Night Riding

AnnaComposite, originally uploaded by Andy Waterman.

On Wednesday I went out riding with Anna Glowinski from www.ananichoola.co.uk and Team Mulebar Girls to take some shots of her riding her new Whyte E120 whilst using the lights the team have recently received from Exposure Lights. The problem of doing night-ridig shots at this time of year is you have to hang around in the woods for so long for it to actually get dark. By the time we'd got the shots and I'd ridden the 30mins home, it was 11 o'clock. I was knackered the next day!
The riding shot was a 15sec exposure with two flashes triggered by radio triggers, triggered manually as Anna came past. So: set the shutter running, then hit the flash at the right time to get the best shape. I did it like this so I could get the light trails all the way through the shot, with the rider in the middle of the trails.
The portrait was shot with a lensbaby 3g - a budget tilt-shift lens - and one flash. I'm undecided about this - the majority of me likes it though. I like the way the lens isolates the name of the bike and Anna's face, and they're the important bits after all. Let me know what you think and post a comment!

More fashion stuff

Shot some fashion stuff at the weekend for Laura's styling portfolio, all on film with the Bronica. Love that thing - magical.

9, originally uploaded by Andy Waterman.

11, originally uploaded by Andy Waterman.

5, originally uploaded by Andy Waterman.

I am not Andy Wardman

Andy Wardman is Scottish, he works for Forestry doing MTB related stuff. He also rides cross. Yeah, his name is pretty similar to mine - I've often mistaken him for me when I'm looking through the cross results, and wonderd how I managed to come top 5 in a Scottish Series race... — but we are very much different people who have never met, despite (or maybe because) living in a somewhat parallel universes.
This self-filmed video is excellent. I found it thanks to Dave Haygarth and his UKCyclocross.com site. Enjoy!

Local trails ala cx from Andy Wardman on Vimeo.

Dalby - in Colour

More from the Bronica, this time with Provia 400X - scanning this stuff is a nightmare, give me the lattitude of negative film any day. The whole set is on my Flickr

Dalby World Cup XC - first scans

Dalby6-ABSALON, originally uploaded by Andy Waterman.

I've only scanned the black and white stuff so far, but I thought I'd show you what I've got so far. This afternoon I've got a bunch of Provia 400 to scan. Fun fun fun!

Dalby World Cup - Film Haul

I can't wait to get this little lot developed. If it comes out anywhere near as good as it looked through the Bronica's viewfinder, I'll be very happy indeed.
Dalby turned out to be a great event. The weather played ball, big crowds showed up and both men's and women's races were exciting events, right to the finish line, the men's particularly where Nino Schurter just got the better of Julien Absalon in a sprint finish. Absalon was super pissed off once he crossed the line and stormed off immediately - pretty funny.
Having got home at midnight last night, I feel like a zombie, but I'm going to get this film developed today and should have some scans up tomorrow. Who said film is slow?

This is slick

Men's Journal Magazine May 2010 Cyclocross Fashion Shoot from Dylan Coulter on Vimeo.
The finished photos on Dylan's site - boy are they slick or what?