Going bush was a mission to find this track. After a long day at work we made it through the traffic then down a bush track for 30mins then hiked for another 30mins. All worth it when we made to the mountain bike track. Down near the bottom there was some pretty cool man made corners and jumps.
Paul and Rudi getting the bikes ready
The signs and the Burm
Mountain biking only sign and all my gear


I started off with my 70-200 2.8 and ran a fast shutter speed to highlight the rider and burm. Paul took a few goes to try and get high around the burm and this was the result.
We were losing light pretty fast and i quickly tried out a fisheye shot but a little too quickly and didn’t dial down my flashes then blowing out Rudi’s shirt, face and helmet.
I had 2 flashes on tripods and one on a home made clamp in the tree to the top left of this photo.

This clamp cost about 5 dollars from the hardware store, made some small modifications with a 1/4 inch screw on the end and the results, you can clamp this anywhere.
Fisheye landscape shot, still a little blown out but works well with the sky
Next spot JUMPS!!!!
It was almost dark by the time we made it back up the hill to this jump, 2 flashes on tripods to the right and one clamped to the tree to the left. It took me a while to get the power out of the flashes as i still wanted details in the sky but not to blow out Rudi.
The final shot, Paul boosted the jump in almost pitch black darkness. I ran pretty slow shutter speed, dialled down my flashes, just caught a bit of then sun setting, some nice sky and lit the rider and the ground up. Seeing it was a pretty slow shutter speed, the rider wasn’t lit completely. Not a bad effect and can work in some situations. I think this shot turned out pretty good and i was happy with finishing the shoot. Paul couldn’t see anything after the flashes went off anyway and almost crashed after each jump so we walked the 30min walk back to the car in complete darkness. Well worth it. Some cool shots.


























