The Wonder Of Light

It feels like an age since I’ve taken any real images in anger, so I jumped at the opportunity yesterday to go along to the Irish Cross Country Mountain Bike National Championship race in Djouce Wood, Co. Wicklow and I had a lot of fun I’ll be the first to admit that shooting sports is not exactly my genre, let alone shooting mountain biking, but at the same time I was really interested to see if I could apply my “skills” and techniques to this sort of event. Kit wise, I kept it pretty light, necessitated more so by the walk into the woods than anything else. On my camera for the majority of the day I used the 70-200mm and for lighting my Quadra Rangers got another outing; which were perfect for an event like this. (more…)