And the Tour of Missouri is in the same category. (Not coincidentally, it is organized by the same group that does California and Georgia.)
stan On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Doug Franklin wrote: > John Francis wrote: > >> Go for it! From personal experience, I can testify that skills >> learned >> photographing race cars translate directly to photographing >> bicycles - >> you just have to remember bikes go a little slower, so you might want >> to use a shutter speed around 2x to 4x what you would use for a car. > > Ooh, /there/ goes my hit rate. :-) With the cars I usually shoot > 1/250 > or 1/180, so 2x to 4x of that means I better not have any coffee for a > week or so before the event. > >> The Tour de Georgia is a pretty big event - only the Tour of >> California >> beats it on this side of the Atlantic. > > Wow! I don't know anything about bicycle racing of any sort. > >> Access shouldn't be too much of a problem - most of the time they >> will >> let the public right up alongside the race route. The only question >> is whether this is practical at a track venue. > > With it being on the track, and the track freshly repaved last year, I > suspect they may keep the crowd behind the fences. I'll have to > see if > my corner worker and racer contacts have any more information. > >> April 24th, you say. I wonder if I need a trip back east ... > > If you make it, drop me a line, or I'm in the phone book for > Cumming, GA. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
