A couple of images from a shoot back in July recording a Triathlon event held at Dorney Lake in Windsor. This happens to be the training ground for Eton college where the privileged young men get to splash around in between their lessons.
This was a job that called for good lenses in order to record the action and my
70-200mm 2.8 IS lens definitely earned it's keep on this shoot.
Apart from the establishing shots showing the setting and the context of the event I also wanted to get some individual 'mid action' portraits of the competitors, with the camera set to AI SERVO which provides continuos focus for moving subjects I was able to track them as they entered the frame and get the shots I was after.
To freeze the action called for fast shutter speeds of at least 1000th of a second, as the light was good I didn't need to raise the cameras ISO too much to achieve these speeds - I always try to keep the ISO as low as possible to preserve the quality of the images.
Apart from shooting I've recently been occupied getting a print on demand portfolio created via 'Blurb.com' (which can be seen here) ready for a trip down to Perpignan at the end of August for the annual 'Visa pour l'Image photojournalism festival.
It's been nine years since I last attended so I'm really looking forward to it.
Creating the portfolio with Blurb.com was a relatively simple (if a little time consuming) exercise and I'm very pleased with the quality of the finished books.
I'll put up a more detailed post on the process once I'm back from a weeks break on the Cote d'Azur for my annual 'switch off'.
