BC Bike Race comes to the North Shore

BC Bike Race_North Shore2009062829LR, originally uploaded by John Irvine.

Made my way up to Severed D. on Mount Seymour to shoot the 1st Stage of the BC Bike RAce. Got to a marshy spot and set up the lights. For this shot I used 2 Nikon SB800s (both set at 0EV) 1 camera left low on a tree, one camera right up high on a tree, attached them using using manfrotto superclamps. Set up an SB 900 (set at -1EV) on my tripod behind the tree on the right side of the frame. All these were triggered remotely with a nikon commander unit. Exposed the shot at -0.5 EV. Used a 50mm lens, f1.8 at 1/125.
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Squamish Rock Star

Squamish Rock Star 20090621_2425LR, originally uploaded by John Irvine.

Up in Squamish this past weekend. Test of Metal Weekend. Rode the race on Saturday and burned 1500 calories at least. Went to the Squamish Rock Star to get some photos on Sunday. Was a bit late, so I stopped at the first burm I found and snapped a few shots of the races at the bottom of the course. Speedy. Used my 80-200 f2.8 and set up a single SB-900 camera left of the riders. Got some fun shots. Click on the pic above and that will take you to my Flikr account where you can view more. Hope you like them.

Kootenay Mountain Culture Summer 09 Issue

The new Kootenay Mountain Culture Summer 09 Issue is out and Peter Moynes the publisher and photo editor was nice enough to select one of my images for the editors intor page. So psyched. Thanks Peter.