Spent the day in the rain down at Leogang yesterday. Just left the flash gear in the car ‘cos I was wanting that wet kind of natural light atmosphere type shot that those Dirt Dudes across at vitalmtb are so fecking good at catching. The rain and deep mud didn’t exactly motivate me to start setting up flashes either. Tried a lot of stuff: shallow DOF, panning wide, panning tele. Tried to cover as many different spots as possible and not to get magnetized to one in particular. Walked past some obvious spots.  Should have spent more time in others. Two great angles were destroyed by walk-in-front-of-the-lens spectators just at trigger time. Had some concerns about the rain and the gear, but it was fine. Pre-focused on tree roots only to find the riders flying over different lines. Some of the marshals seemed to have irate traffic warden syndrome if you were sans-UCI bib, like I was. Anyway, was a cool day and I learnt a lot about how hard it is to nail cool shots of the DH riders on a course like Leogang in the wet.

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