A random TT bike I thought I'd share.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I took it at Governor’s Bridge (5 minute walk from where I live) on the way to work (sort of)

It’s a random bike because I only stayed for about 2 minutes and I am not enough of a TT fan to know the competetors, but pictures of bikes going fast are good benchmarks for photography and the one I took is quite good if I do say so myself.
A week later I watched the Senior TT race. The bikes were going too fast (I was at creg-ny-ba, don’t ask me how to spell it) so I wondered up to kate’s cottage and got two good (but not as good as the linked pic) pics.
Next year I will take more time off work and attend more races… Quarterbridge is a good spot for pictures. By then I might have a big boy’s camera (a real digital SLR)

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Here are some from the Senior TT









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Great pic! Keep em coming!

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I read your mind.

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:slight_smile:

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I’ll say so, too. How many shots had the pan speed wrong? The TT is way whacked.

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I am going to guess you mean how many of the shots I took were blurred because I didn’t pan fast or accurately enough.

The answer is nearly all of them.

I took a few good films by using the force (ignoring the viewfinders and just pointing the camera at the bike as it went past)

If by ‘whacked’ you mean crazy/insane. That’s true. It is taken for granted that people will die every year. This year four people died (three bikers and a marshal) That’s about normal.

It’s sad, but the bikers know what they are letting themselves in for, so do the marshals (to a lesser extent) and the spectators. I’ve been in the line of fire of a sidecar that lost control myself.

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I’ve had good luck with 1000 speed film for getting good bike pictures. Haven’t tried it with a digital camera yet.

Post more, post more!

So living there what is it like while the TT is on? Does all normal activity stop?

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Oh gawd, the Isle of Man TT. I swear, I’m going to race it one year! I swear!

This has always been my fav TT pic:

http://www.iomtt.com/MediaAssets/000973.jpg
RIP, David Jefferies.

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Oh, and on the photography side, I’ve tried taking pics of fast bikes, its not easy. Your’s are pretty good. I have a digital camera (Powershot A60) and while its not an SLR and isnt the best optically, it does have a full manual mode. Definitely shoot iso 1000. I also prefocus on the spot where I want to capture the bike, and try to time the shot during the pan or when the bike enters the frame.

A perfect pan isnt easy to pull off, but the results are great. When you get good at it you can shoot at a slower speed. This will have the subject still focused but blur the background for that nice speed effect.

Here are some of the racing shots I tried to pull off with my camera:








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What is the “TT” in your descriptions?

This is my idea of a TT bike. A “time trial” bike.

Aside: We need to get one of us to stop calling what we ride a “bike”.

I say that bicycles should be called bikes.

And for motorcycles. . .we can just call them “Big Mopeds”.

Go back to your pictures of your Big Mopeds.

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The “TT” in this instance stands for “Tourist Trophy”.

Motorcycles have every right to be called “bikes” as bicycles. :stuck_out_tongue: