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by **rollerskate skinny (sylv)** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:46 am

What time are the evening racing on Tuesday nights? Might come watch and take photos this week.

Cheers

by **Brett P** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:23 pm

Youths start @ 6.30pm
cat 3/4 @ 7:17
E,1,2 @ 7:15

by **rollerskate skinny (sylv)** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:45 pm

Thanks, just saw the "7:17pm" on londoncyclesport, and wondered whether it was a typo (7h? 17h?).

I'll be there if it's dry.

by **rollerskate skinny (sylv)** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:02 am

John last night - watch the sprint he won on the last image.

I'll put up some of other riders later.

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a69johnsmall.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a63johnsmall.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a65johnsmall.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a57johnsmall.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a26johnsmall.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a28johnsmall.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a70johnsmall.jpg[/img]

by **Elliot M** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:29 am

sylv, top pics, getting better and better -- what's the secret? how do you get digital camera to catch the action rather than fire half a second after they've gone past???

by **rollerskate skinny (sylv)** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:11 am

Ah, that's the tricky bit of pre-setting both exposure and focus, by half-pressing the shutter looking at something which is at the same distance from you as you guess the rider will be, and also which is sorta "average grey" ie not too bright or too dark (or if you can use a full manual mode, preset the aperture and shutter speed to give you a correct exposure), say something like the road or grass works ok. Use a reasonnably fast shutter speed like 1/500s or faster (for this you'll need to increase the ISO if you can if it's getting dark, like I had to do on some which makes the pictures a bit grainy - I could've tried using the flash too but I didn't want to bother the racers), watch the rider coming through the screen and fully press the shutter at the right time, you can pan with the rider's movement which helps keep him sharp (and blurs the background). It might all sound complicated but it is actually quite easy.

But you know I still had to take 100+ photos to get about 30 I like ... and quite a few had just the back wheel of a bike ;-)

A race like this is really good to practise as they went round 30 times.

Great looking gazette btw, I'll have a better look at it later today.

by **Rory** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:02 pm

top notch pics, sylv.

has the gazette been sent out? did i bin it by accident?

by **rollerskate skinny (sylv)** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:10 pm

Sorry maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it - Elliot sent a draft last night.

Some more action

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a62small.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a56small.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a51small.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a53small.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a2small.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a39small.jpg[/img]

Who is this young Addiscombe?

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Crystal%20Palace/a7small.jpg[/img]

by **Elliot M** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:38 pm

great spot for the ones on the inside of the corner as well -- looks like that vcl rider is suffering!

rory, gazette is being checked and will be emailed in next couple of days

by **JayneToyne** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 4:18 pm

that vcl rider?

do you mean Bryan Taylor?

by **rollerskate skinny (sylv)** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 8:29 am

yes

[img]http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Sylvain/Beastway%20week%2010/brian_taylor.jpg[/img]

by **Elliot M** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 11:10 am

er.....

replace "suffering" with "one of the fastest and best-known riders in the UK".

by **Elliot M** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 2:23 pm

Gold National Omnium 2001
Gold National Derny 2003
Gold National Motor-pace 1991 & 1992
Gold World Masters 30-34 Points 2002
Gold World Masters 30-34 Pursuit 2002
Gold National Masters 30-34 Points 2001, 2002 & 2003
Gold National Masters 30-34 Pursuit 2002 & 2003
Gold National Masters 30-34 Scratch 2001 & 2003
Gold National Masters 30-34 Kilo 2003

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