B&W Cycling Photography
Its hard to do, if your photographing a road race you have to find the right position, have the right camera, and take the picture at just the right second as they fly by. If you miss it your pretty much out of luck unless you can get ahead of the pack somehow. Its damn hard to do… at least it is for me, yet somehow Graham Watson seems to catch all the right moments….
I only manage to get a few pictures of people racing around here (mostly because I am racing right after or before). I have come across some amazing pictures in the past few weeks via Cycling Tips Blog, my own searching, and a few random clicks of the mouse. I have tried to save my favorite pictures in order to post them here for you guys & gals to view. I managed to rack up quite a number of images… way to many to post, so… this might be the first of many post that highlight what I think are Great Cycling Pictures.
First up the great black and white stuff I love.
Tom Tveitan Photography (http://tomtveitanfoto.blogspot.com/). I came across these pictures via the Cycling Tips Blog and though the black ones of Emma Johansson were absolutely amazing. Emma Johansson is a very accomplished cyclist from Sweden that currently races on both the Red Sun Cycling Team and Härnösand CK. She was a silver medalist at the last Olympic Games, 1st overall in Trophee d´Or (french), 4th place at the World Championship and 6st at the UCI ranking…. not that shabby at all. You can read more about her and her cycling career on her website – http://emmajohansson.com/
Next is the pro portraits of the pros via Timm Kolln – http://www.timmkoelln.com/. I also found this stuff via Cycling Tips Blog (I may be on Wades site to much, but its good stuff). These pictures were taken after the Giro D’ Italia Immediately after they crossed the finish line. Some amazing stuff… lets hope he has done something similar with the Tour this year.
And finally a few of my own just because I can. These are the best actual ‘riding’ shots that I have taken…. at least i think they are. My cycling photographs library has well over 1000 photos and i didnt really have the patience to look through them all.
I love the feel of black and white pictures… without the colour i feel more forced to focus on what is happening within the picture; the expressions, surroundings, movement all that mumbojumbo. I have a few more of my photos that i wanted to post but the kinda look like crap parked beside the professional photographers stuff so I’ll keep it to only four images this time. If i come by any other cool cycling pictures I’ll be sure to post it here.
Cyclist in photos are Kobe D – Steve G – Norton – Kobe D
I am excited to take my Diana F+ camera to the next race… will be cool to see what the images turn out with the old school camera. Check back soon and find out.
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