Free Ride

Free Ride, Sydney, Australia – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Free Ride, Sydney, Australia – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art 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, 24mm, F8, 1/60th sec, ISO 1600, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

I love this shot. The tour provider just loves the attention from me, and seems proud of his strange vehicle. I saw him coming and knew the city of Sydney would make an awesome backdrop to an odd scene. Now I say odd only because I had b=never seen one of these type of tour services in Sydney. Im now well informed, “they have been around for years”. Ok, well I guess I’ve been living under a rock. Haha, anyway, I still think this is a great depiction of Sydney. The city, the people, the streets and the traffic in all its different forms.

Free Ride, Sydney, Australia – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

This was a shot I had time to construct. I watched him pedal up the street and chose a shutter speed that I thought would just blur the shot. I would have liked a little more blur, but then I would have lost the riders smile. If you have the time, consider the settings you use carefully. Think of what you need to see in the image to capture a striking image. Use the surrounds to compliment the subject, and use a setting that makes them stand out. In this case a shutter of 1/60th seems fast enough, but moving at a decent pace, just a tint amount of blur tells me, the viewer, that he is pedalling, not idle, posing for the shot.