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\"DSC04805\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-6000 (16mm, f\/4, 1\/500 sec, ISO2000)
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Some more from the bike. Important not to my younger readers: Don’t try this at home!<\/p>\n

Photography is a wonderful thing and it learns you one important lesson: You can only focus on one thing. When riding a bike downhill it is the same. You need to focus on what you do otherwise you risk to crash. So going downhill on a bike and taking pictures at the same time is not a smart thing. Either your biking of your photography will be compromised. In this specific case I happily compromise on the photography side.<\/p>\n

\"DSC04836-2\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-6000 (16mm, f\/4, 1\/500 sec, ISO2000)
<\/span> \"DSC04875\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-6000 (16mm, f\/4, 1\/500 sec, ISO2000)
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The road was wide but covered with some loose gravel and wet leaves. Some bends were tricky and I needed to stop taking pictures and put my right hand back on the bar.<\/p>\n

I also did not check the composition on the screen, I focused on the track. I know on which angle I need to hold the camera to get the bar in the picture. I had the camera on its fast burst rate and shot bursts of 1-2 seconds. For the image above I held the camera at a different angle to get a shot where the background is in focus. To get both, bar and background, in focus at the same time is hardly possible unless you are riding in bright daylight.<\/p>\n

\"DSC05007\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-6000 (16mm, f\/4, 1\/500 sec, ISO3200)
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On the first part of the ride I lost some shots because of camera shake or should a say photographer shake. That’s why I put the shutter speed to 1\/500s on the downhill. The shutter speed was short enough to get sharp shots but the ISO went up dramatically. The good thing is that high ISO is not a big issue anymore today. The last shot in the dark forest area is shot at ISO 6.400. Of course there is some noise but I think it is pretty useable.<\/p>\n

The next day I did exactly the same ride again but without a camera. Instead I focused on to enjoy the ride. I’m really happy that I took all those shots on the previous blog post<\/a> and on this one but nothing beats to just focus on the ride. I was much faster because I didn’t stop for pictures and I was faster on the downhill too because I had both hands on the bar.<\/p>\n

I know that this is a photography blog but sometimes it is best to lay down the camera and to just focus on the experience.<\/p>\n

\"DSC05039\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-6000 (16mm, f\/3.5, 1\/400 sec, ISO6400)
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