Tips please

  TOLD YOU SO  Ruth

            I speak with experience as you know having been in the thick of a few few of these day long road closures. And do you know with all that there is me giving John advice when my own efforts at doing panning shots for the practice run a year before the actual olympic race- they were rubbish ! I think standing on the kerb and trying to track a bike on the quick is not so good. I reckon if you can a viewpoint set back from the road could give a more smooth swing/sweep ( so long as there not hordes in front of you ).

           Not so much a hijack Ruth- more a going off at a tangent , but the subject is still applicable.

One tip for taking pictures against the light or in difficult lighting is to take a light meter reading from the back of your own hand. Have your hand in the direction of where you will shoot and set your camera from that reading. The back of the hand is naturally darker than the palm. This has worked for me many times. I know our all singing and dancing cameras have many fancy settings, but sometimes the back of the hand is just as good as a spot meter.

No, it's not an April Fool's joke.

I almost submitted an April Fool picture today of a new triple decker bus but it just looked odd, as did my Liver Bird flying over the Mersey. I've got a year now to think of something sufficiently daft but convincing.   

Very interesting tip Rod, I'd not heard that before.

Vince I did pick up your post - thanks