AVON 2005  Power Boats
   
I have compiled a first set of images from my "experimental" shots. I have removed all the rubbish shots (no point in putting them on). Some of you may not find themselves in this set. The reason is that I tried to pan the boats and do different things. A friend of mine did create the images with a bit more coverage in mind rather than experiments. These shots will also come shortly and you will find more images there. I personally like to play, but that may be just me.

ALL IMAGES ARE FREE ON DVD to your club. You may do your own fundraising exercise internally with the DVD, that's fine with me. I also have a FREE poster for the club, 100cm x 60cm, just for fun ..
I liked the image and thought I share it, so I printed it.
I am actually working on an exhibition of some material. If you have more suggestions for other sports or special events then just let me know. But please keep in mind, I will not necessarily do a standard "event coverage". I could not be bothered with taking hundreds of photos at average quality. One more thing is important to note here: I do not have a price, so you cannot hire me. I do it because I like it or I don't do it at all.

This year I tried to "pan" the boats. That means to move the camera and lens and slower shutter speeds with the boat to keep the boat and passengers in focus and blur the background and the water. This is highly "experimental" (smile) because it does not guarantee good results even with a high resolution camera. But when it works the images are just stunning.
I do not have many images, which I would select as being part of my "artists' favorites". May be 3 or 4 out of my experimental shots of the power boats this year. I still have to practice a bit more, but I will eventually get there. Nevertheless they are worth publishing here for your enjoyment. A shot worth using for me would be one which I can blow up to wall size, print on transparent backlit film and place a light behind it ... that is an awesome way of displaying images. But it requires absolutely top quality material, which is usually not very easy to obtain. I also create the kind of images one could not do with a simple point & shoot camera. The support crews can take these pictures anyway.
Anyway, enough talking, please don't mind my typos, I do this in a hurry (smile) ...

The second group contains more "standard" images, nevertheless some interesting shots and very clean. My mate has done this for the first time and I must say he did a good job, a very good job. Thank you Jose. I also have removed many doubles to cut down in image quantity for quicker reference. I do not sort by competitor this year since we have much less images than last year where I had 5000+ images from bells alone.
Hope you all like it. The large images are still around 200K and would make a good 6x4. So save them on a CD or CF card and go to your local lab for print for 28c. Should work fine.

Powerboats  Group 1

Powerboats  Group 2

 

  Here is one image I like from a technical point of view. While I was panning the boat and pressed the shutter the boat jumped a bit leaving the driver in focus and the co-rider and the rest blurred. This is something you simply can not predict and you easily end up with everything blurred. So I consider myself lucky to get images like this. On top there was eye-contact of the driver with me through the lens which makes it even better.  Thanks guys for such an opportunity.