2013. Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Another one with the Pentax Q + 03 Fish Eye toy lens. This is one of my favorites of this genre and era of my photography.
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Riding through Algonquin Provincial Park by
John Flores, on Flickr
1/320s, F5.6, ISO160
That little bit of motion blur in the foreground makes the shot for me. I was caning the little Honda NC700X and trying to exaggerate the lean angles in the curves to accentuate the movement. That's the thing about motorcycle photography that's different than car photography - in car photography, you can fake speed in Photoshop. It's a lot harder to do with motorcycles because the lean angle of the bike and posture of the rider are visual cues to speed.
The whole goal of this series was to bring the viewer with me, to feel like they are riding with me. This may be my most successful attempt and ended up being the lede photo for the story:
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Ontario_RoadRUNNER_Jun14.pdf by
John Flores, on Flickr