Tour De White Rock 2009 Road Race

Dizzy_Tour De Whie Rock 20090719265, originally uploaded by John Irvine.

This is Nieves Carrasco, a three-time National Time Trial champion back home in Costa Rica. He escaped half way through the Tour De White Rock Road Race and solo'd in to win.

Nikon D300
Nikon 80-200 F2.8 at 180mm
F3.3
1/6000 sec.
ISO 200
Fill Flashed remotely;
Camera left of rider w/ sb900 zoommed to 17mm @ +2.3 EV
Rear Curtain
Camera exposed @ -0.5 EV
triggered with Su800

Tour De France Shots

No, no, no. Not mine...Im not worthy of the tour de france...maybe one day, but check out this guys shots of last years tour, 2008. Neat, light, gesture and characters. Brent Humphreys is his name.

http://www.projectletour.com/

Zoom - BC Bike Race Stage 6 in Squamish

Zoom, originally uploaded by John Irvine.

Whipped up to Squamish to get some shots of the BC Bike Race. Got into the burms at the bottom of Pseudo Pseuga. and set up two lights. One immediately left of the riders up close and on a tripod, and one down hlill and right of the riders on the ground on a gorilla pod. Panned the shots at a slow shuttler speed to get the blurring and had the flashes set to rear cutain so I could freeze the rider and get good detail of them as they passed. Details below.

Nikon D300
Nikon 12-24 F4 at 19mm
F4
1/30/sec.
ISO 250
Fill Flashed remotely;
Camera right of rider w/ sb800 @+1EV w? dome diffuser.
Camera Left w/ sb900 2+1EV
Rear Curtain
Camera exposed @ -0.5 EV
triggered with Su800
Panned rider

Yaletown Grand Prix 2009

Yaletown GP 2009 Pro Races200907012, originally uploaded by John Irvine.

Had the pleasure of going to the Yaletown Grand Prix and shooting the pros. n this shot I set up a Nikon sb900 to the right of the rider, on a gorilla pod, attacehd to the race fencing. It was at dround level. Sat on the ground at the back of this corner and shot as the racers came by. Details below.
Nikon D300
Nikon 80-200 F2.8 at 145mm
F2.8
1/6000/sec.
Fill Flashed remotely, camera right of rider
sb900 @ +1.3EV
Camera exposed @ 0 EV
triggered with Su800

Was a great race to watch. In the mens Race, long time Whistler local Will Routely left the group and lapped the field with about 3 laps to go. In the womens race, Alison Testorete dominated from within the pack, jumping during the primes and at the sprint to easily win the race. Its one of my favorite races to watch given the tricky corners and little climbs.

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.
To see more check my website at;

http://www.johnirvinephotography.com/BCBikerace_NorthShore/

Thanks for reading!

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.