A few from the last race I shot

Erbeman

BCSPhotoguy

Great Shots! 3 & 8 really do it for me! i have yet to be conformtable enough with the local race guys to try and get a shot like this!!!! The sky in #8 really adds to it. What lens are you using for these?

Travis

Awesome - the colors, sharpness, motion all perfect.

Erbeman

BCSPhotoguy wrote:

Great Shots! 3 & 8 really do it for me! i have yet to be conformtable enough with the local race guys to try and get a shot like this!!!! The sky in #8 really adds to it. What lens are you using for these?

Thanks, yes I absolutely love the effect of the setting sun on the kids helmet and bike on #8. That pic kinda goes against the rules of having the sun behind me, but I think it worked well in this instance. I was using my Nikkor 35-70 F/2.8 for that shot.

Erbeman

Travis wrote:

Awesome - the colors, sharpness, motion all perfect.

Thanks brother, I really try to keep my post processing to a minimum. I see too many pics of races nowadays where everyone jacks the saturation up to 50 or so and it just looks fake to me. All I do it bump saturation to in between 5-10, adjust the highlights and shadows just a tad and a little unsharp mask. I appreciate the compliment

SimonMW

The kind of photos that I aspire to take!!

Erbeman

SimonMW wrote:

The kind of photos that I aspire to take!!

Thanks Simon

shoppix

the lastrace
Graet action shots, cropped tightly, sharp, a nice plain/boring background!

But, I would try slightly slower shutter speed to let the wheel spokes become blurry. We all know these guys are moving, but that bit of blur adds relaity to the image.

Steve

Darren Troy C

great photos!....looks like #247 is about to have a bad day.