Cyclist

Cyclist, Millers Point, Sydney – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

Cyclist, Millers Point, Sydney – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

This is an unframed, limited edition collection landscape photography print of only 25 units. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl papers, structured to refract the highest values in colour and detail. It’s high-quality ink absorbing layer enables exceptional image quality with enormously detailed sharpness, and a very broad colour range, providing archival permanency of your artwork for over 100 years.

Canon 5DMk2, 20mm, F8, 1/200th sec, ISO 1600, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

Hickson Road around Millers Point is one of the most historic parts of Sydney. I love the old buildings and the modern aspects of the towering city in the background as a contrast. Subsequently it’s also a very popular cycling route on a Sunday. I watched as cyclist after cyclist used this historic road as a personal velodrome. I began to see how Sydney siders use the inner city. You could not do this during the week. It’s just too choked with traffic. It seemed to interesting an aspect to pass up.

Cyclist, Millers Point, Sydney – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

Playing with shutter speed can be fun, but sometimes you need to be damn accurate. A shutter speed can determine how your image is interpreted from the action within. The cyclist flew past at around 60km/h and so a very fast shutter speed would have captured him…but probably froze him robbing us of knowing his speed. A semi slow shutter speed may have blurred him too much. Use your shutter to find the best representation of the subject. Trial different speeds but use one that leaves us wondering more.