw them up anyway.

vulcan57

Like that first one in your second set Dinneenp, great sense of distance as they string out down the road.

kelly1

Nice pan on #4 Vulcan.