Motorsport Photography - 1st try
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After an obscenely early start (alarm set for 04:45 
) on Sunday, I've had my first go at photographing a motorsport event - the Oakington Spring Stages clubman tarmac rally in Cambridgeshire.
As another first, I even tried some panning shots - some of which I'm fairly happy with.
I'd love to get some feedback on the pics. I really enjoyed the day and will hopefully do more, so knowing where I've gone wrong will be very helpful.
Anyway, pics are up on a temporary site (with horrible layout thrown together) at www.egatesolutions.co.uk/photography/oakington/
) on Sunday, I've had my first go at photographing a motorsport event - the Oakington Spring Stages clubman tarmac rally in Cambridgeshire. As another first, I even tried some panning shots - some of which I'm fairly happy with.
I'd love to get some feedback on the pics. I really enjoyed the day and will hopefully do more, so knowing where I've gone wrong will be very helpful.
Anyway, pics are up on a temporary site (with horrible layout thrown together) at www.egatesolutions.co.uk/photography/oakington/
Thanks for the tips guys, I shall try my best to take it all in.
As far as editing goes, other than deleting really bad shots directly from the camera at the time, I've done nothing so far. All I did was resized the images and put them all up.
There was method to this madness, believe it or not
One was just a matter of time, the other was that a couple of the drivers/co-drivers on the day asked if they could see the photos I took of them, so I put them all up for them to take a look at.
I will go through and just selectively pick out the best and run them through Photoshop to see what I can pull out of them.
As for the day, we had everything from bright sunshine to almost black sky and driving rain.
Thanks for the tips about motion. To be completely honest, I just set the camera to the "sport" mode that automagically set it up with ISO400 equivalant and as high a shutter speed as it could. So a lot of the pics were taken at 1/1500 or 1/2000.
Next time...
As far as editing goes, other than deleting really bad shots directly from the camera at the time, I've done nothing so far. All I did was resized the images and put them all up.
There was method to this madness, believe it or not
One was just a matter of time, the other was that a couple of the drivers/co-drivers on the day asked if they could see the photos I took of them, so I put them all up for them to take a look at. I will go through and just selectively pick out the best and run them through Photoshop to see what I can pull out of them.
As for the day, we had everything from bright sunshine to almost black sky and driving rain.
Thanks for the tips about motion. To be completely honest, I just set the camera to the "sport" mode that automagically set it up with ISO400 equivalant and as high a shutter speed as it could. So a lot of the pics were taken at 1/1500 or 1/2000.
Next time...
I wouldn't insult Simpo by linking him to those pictures if I were you... Afraid I'll have to take the criticism.
Thanks for the comments. I did think that the backgrounds let a lot of them down. As I said, I pretty much left the camera to do it's thing and just concentrated on not getting hit by Rally cars.
I shall get back out there ASAP and try using a few more manual inputs.
Thanks again for all the help guys.
Afraid I'll have to take the criticism. Thanks for the comments. I did think that the backgrounds let a lot of them down. As I said, I pretty much left the camera to do it's thing and just concentrated on not getting hit by Rally cars.
I shall get back out there ASAP and try using a few more manual inputs.
Thanks again for all the help guys.
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