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A few more from Lithgow's IronFest

Iron - all the way from Milwaukee... this the colour of the bike


Hot - you could sign up for a class and learn to make your own knife


Red - enjoying the show a candid shot


Fire - another shot of the canon... better blast by forgot about the background when framing


We will have to organize a proper DSLRusers meet next year as the place is a photographers paradise

firsty wrote:Fire - another shot of the canon... better blast by forgot about the background when framing

Hi Keith, I wouldn't worry about the background in this one. This shot (pun) is all about timing. You could not have asked for better. Did you have to do many shots to get this?

Cheers
John

2nd and last one are excellent, especially the last one - excellent capture.

Alex

Love the last one. Perfect timing. Did you use burst mode to make sure you captured it at the right time?

Awesome shot of the cannon blast! You managed to nail the exposure in the first shot as well which is great considering the amount of chrome on that thing.

thanks for the comments

the canon shots were taken in burst mode @ 5fps, on this canon there is about a 1/2 sec delay between the operator touching the primer powder and the muzzle flash so basically you hit the shutter button when he touches the primer and you should get something useful on about the 3rd or 4th frame
I didn't get any usable shots from the other canons as you couldn't see when they were about to fire them

the cloud cover helped a lot with the exposure on the bike

firsty wrote:I didn't get any usable shots from the other canons

But at least you got some great shots from the nikons.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Canon shot is brilliant, what shutter is that?
Such a shame about the forester in the back

fishafotos wrote:Canon shot is brilliant, what shutter is that?

ISO 200
f 2.8
1/640
135mm (my Ais 135 2.8 manual focus lens) using aperture priority

the other canon shot from the first thread was 1/320