Originally Posted by
dewaday
Remember though at F8 in this situation your shutter would have been 1/8s, so you'd have lots of residual blur on your focused rider. Combined with the diminishing juice of your flash, and deeper DOF you'd have a totally different look. I'd stick with wider apertures and try to find angles where the rider is coming at you more rather then across your field of view. Prefocus is another handy trick, let the rider ride into your focus point rather then tracking. FWIW, pro's have way more blown shots then keepers, they just shoot lots and spend hours editing.
FWIW2 on the other shot, my vote goes to liberal use of post funny business.
Thanks for the tip. I did age pre-focused shots with the pack coming more toward me. Shallow depth of field was great for those shots, picking out just one or two riders from the long line.
Regarding an f/8 shot,I can just bump the iso until the exposure is correct with the same shutter speed.
WR... I think they were not referring to your shot but the shot in the OP. I clicked on the error level analysis and it showed your shot.
Crap.I'm on my phone now. You can just paste the correct image url into the link on the ELA home page.