Redlands Classic

On Saturday April 9, 2016  I attended a Bike race Called the Redlands Bicycle Classic. On Saturday the racers were on stage 4 out of 5.
Too take pictures I took my Nikon D7100 and for the lenses I took my 18-140mm and my 55-300mm.

Redlands Annual Bicycle Classic

 It was overcast during the race so the lighting was good, there was no harsh light. I was still able to get a fast shutter speed so i could capture the Cyclist in motion, but at times i just had to raise my ISO(light sensitivity) just to a higher level. This was a good experience to lens how to take pictures in different environments, it was a lot of fun, I hope you enjoy the pictures.

The race had three different groups of people, the First Group of people to race where the Para-cyclist.

I didn't get this many pictures for this group of people because it was a fast race about 30min or so, but I was mostly walking around and I ended up talking to some of the volunteers and one of them was from Canada and I don't remember where the other one was from.

The next set of racers was the women. 

Lauretta Hanson (Front)

Member of Groove Subaru/Excel Sports Team

Visit Dallas DNA Pro Cycling Team

The winner of the women's race ended up being Lauretta Hanson.

After the women the was a 30min break from racing, then at 4:30pm the men Started there race. The men's race was a 90min timed event. It went by very quick especially since they were doing 1:30sec laps which was a great pace.

At the Start of the event I first went to take some pictures by the very first turn from the starting line.

I ended up doing a lot of walking but I didn't walk the full course. I did about half of it and it brought me in a circle. I was able to take pictures of the racers from different points, it helped a lot when the lead Motorcycle came by because you then would know that the racers were coming soon.

On my camera I used Auto focus, but at the start of the race I used mode in my Nikon camera called continuous focus which means it will try to follow a moving subject. But, because there was so many people I switched my camera to a single point focus mode. It gave me the ability to use one of the fifty-one focus points on the camera and lock on a subject. Changing the camera to this help me a lot to focus onto a single cyclist.

Team Jamis

Rally Cycling Team

Ulises Castillo, from Team KHS-Maxxis-JL Velo, winner of Men's Stage 4 of the Redlands Classic

At the End of the race the was a crash at the last turn. You can kinda see it in the photo above, I didn't really get a good picture of it because it was far from me and i was limited of focal length.

Overall this was a very fun event and I am happy with the results I got, and I hope you've enjoyed them too. Please Share this with your Friends and family and give me some feed back on what pictures you would like to see.

© 2016 Kenneth Zuniga