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[mtelfo]

got my camera out of it bag today for a play.

took this and really liked it and thought i would see what you guys think.


http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/tt22/97mtelfo/familysday315.jpg

it was a track day on the airfield at work and this is my mate,

any comments good or bad welcome please.

matt

[Alastair]

Good sense of movement and speed with the panning.. that's always the difficult bit with bikes/cars.. very easy to stop-the-motion, much harder to capture it.. well done :D

[mtelfo]

cheers mate thats what i thought shame its slightly out of focus! and my photoshop is pooped!! ha ha

thanks for the kind coments

matt

[Alastair]

I know how tough it is.. I took 500+ photos at a recent rally event.. took most of the session to get my eye on for panning.. total "good" panning shots from that day were in single figures.. ;)

The portrait format works really well for this shot btw..

[A.P]

Miss my R6 (especially on sunny bank holiday Mondays!!)

Good pic!

[FishSplish]

Fan-blooming-tastic pic!!!

I actually quite like the slight loss of subject focus as it makes a great contrast with the background giving a greater sense of movement. And it makes me miss my bike a lot too, banned from owning another by my better half after an incident involving me, a tractor, two broken legs, a broken ankle, cracked skull, and two years of operations :ouch:

Still, on the plus side it got me in to fish :thumbsup:

[pavlo]

Nice picture

My son and I did a track day a week or so ago and this is how the professional photos look

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2009Q3/DSC_4436.JPG

My son was really going for it, until this happened.

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2009Q3/DSC_4932.JPG

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2009Q3/DSC_4933.JPG

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2009Q3/DSC_4934_1.JPG

That'll teach him to try and beat dad :)

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2009Q3/DSC_5490_1.JPG

[disco_dave]

That 4th pic is a crackin shot Pav.

[mtelfo]

yeah the pros have thousands of punds to waz on a camera! i spent 300 and got into alot of trouble! lol!

slightly jeoulous of them.

next thing a better lense! just dont tell the wife lol


thanks for all the kind comments.

matt

[JJreefer]

This is one i took a couple of years ago on my old point and click at Aberdare Park road races :thumbsup:
You can see the rider i was after with his head down looking for that last bit of speed past the line.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m81/supfly51/Pdrm0006-1.jpg

[Alastair]

Good shots of the track day.. interestingly the pro hasn't gone for panning at all, but instead has picked a point of view where this is less noticeable and where he can predict the position of the rider will convey the sense of movement. He uses the depth of field from the long lens to get the background pleasantly out-of-focus. It shows that local knowledge of the location can make for an easier photograph.

The pro shots might be sharper.. but mtelfo gets a better sense of speed by going for the panning shot.. and that's a technically far harder shot than the pro chose to take.

[xvickyx]

Cracking shot mtelfo :D

[mtelfo]

cheers all yeah i went for panning as i didnt want for them to look like they were doing 0mph when they were doing about 100mph.

cheers again

matt

[Say Cheese]

That 4th shot looks expensive.
I'm assuming that your son was uninjured.