Redlands Classic 2007 

 

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The Redlands Classic is an annual event that brings professional bike racing to the Inland Empire. It is a multi day event with different race courses every day. I chose to go to the Criteruim since they race around a short, technical 1 mile track. This would give me many opportunities to photograph them.

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I walked the entire track taking photos from many locations.

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Again, like the motorcycle races I wanted to convey movement. It is easy to set your camera at a very high shutter speed and freeze everything but it doesn't look natural. I want to slow the shutter down and pan along with the rider.

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I could get hooked on this action photography<grin>. If I had chosen one of the other tracks where they covered many miles then racers would have gone by me once and that would have been it. This way I had action for 60 minutes in the women's race and 90 minutes in the men's race.

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