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I prefer the crop that Joost Leijte suggested.

Nice pic Ger. Great use of DOF.

I don't beleive he wanted to do that!

Nice pic. Well timed, composed and lit. Well done.

Just looks a little under exposed to me. I'd rather see some of the highlights burn out, and more details in the shadows.

I'm guessing, but it looks like you've added more speed blur to the ground above the rider's head. I don't think that the image needed it. Do you still have the original?

Great composition. Works really well.

Lovely. A great sense of speed.

The camera was mounted via a monopod, Super Clamps, Magic Arms and sucker cups to the car. The camera was upside down with a flashgun mounted on the hotshoe. Another flash (Lumedyne) was then also mounted on the car to illuminate the rider's back. All this was then triggered remotely by me, while driving the car as well! Ssshhh... Don't tell health and safety. We went round a very quiet roundabout for a few laps at a time, changing set ups until we were happy. All shot on a 14mm lens, so you can understand just how close the rider is!

Wow David, you made caravanning look interesting! Great shot!

I was shooting at 1/400th of a second. I wanted it to have some movement, but not too much. By the same token, I wanted the bike to be frozen. A really fast shutter speed just shows up all the tyre tread. It's fine if your shooting a bike that is running slicks, but on road tyres, there's nothing worse than seeing all the tread.

Excellent panning technique!

Yeah... I know what you mean. I ummed and aaaghed a lot about the sign, but decided to leave it in, as it kinda makes you realise just what is going on. Without the sign, it wasn't quite as obvious.

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A little background to this picture... We were looking to get a cover shot for the October

2007 edition of RiDE magazine, showing a ZX9 just lifting the front wheel out of a corner.

We had done many passes, when a car drove past, spilling diesel as it went. Unfortunatley,

the rear tyre collected some of the diesel, and decided to let go, just as my test rider was

lifting the front wheel. This made the back step out and look as dramatic as you can see

here. I must admit though, when things go wrong on shoots, I usually lie still and let the

rider make the decision of how to avoid me. This time, after firing this one frame, I rolled

out of the way in case the worst happened. It didn't. The rider managed to save it and

stayed on, at which point we decided to call it a day!

A lovely pan, Ger. Great technique.

It was shot at 250th of a second , but still has plenty of movement because the bike was going pretty fast. I wanted the flash to freeze a bit of the movement on the bike, but be able to retain the movement. I could have shot it much faster without flash, but it wouldn't have looked half as good!

Fantastic Timing - Great!

Rich. It was taken just outside Hawes in Yorkshire.

Thanks Tom.

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Ouch!

There's not much left in bike photography that I haven't tried at some point. This is the exception. Just look at that background! I so want to take pictures at Phillip Island!!!

 

Nice pic. Shows the heat haze well.