Olympic track cycling pics

[Kirstie]

My other half, the lucky lucky man, got tickets to the velodrome in Beijing on Saturday, and went along to watch ... he got some great photos, including some good shots of brad wiggins and chris hoy. They're on his flickr site here if anyone wants a gander.

 

[fossyant]

Great !

 

[Keith Oates]

Good shots Kirstie, you have one very lucky husband to be there and witness those races!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[John the Monkey]

Some great stuff there Kirstie!

 

[Kirstie]

I just spoke to my other half and says thanks for the positive comments!

 

[dodgy]

Some waaaaay better than average pictures there, nice job!

Dave.

 

[Melvil]

Cool pics! Like the fisheye one of the velodrome especially - can you ask your other half how he likes the D300, Kirstie? Am tempted to buy...

 

[Kirstie]

I just told him to take a look at this thread. I think he has a CC login but not sure...hopefully he'll be along soon.

Basically he loves the D300, and has lots of lenses for it too. The fisheye he's used in that pic you mention is a Peleng 180 degree lens - there's a Peleng group on flickr who just post those bendy looking pictures! Peleng is a factory in belarus which makes optical equipment - you can buy their stuff on ebay for significantly less money than any other western photographic company, and get good results with it.

I think to get the professional look with the D300 you also have to be very good with photoshop and do a lot to tweak the settings on the camera itself. There's a lot more which is adjustable on it (that is my understanding anyway). He's moved to that from a D70...

 

[Kirstie]

Cool pics! Like the fisheye one of the velodrome especially - can you ask your other half how he likes the D300, Kirstie? Am tempted to buy...

Melvil, Mike says 'that the D300 has extremely impressive high ISO performance and long exposure noise reduction.' ie http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmichaelwright/2629438430/in/set-72157605953877460/

...apparently...!

He also says:
'the D300 has a 'magic' ability to remove colour fringes from cheap lenses'

 

[John the Monkey]

You know he needs a really good 200 or 300 for this sort of thing, don't you Kirstie? Like an f/2.8, or something?

 

[Melvil]

Melvil, Mike says 'that the D300 has extremely impressive high ISO performance and long exposure noise reduction.' ie http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmichaelwright/2629438430/in/set-72157605953877460/

...apparently...!

He also says:
'the D300 has a 'magic' ability to remove colour fringes from cheap lenses'

That's cool - I sometimes like to do long exposures of the coast to capture the water 'mist' effect and on some of the exposures you get rather a lot of noise. Another nice pic from Mr Wright, too.

 

[Kirstie]

You know he needs a really good 200 or 300 for this sort of thing, don't you Kirstie? Like an f/2.8, or something?

I wish I understood that comment...if you mean a telephoto lens up to 300mm, well, he has one of those, but it weighs a tonne. His baggage allowance for China was only 20 kilos, so he couldn't take the lenses he wanted to take.

 

[Melvil]

I wish I understood that comment...if you mean a telephoto lens up to 300mm, well, he has one of those, but it weighs a tonne. His baggage allowance for China was only 20 kilos, so he couldn't take the lenses he wanted to take.

F2.8 telephoto lenses cost a bomb! The Nikkor 70-200mm one for the Nikon range is £1200...whereas you can get a F4-F5.6 55-200 for about £170...

 

[Kirstie]

F2.8 telephoto lenses cost a bomb! The Nikkor 70-200mm one for the Nikon range is £1200...whereas you can get a F4-F5.6 55-200 for about £170...

The one he's got is an old one borrowed from a mate who is a proper pro photographer...

 

[mr Mag00]

can we see him on t' tele?