Having finally recovered from the bike mega-shoot last week, I spend some time this morning working through the shots and picking out some of my favourites. Highside Tours like to put some photos up on their website, but don’t fancy trawling through seven hundred photos to make a selection, especially on a rather tired XP laptop with no appropriate software. But using Lightroom on a Mac makes browsing a pleasure and I soon have my top 20 selection.
Most of the time I try and slow down the shutter speed to give the impression of movement: [imgset:72157607353168290,thumbnail,true]
But with my sexy new 135mm F2 lens in my bag, I had to try some shots at F2, which meant a high shutter speed but minimal depth of field. The results were interesting, freezing the bike in a small viewing space. [imgset:72157607356661511,thumbnail,true]
I like to get good views from the rear of the bike, quite hard to track the bike as it comes close to you and then moves away, I often just end up with a blur; but these worked: [imgset:72157607356662835,thumbnail,true]
Talking of good views from the rear, a single shot of Khun Duan appears to be more popular than any number of bike shots, so here are two more, just to satisfy those readers who are more interested in babes than exposure bracketing (i.e. everyone; apart from me of course, unless the babe happens to be she who must be obeyed and she is reading this). [imgset:72157607356664035,thumbnail,true]