At Left - Bikeguy, 3rd. Avenue, NYCCopyright Eric Rudolph all rights reserved
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I had a mini-project, shooting fast NYC bicyclists in action near my old office at 3rd. Avenue and 48th St. The photos were all boring. So I ditched the point-and-shoot and got out my medium format Bronica RF645 w/ strobe, set the shutter speed to 1/15th or 1/30th, picked a reasonable f-stop, zone focused and waited for someone on two wheels to come zooming by. All well and good, but it came together in this shot with the black SUV contrasting with the rider's face, the white truck contrasting with his black hair and all this great motion blur contrasting with the frozen areas where the strobe hit the most directly. Oh yeah, and the cool dude w/ baseball cap in the black SUV. This bicyclist was going very fast among intensely dense midtown NYC traffic, and I think this shot captures that feeling nicely. Shot on Tri-X 120 film in the 645 format, w/ 65mm f4 Zenzanon lens. GO TO www.bwphotopro.com for more on the whole world of B&W photography.
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