More cycling (Hopefully…) More running (Hopefully…) More walking (Definitely…)
2023…
running
Runner
Eastleigh 10K
Not sure why the organisers put cones in the way of the runners!
Photos are few and far between….
I’ve been a bit slack over the last year. I haven’t taken anywhere near as many photos as I should have. Actually, I should say I haven’t been out to take photos. I realised this when I went to upload some pictures to Flickr from the 5k run at work, and saw that I hadn’t actually created many albums since the 5k run last year. It’s at this point I should say “I will aim to create an album a week”, but targets don’t help me. Deadlines do though, so I need to find a way to set deadlines.
Running
As part of our work departmental games, one of the events was a 5k run around the site. This was done at lunchtime of a very hot day. It was 28 Celsius when I left at 5pm so I don’t know what it was like at 12. I was hot and I was in the shade! I was asked to take some photos. I tried a different approach this time in that I shot JPEG instead of RAW. I thought I would take more photos, but actually I should have taken RAW anyway. As there wasn’t that many runners I was able to try and get a couple of shots of all of them. I used my Nikon 18-200mm lens, but there were times when I wish I had something faster, but I ended up with some decent images.
The full set can be found here.
The Eastleigh 10K
I always try to get down to the Eastleigh 10k run if I can. Last year, there were lots of people from where I work so I was concentrating on trying to get photos of them. This year I wanted to try and get some slightly different angles, and use shots I’d thought about getting rather than random shooting.
Some worked, some didn’t. I also worked out what shots I want next year. I did manage to get some shots of people I know though.
Task 5
As part of my BTEC course, I have to produce pictures for a number of tasks. Task 5 was about movement and I needed to get a ‘panning’ shot. I decided to go to the local Parkrun in Eastleigh to see if I could get a panning shot of the runners. It turns out it is more difficult than I thought. In order to get a blurry background, because the runners are relatively ‘slow’ you need to have a slow shutter speed… which in turn makes it harder to get a crisp shot of the runner. Better to have a fast moving subject and use a faster shutter speed. I did get one that I could use, but actually my favourite photo was the one below. The runner is blurred, but in a way that makes the photo a bit surreal. I’ve added a preset from Lightroom just to add to that effect.
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