While I was up at Whistler this weekend, Red Bull was putting on Canada's first ever mass start downhill race. They also decided to have a photo contest which was perfect for me since I wasn't about to enter the race. After a beautiful day of riding on Friday, we were treated with light to heavy rain on Saturday, which was race day. Not the best conditions to race in and possiby worse to shoot in. After hiking up to where I wanted to shoot I had to get my 2 flashes setup and covered so they'd stay dry. I decided to do some 2nd curtain sync with the off-camera flashes. To do this you use a dedicated on-camera flash to trigger the PW. By setting the on-camera flash to 2nd and using an optical trigger on it to trigger the PW, you then get all off-camera flashes to shoot 2nd curtain sync. Let me know what you think.
Our friend Carolyn from up North.
This is the picture I'm thinking of entering. It partly depends on how many people can see what's wrong.
Here's Shaums March before the race
Here he is towards the finish.
Here I decided to try rotating the camera instead of panning. I rotated it clockwise which would've been fine except I was shooting 2nd curtain sync so it looks like I was shooting 1st curtain. I should've rotated the camera counter-clockwise instead.