Mountain High Photography
How Cycling Photography is a Challenging Yet Rewarding Hobby
All over the world young women and men discover the bicycle riding sport every day, and in each event you will find some photographer or maybe two who is recording the spills and thrills.
Mountain bike and bicycle contests and races offer the unparalleled opportunity to take action photos, plus photos of individuals or large groups moving really fast over different landscapes. These opportunities offer a lot of chances where you could take individual shots (close-ups of riders concentration, striving, downcast or elated). Also, the environment is another aspect awaiting to be featured dense forests, steep mountains, sunshine, old towns, storms, rain showers, smooth and rough Some photographers just go a little further and see in the crowds of cyclists together with the landscapes an opportunity for taking abstract or semi-abstract compositions photos.
Cycling photographers could cover different sorts of cycling events, or can concentrate on one or two categories, like cross country, or road, track (for example, velodrome), downhill, BMX cycling, Mountain X. The same way, they could choose covering regional or local events or international or national events like Tourde France. Photographers can choose to use digital cameras or traditional film-based SLR cameras. Digital cameras offer the advantage you can take lots of photos on each event (never worrying about paying a lot of expensive film), after which you only keep the best shots and discard the rest.
They also allow photographers to edit shots after the event has taken place, by improving contrast and color, and crop away distracting elements, leaving only clear, strong images. These are very compelling reasons to use digital cameras when taking photos. It’s probably why this type of photography has gained wide-spread acceptance even early on.
Even using modern digital SLR cameras, the cycling photography could a little bit of a challenge because of varying and difficult lighting conditions sometime, and the speed of bike riders that are whizzing by, plus changeable weather conditions. Photos of bicyclists and bikes have been taken since nineteenth century. Subjects starting from high wheelers and “bone shakers” to tricycles and tandems, from cyclists slowly biking American and European towns and specialist subjects like circus clown bikes.
Recently, there were only a handful of photographers internationally-known that specialize in cycling photography, big names include Phil OConnor and Graham Watson. The posters, books, photo collections and postcards printed by them act as inspiration and guides for the amateur and the professional cycling photographers to help them improve photographic skills, judgment and taste.
About the Author
Alex is a writer about photography techniques for http://reshade.com . Reshade works in the field of online picture processing programs and offers a free online photo resizer web-tool. It’s also possible to purchase a photo resizer application for Windows. Give it a try !
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