Olympus E-PL2 Pumptrack Action!

[Photo-John]

In my ongoing effort to refine my Pen camera action shooting, I shot a pumptrack party this last weekend. For those of you who don't know, a pumptrack is a little backyard bmx / mtb track with berms and bumps, built so you "pump" the bike instead of pedaling. It's really good training for technical skills and it's a much better workout than you'd expect.

I decided to take the Olympus E-PL2 because good pumptrack photos are hard to take. I used the Zuiko 9-18mm zoom and the pop-up flash, pretty much using the camera like a point-and-shoot in aperture-priority and letting the blur happen. I'm really happy with these photos and feeling really good about taking the Pen camera on my trip to Italy next week!