Saturday, December 4, 2010

Pictures for the Print Edition of KIWIRIDER

2010 for print.

It's an interesting part of the job now. Whittling down the thousands of images collected over a 5 meeting event. Only a few can be included in the Print Edition of KR, so it's a matter of trying to make each pic worth as close to the thousand words as possible. For that I mainly 'focussed' on the race winners and I still ended up with 3 times as many pics as required by the Ed's brief. Here's just some of the selection dilemmas I faced.

You can click on the images to see their enlargements on flickr.

A Beach Mood

This year was as close as I've seen to the colours of the original pics of Burt racing as they are displayed the Southland Museum.
beach mood

The sea mist rolled in before a change to showery conditions.
beach action2

And they're off!
Good colour and Jason Feaver in front.
beach 50 mile start

beach feaver leads

Always nice to get an 'artsy' one of the race winner.
beach jason feaver

or the stock winning shot, although it was raining and pretty gloomy
beach feaver wins

And I like the speed in this one
beach jason feaver 2

Sand = action
Aussie Chris Watson was a 'sideshow' all on his own. His long tracker gapped pretty much everything it raced too.
beach chris watson 3

beach chris watson 2

beach chris watson portrait

This great clarity out of the D90 in this one.
beach chris watson

Solid image of 2008 winner and runner up in the 50 miler Greg Baynes
beach greg baynes

And show the great variety of bikes in the other classes.
beach cloud-smithth

beach the digga

beach george leads leng

Or wonder why you would do this? :-)
beach stack

Or the rider's view?
beach JD girl

This one is called; OK, there is no good place to crash, but some places are better than others.
beach ideal place to crash

The Mayor and Burt's Son John
mayor shadbolt & john munro

The Hill Climb.

The Hill Climb doesn't offer the same spectacle as the flying sand so it's a solid shot of Ryan destroying the course record and some faces and around the pits. Good vertical shot is always handy for the mag layouts too.
hill climb ryan hampton 2
Co-pilot took these two. I was on video.
hill climb ryan hamton

The 'tards winner
hill climb Chris Manson

hill climb girls

The Long Track

More interest at the long track and more sideways and flying dirt.
I got solid images of a number of competitors but Watson was crossed up delightfully again.
long track action chris watson

And Andrew Aldridge was dominant in the Speedway Bike class.
long track andrew aldridge 2
or tight,
long track andrew aldridge

And this shot really appeals too.
long track brendon manu

Plus I have crowd shots for each of the five venues
long track crowd

Or try and include the crowd and action shot all in one.
long track chris watson2

long track action

The wide angle out of the go-pro worked pretty well too.
long track wide angle

Some Girl power
long track girl power

And a photo finish
long track Jason Fever and Alex Griffen

The Speedway

It was quite dark by the time the second round of races started at Oreti park. I had ISO cranked to over the 1000 mark to get enough light for some of the images.

A bad start, but the young fellow walked back to the pits under his own steam.
speedway bad start

Grant has won the Solos 3 times in a row
speedway grant tregoning

speedway final start

It was getting very dark and photoshop to the rescue for the sidecars final win coming straight at the lens.
speedway sidecar final win

Fortunately I can use a flash when they've stopped racing.
speedway sidecar John Pitt & Kervin Demanser 2

speedway sidecar John Pitt & Kervin Demanser

The Sprint Races
Teretonga is a simple layout that affords a number of good photographing spots.

Show the size of the fields.
teretonga big fields

The crowd streaming in
teretonga crowd

and the diverse range of people and machines. I dig Inia's helmets.
teretonga inia

Solid race action shot
teretonga lee munro and cameron jones

Ryan winning everything again
teretonga ryan hampton

and happy campers
teretonga mood

up close and personal with the stunt show
teretonga stuntman 2

teretonga stuntman

The Street Races
Nice close to the action event.

By now I'm a big team Hampton Fan.
wyndham team hampton

Lee Munro too.
wyndhamn bears start

And Chris Fisken put himself to the back of the field and won by a wheel.
wyndhamn Chris Frisken handicap

The posties and the crowd
wyndhamn crowd

Gavin won the Motatards
wyndhamn Gavin Veltmeyer

Gremlin
wyndhamn sean harris

F3 Winner
wyndhamn Sid Chaloner

What a tough gig (not).

The fans
the lads

Which ones will the Ed choose? I don't know - we'll have to buy the Feb Issue to find out. Meanwhile...I need a drink...
beach bd


here's the full set as a slide show

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