Re: big time cycle racing California...

In all fairness to Mark and Steve, cycle racing is a difficult venue to photograph. Since I am in the bicycle business, I often attend races and have seen countless thousands of bike racing photos. It is easy for me and others to become a bit overly critical of bike racing photos that I feel are not perfect and fit the accepted norm. I understand where Mark is coming from too. I also appreciate Steve's photos and understand the difficulty in this type of photography when you don't have a prime camera position. Keep up the good work, Steve. You'll just keep getting better at it. 

Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Bohrer" <lurchl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: big time cycle racing California...



Jim:
You're right, I take it a bit further than the average guy...

Mark


At 06:21 PM 2/23/2007, you wrote:

Hi Mark,
The way I look at it is that you are a 'professional' bike race photographer and have privileges beyond the average bloke. And you have a lot of experience in supplying race photos for money, therefore, you HAVE to provide what the readers want to see. So experience and access to produce salability are your forte.
Steve made some very eye catching and pleasing photographs that, for the non-race-sale viewer, are pretty darn good. I personally could care less about the bike wheels - I like the series of colorful helmets and grimacing faces, in a nice curve making for a very nice composition (#2). 

IMHO,

:-)

Jim


At 07:38 PM 2/23/2007 -0600, Dave Saalsaa wrote:



Jim:
This image of gravity racer Cedric Gracia shows what I'm talking about:
http://tinyurl.com/gx3pg

Admittedly, I was on-course and had a lot more room to work with.



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