UCI Road World Championship 2017

[Mr Fjeld]

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I'm fortunate to live in Bergen (Norway) where this years World Championship is hosted. So far we have been blessed with wonderful weather, happy locals celebrating, a beautiful town and the best athletes in the world competing. I brought my M246 and a 50mm and was lucky to find a spot right after the finish line of the Women's Team Trial. It was harder than I thought but I tried to pre-focus and set the exposure at a certain point in front of me. The photos are by no means very good, and I have to admit most of them are more or less cropped - something make a point of not doing otherwise. I hope you'll like them:

 

The winning team; Team Sunweb

EmptyName 35 by Christian Fjeld, on Flickr

 

 

EmptyName 42 by Christian Fjeld, on Flickr

 

Bronze:

EmptyName 40 by Christian Fjeld, on Flickr

 

EmptyName 41 by Christian Fjeld, on Flickr

 

EmptyName 37 by Christian Fjeld, on Flickr

 

EmptyName 34 by Christian Fjeld, on Flickr

Edited September 17, 2017 by Mr Fjeld

[stuny]

An excellent set and it's amazing that mine is the first comment.

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[Mr Fjeld]

An excellent set and it's amazing that mine is the first comment.

 

 Much appreciated Stuny! I had forgotten about this one and didn't see your comment before now. 

[ash13brook]

I'm a little new to the forum.

I used to race AND shoot locally for a paper. Bicycle racing is tough enough with auto focus and a motor drive, let alone the way you shot it.

I think they're nicely done, but for me the third one down tells the story of how the racing went. My favorite of the group.

 

Matt

[abrewer]

Great shots, and a venue that we don't photograph enough IMO

 

As was noted in another thread about shooting sports with an M, if you focus on a fixed location and wait for the subject to enter it is possible to succesfully capture moving objects at some speed

 

In this case it looks like a fast shutter speed helped also

[Mr Fjeld]

Great shots, and a venue that we don't photograph enough IMO

 

As was noted in another thread about shooting sports with an M, if you focus on a fixed location and wait for the subject to enter it is possible to succesfully capture moving objects at some speed

 

In this case it looks like a fast shutter speed helped also

 

 

I'm a little new to the forum.

I used to race AND shoot locally for a paper. Bicycle racing is tough enough with auto focus and a motor drive, let alone the way you shot it.

I think they're nicely done, but for me the third one down tells the story of how the racing went. My favorite of the group.

 

Matt

 

Thanks guys The championship was fantastic. The locals really put on a great party as did the competitors. 

[EoinC]

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Nice work, Christian. I grew up racing road and track (and found out where I stood when I tried doing it for a living back in the 1980's... ), and often use the M246 / 50mm combination for track racing. The easy part at the track is that they come back around again

a003 by Eoin Christie, on Flickr

[Mr Fjeld]

Nice work, Christian. I grew up racing road and track (and found out where I stood when I tried doing it for a living back in the 1980's... ), and often use the M246 / 50mm combination for track racing. The easy part at the track is that they come back around again

a003 by Eoin Christie, on Flickr

 

Thanks Christie - I have to say I enjoy your photos from these competitions. I would love to go and see something similar. Btw, that is a great action photo; the speed visible through the blurry movement, the pose and her focus ahead! Love it!