Not car pics but bikes for a change!

[Col 666]

Yamaha British superbike team were up at Knockhill today in fantastic weather doing some testing. Was getting to grips with my new kit before the new race season starts in anger a week on sunday.
Any criticism is more than welcome...I think!









Was trying to get a shot of the dash but the damn brake fluid reservior got in the way! What do you think the 70 is? He was prob doing about 70 kmh when the pic was taken but its not normal for race bikes to have speedos.


Col.

Edited by Col 666 on Thursday 20th March 11:19

[toothlessjim]

Very cool, lovin pic 1 and 3.

[flat-planedCrank]

Awesome shots 1 + 2 especially

These with your 300mm f4 ?



Wish i'd have known it was on, would like to try shooting bikes sometime

Cheers.

[Col 666]

flat-planedCrank said:

Awesome shots 1 + 2 especially

These with your 300mm f4 ?



Wish i'd have known it was on, would like to try shooting bikes sometime

Cheers.

Most of them were with the 300mm, got an 80 - 200 f2.8 as well now which replaced my 70 - 200 VR which I thought was crap for motorsport pics.

I prefer taking pics of bikes rather than cars to be honest, more action! Standing on the edge of the kerb on the inside of the hairpin when 20 bikes are coming towards you at race speed fairly gets the adrenaline pumping!!

[Tracksport Dave]

flat-planedCrank said:

Wish i'd have known it was on, would like to try shooting bikes sometime

Cheers.

There is a bike test day this Saturday at Knockhill 2PM - 6PM

[Col 666]

yeah, bike trackday in the morning then KDMC testing in the afternoon....in the snow?!

I am going to Crail for the rally....in the snow?!

[leeb]

think you may have scratched the inside of my monitor!! they are bloody sharp mate, very impressed!! whats the secret?

[Tracksport Dave]

Col 666 said:

yeah, bike trackday in the morning then KDMC testing in the afternoon....in the snow?!

I am going to Crail for the rally....in the snow?!

I will be at Oulton Park Saturday and Monday for the British GTs so hope the weather will better there than it will be in Fife.

[Col 666]

leeb said:

think you may have scratched the inside of my monitor!! they are bloody sharp mate, very impressed!! whats the secret?

No secrets! just decent kit, steady hand, quick trigger finger and a good eye!
Funny thing is, I had an opticians appointment this afternoon straight after being at the circuit and found out that my contact lens prescription is wrong!

So having wonky eyes must help!

[mcgus]

excellent! not done bikes before but perhaps I'll pop up on Saturday...

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

That's a pretty flawless set of images - did they require much post-processing, or are you doing it all in-camera?

[Col 666]

S. Gonzales Esq. said:

That's a pretty flawless set of images - did they require much post-processing, or are you doing it all in-camera?

They have had some cropping and a couple have had a tiny bit of shadow/highlighting done but apart from that right out the box.

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

That's quite impressive - shows all you need is talent and the right light.

Isn't Shadow/Highlight great though? I can't believe the detail it can extract from seemingly hopeless areas.

[Col 666]

Light is really important for great action pics, was near perfect today.

Yeah its amazing what shadow/highlighting can find! Things you didnt even know were there in reflections etc..

[Piers_K]

Nice set of pictures...

[Scoobydougie]

Cracking pics!

How do you find out about the testing days? Never anything on the Knockhill website, would think they'd be better days for pics, not so many spectators getting in the way!

[Col 666]

Scoobydougie said:

Cracking pics!

How do you find out about the testing days? Never anything on the Knockhill website, would think they'd be better days for pics, not so many spectators getting in the way!

The testing dates are sometimes a private affair, teams not wanting others to see how/what they are doing. They are usually pretty boring with a lot of time when nothing is on track while the teams are tweaking or altering set-ups etc.
There is a big test which I wont disclose coming up but photographers are banned completely, even us and we do a lot of work for Knockhill.