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sparkchaser
04-26-2007, 06:42 AM
I got home from work yesterday just in time to see the police block off my road for Stage 2 of the Tour of Virginia 2007 (http://www.tourofvirginia.com/). So I went in, changed, and grabbed the XT.

Aside from some very brief experimentation, I just put the camera in Running Man mode and clicked away. Aside from cropping, no images have had any kind of post processing done to them.

Here is a random pic from the first lap:

http://m1.freeshare.us/138fs407989.jpg (http://freeshare.us)

Cropped it looks a little better:

http://m1.freeshare.us/138fs408297.jpg (http://freeshare.us)


After 4 or so laps, I started to move around the course for a change of scenery. Here are two from the end of the hill climb. I've biked this hill before and it isn't fun. I can't imagine climbing it almost 30 times in 50 minutes.

http://m1.freeshare.us/138fs576862.jpg (http://freeshare.us)


http://m1.freeshare.us/138fs576953.jpg (http://freeshare.us)

It's difficult to get a decent crop without ending up with an odd body part creeping into the image.:(



After the first two laps, I put the camera in Shutter Priority mode and set the ISO to 800. Results were not what I expected at all so I put it back. When I got back home and looked at them, I actually like what came out in a water color, artsy-fartsy kind of way. Uncropped original:

http://m1.freeshare.us/138fs409221.jpg (http://freeshare.us)