Ray Sachs
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- you should be able to figure it out...
Did some shooting at our local criterium last night, which has become something of a major regional event. The first few were during an early race when there was still enough light to shoot with longer lenses and stop the action, so I shot them with the OMD and longer lenses. The first is with the 45mm and the second and third are the 75-300 at full extension. I was shooting with the 4fps burst mode for these. Just sort of standard freeze action shots that get at the participants a bit but don't convey much of the feel of the event. Then for the later race the light was getting pretty sketchy, so I pulled out the X-Pro and 18mm and just did some panning and motion blur shots at slow shutter speeds. I did a bunch of similar shots at last year's race with the X-100 and sort of lucked into them - this year I was doing it with more of a sense of purpose and an idea of what I was doing... Processed with the Polaroid Transfer filter in Color Efex Pro to get the ripped and shredded borders which I really like with the sense of movement and mayhem in this event. Having done a very small amount of racing many years ago (not well, I should add!), I have a vague idea of what it feels like in the middle of these things and I think the X-Pro shots get at it a bit more than the freeze action shots.
For the motion blur shots, the OMD would have done at least as well, if I'd had the right lenses with me. For the panning, I'm not sure how the OMD would have worked - the IBIS might have been at cross purposes with it and I /really/ love the OVF for panning - nothing like real time light pass through without any electronic confusion!
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For the motion blur shots, the OMD would have done at least as well, if I'd had the right lenses with me. For the panning, I'm not sure how the OMD would have worked - the IBIS might have been at cross purposes with it and I /really/ love the OVF for panning - nothing like real time light pass through without any electronic confusion!
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