Thursday, August 20, 2009

The Tour of Utah - Stage 1

The Tour of Utah finished their first stage yesterday at Research Park after coming down Emigration Canyon. I managed to get out of the office and run up to the mouth of the canyon to catch the racers. A few more photographs can be seen on my website. Also on my website is a lot of the support cars.
I slowed the shutter speed down to 1/250 and panned with the racers to create the blurred background and their spokes blurr out. It gives a nice feeling of speed. It is definitely harder to capture, however, I think it makes a better photograph.

The main pack coming out of the canyon.
Here are the eventual winner and second place finishers, Paco Mancebo (Rock Racing) and Oscar Sevilla (Rock Racing). They of course came out of the canyon first. I wanted to make sure I captured them so I shot a shutter speed around 1/2000, thus you can see the spokes clearly.

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