Lance Armstrong finish at Stage 11 Courcheval France

[IronDad]

Here's a picture I took at Stage 11 of the Tour de France as Lance Armstrong had dropped all pretenders to his throne but Allesandro Valverde and was sprinting to the finish. I just got the camera a week before, it was overcast, I forgot to change the ISO, and I was standing on a slanted roof to get this shot so it's not the best but I liked the sense of power and motion with Lance and I really like the expression of the two women to the right and left.


Canon 20D
70-200 f4 at 70mm and f4
1/250 (shutter priority)
ISO 200
Matrix metering mode

image 2864 x 2047 pixels

I added some fill light and sharpened it with Picasa and that's all I did. I hosted it with "tinypic.com" but as you can see it's anything but "tiny"... sorry, a true newbie here :oops:

Anything else you might suggest to salvage this shot?

Oh... and how do I get this picture smaller?


http://tinypic.com/aui0l3.jpg

[Drg]

thats hot

[IronDad]

Here's another one climbing at the top of La Madeline:

Canon 20D
70-200 f4 at 91mm and f4.5
1/4000 (shutter priority)
ISO 1600
Matrix metering mode



I didn't do anything to this picture.

I just like it for some reason.



http://tinypic.com/auier8.jpg

[spencer87]

i'm so jealous- I come from a cycling family and I really wanted to go for his last tour.

cool shots! i really like the last one.

S

[Carzee]

The last one is just.. pure class, its out there. The eye!

[DavidEB]

the close shot is awesome. unique. brilliant. I've never seen a cycling shot framed like that, but it's great. You get the sense that no matter how fast the photographer, Lance is already gone.

[IronDad]

the close shot is awesome. unique. brilliant. I've never seen a cycling shot framed like that, but it's great. You get the sense that no matter how fast the photographer, Lance is already gone.

On the second one I was just in the middle of the road on the mountain (like everyone else is) and firing off my 5-whatever frames per second and happened to catch that shot framed like it is.

Thanks for the comments.

[Incomplete Pete]

Good to see someone else was at Le Tour this year!

Second one would be awesome if you'd moved the camera to the left a bit! Afraid that given it's current position it doesn't do anything for me, unless you'd got Hincapie more in focus in the background. Is it sad I can identify a rider from a blurred shot like that? lol

[IronDad]

George was next to him, that's Popovich ;-)

[Incomplete Pete]

I was convinced it was Popovych at first, but looking at the shades I'm sure they're the the silver Racing Jackets on George's helmet....

Ah well, you were there! lol