Almost got ripped off stupidly by NCP Brighton's Car Park at £4 per hour! Luckily she caught that lol... Drove around the corner and found parking which was 5-10min further walk, but was £4 for 9hrs!
Don't know about everyone else, but I'd rather walk that 5-10min and pay that! £4 per hour is ridiculous!
I decided to test out what it would be like shooting like a tourist, as next week I will be a tourist shooting around HK and Thailand... Couldn't decide what gear I would need, so I brought all of it... Stupid mistake...
Ended up carrying 5 lenses and a flash gun with me... and then I only ended up using the one lense... trusted old Nifty-Fifty...
The 50mm is well-known throughout the Photography world as an essential Prime lens... it sees the world as your eye sees the world, allbeit with a restricted field of view... but you find no distortion in the corners, and everything appears as your eyes would see them...
It's also a very fast lens, opening up to f/1.4, which can create a very shallow depth of field, however on a bright sunny day, creating a shallow depth of field with a wide opening like that was next to impossible. Even at ISO100 and 1/8000sec shutter, I was still over exposing by over a stop of light... I had to close it down to around f/2.5... which would probably be best anyway as it'll help for a sharper image...
As we walked toward the Pier, it was a completely different feel to London. London is so rushed, distant and cold. Brighton everyone was walking around, taking their time, and you get a sense of community there... One section you would have people stunt biking, another break dancing, another Basketball etc... All enjoying their own craft, and bonding together... You do get a really good vibe being there...
I decided to shoot the bikers, as what I saw them do was almost completely new to me... other than 1 clip I saw on YouTube, I haven't really seen Bikers perform stunts like this, it was very impressive... Some of the jumps I saw them do I couldn't make with my own two feet, let alone with a Bike inbetween my legs...
(Nikon D7000 + 50mm f/1.4 @ ISO100, 1/4000sec, f/2.5)
I thought this was a great capture. The 1/4000sec truly froze the moment of this biker mid-air in a jump... To me, this looks epic...
With the editing, I decided to give it a very warm slightly desaturated feel... I wanted it to represent the feel for weather, and give it a sense of a good moment in time... Therefore I desaturated the image a bit to give it a slight Vintage feel... Adding a tint of blue in the Shadows...
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