Sunday, February 2, 2014

Shooting the Toboggan race - GNCTR 2014 - Action shots

So on a Saturday morning, got up and head out to the snow mountain with a good friend of mine to shoot the GNCTR 2014 event. Though it wasn't as cold as the weekends before, staying outside that long with my steel-toed-boots was a challenge :)... For those interested with the background of this event, you can gather information from this link. The whole race was filled with fun, excitement, cheers and chants. On top of all these, engineering students from many universities in Canada competed to see who had the better design.

From an action point of view, the event had toboggans racing downhill and access was limited due to safety reasons. Also not to forget the big snow barrier that covered most of the toboggans as they passed by. As for the light, since it was a snowy day, the ambient was very low and gloomy.. yet way better than indoor fluorescent light :)... Also used a basic rain cover to protect gear during the shoot since the snow was pretty wet.

I tried two kinds of shots for action mainly... One was to freeze the motion and the other was to pan with the motion and therefore effectively blur out the trees behind the sledge. Both had their pros and cons, so trying out both was helpful. Freezing the motion helped to see the splashing of snow from the sledge and is in general easier to keep things crisp. Panning on the other hand would blur the snow splashes, and harder to keep things crisp... but if done good, they would give a lot of feel about the speed and motion.


Here are some of the results -

Frozen action shots - 



Panned shots - 



 
And finally the human Toboggan - :)

 

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Akila.  


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