Team pursuit, world cup classics, Manchester, 20 February

1/4th @f16, lens 70mm, ISO 200

This was taken during the team pursuit qualifying that lasted for over an hour with the individual teams competing against the clock one at a time. This meant I had plenty of time to experiment with slow shutter speeds and lighting. I ended up combining the effects of flash-blur and reverse panning. Normally, to get a feeling of speed, I would set a slow shutter speed and follow the cyclists as they made their way round the track. However I worked out that if I was to pan in the opposite direction to the cyclists using a slow shutter speed and simultaneously trigger a remote flash inside the track, then I could freeze the rider in silhouette and blur the scenery. After quite a bit of playing around with different exposure settings, I settled on this and then just had to get my timing right (via Tom Jenkins’s best sport shots of 2011 – in pictures | Sport | guardian.co.uk)

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    That is an incredibly beautiful shot.

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    :O!!!! pero si aquí retrataron al cumpleañero del día >.< Por cierto, por cierto! Feliz cumple para @ptdrow

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