Stunt Bikes

[smcclelland]

Was doing some winter-cleaning of the hard-drives and trying to organize some photos when I stumbled across these shots I had taken at the Toronto Grand Prix in July 2007. Apparently I had completely forgotten about them after editing them!

1. This was during mid-day race on Saturday, burnout poured smoke across the entire track.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2076/2307952414_43d0eb6d94_o.jpg

2. Yep, even the most hardcore riders wear Crocs!


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3083/2307952476_c0325e7724_o.jpg

3. Some of the badging had the local authorities giving a rather stern eye to the riders :)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2242/2307952510_ceb888d513_o.jpg

4. A last shot I got before they stopped the show for the main event race, unfortunately lost my balance squatting down and it blurred slightly.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/2307147611_b78c0c09d9_o.jpg

[jlozano180]

Great shots, I like the second one the best. How do you do the black & white with the color so perfect in pic number two?

[smcclelland]

Thanks for the comments, for the black & white background I use the lasso tool to select the areas I want to convert and then I just convert to grayscale for the selection. There was so much going on at the event and so many distracting elements behind the riders that I figured doing a background fade would help make the riders stand out a bit better.

shawn

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[jlozano180]

Thanks for the comments, for the black & white background I use the lasso tool to select the areas I want to convert and then I just convert to grayscale for the selection. There was so much going on at the event and so many distracting elements behind the riders that I figured doing a background fade would help make the riders stand out a bit better.

shawn

Thanks, i'm going to try that.