and here is one from the autograph signing. keep in mind Tony D is confied to his quad which is a big one and has a big "roof" on it.
Tony D. Roger D. Danny Laporte. Jo jo Keller (blue) Pat Moroney, Broc Glover, and Weinert, and that might be John Dowd he's talking too.
This is the 3rd time I've seen Tony D within a year as he teaches a MX class once a year at a local track and he is truly a man of great presence given his situation.
I was at Unadilla too! You're right, it was super hot. And for my first time shooting MX, it was super fun.
Here's a few shots that I was happy with.
The sky is completely blown out in these next two, but there wasn't a vantage point that I could get to (save for a media pass) to prevent it. O well, I still dig em, though.
I think the last two are great! Did you use flash? Sometimes ya gotta use what the track throws at you! These are still keepers to me! The others are good - but the last two stand out!
Hey BCS
Nice seeing you at walton ,checked out your pics real nice.
Hopefully will be at portperry in a few weeks when steelcity riders are there.
The Owner of the track Chris Lee flaging the last race on saturday.
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I was at Unadilla too! You're right, it was super hot. And for my first time shooting MX, it was super fun.
Here's a few shots that I was happy with.
The sky is completely blown out in these next two, but there wasn't a vantage point that I could get to (save for a media pass) to prevent it. O well, I still dig em, though.
C&C away!
great shots. loved the #9 Honda with the old school silver and Elsinore tank emblem up on the radiator cowling.
I think the last two are great! Did you use flash? Sometimes ya gotta use what the track throws at you! These are still keepers to me! The others are good - but the last two stand out!
Thanks!
Yeah, I used flash for most of em. D40, 55-200 VR and an SB-400. I just wish the sky wasn't so overcast/blown out!
Here's a few more, same jump. What these guys can do in the air just boggles my mind.
Thanks for your feedback!
After some days with too much work there was finally some time to enter this forum again. This pictures was the first with my new lens and I am slowly getting the grip of how it works no. I have found it really hard getting the images in focus and after some investigation on the internet I was thinking that there was a problem with back-focus. I found this exelent site: http://focustestchart.com/chart.html and downloaded the chard and made som test photos and Yes, there was a problem with back-focus. After further investigation on the internet i found a program that opened up the AF-tune mode on my Pentax K10D and now the focus is setted correctly. I havent hade time yet to test this out on the motocross track but I will post some of the best images from the last race (with back-focus problem).
I have a problem with shooting photos of mx-riders when they are in the air with the blue sky as background, every image is too dark, I have tried spot-meeting, center meeting and standard meeting but i dont get good results, How do you do this ? Are you using center-meeting and adjust the exposure compensation?
Thanks again for your critics and it is very helpful.
Here are a few shots I took at the Budds Creek Nationals this past Saturday.. These haven't had any post processing yet, not even cropping.. so I know there's a lot of improvement to be had there.. I think I got some ok shots, and I'll post up more once I can do some editing to them.
For now, here are a couple that look ok as is I think
I'm actually not a big fan of the panning shots, but I know a lot of peole like the artistic affect of them.. I meant to take a few, but got distracted somehow and forgot.. this is the only one that I took, it's not too bad, but I'm not that happy with the focus.
There are a few more uploaded HERE if you guys want to look at them, but they all at the very least need to be cropped.. I'll upload quite a few more eventually.
Comments and Critisim are welcome, I won't let you see me cry
Here are a few shots I took at the Budds Creek Nationals this past Saturday.. These haven't had any post processing yet, not even cropping.. so I know there's a lot of improvement to be had there.. I think I got some ok shots, and I'll post up more once I can do some editing to them.
For now, here are a couple that look ok as is I think
I'm actually not a big fan of the panning shots, but I know a lot of peole like the artistic affect of them.. I meant to take a few, but got distracted somehow and forgot.. this is the only one that I took, it's not too bad, but I'm not that happy with the focus.
I love taking panning shots whenever I take motorsports, but I realized that the MX riders seldom bought them. I never understood why, but I eventually learned to stop trying to sell them. To me the high-shutter-speed stop-action look just really doesn't cut it.
Your shot there is hard to get! A slow-shutter pan on a jump. To me that image of yours JUST SCREAMS SPEED! And it does it in a manner that the typical fast-shutter jump just can't get. That's a great image! What part of the focus are you not happy with???
Why do MX people typically not like slow shutter shots?
I love taking panning shots whenever I take motorsports, but I realized that the MX riders seldom bought them. I never understood why, but I eventually learned to stop trying to sell them. To me the high-shutter-speed stop-action look just really doesn't cut it.
Your shot there is hard to get! A slow-shutter pan on a jump. To me that image of yours JUST SCREAMS SPEED! And it does it in a manner that the typical fast-shutter jump just can't get. That's a great image! What part of the focus are you not happy with???
Why do MX people typically not like slow shutter shots?
Well thank you for the compliment. I guess I'm just not thrilled that the entire bike isn't in focus.. really only the riders back/helmet and the bike seat are in focus.. The forks are blurred and so are his legs.. If only the background was blurred and the rider was in sharp focus, then I guess I might like it better.
I guess for me I like the shots that freeze everything, so you can study the emotion of the rider and view things in the photo that you can't see with your naked eye (i.e. roost that is frozen in air). Of course, what I like doesn't mean a whole lot as far as what makes a good picture since I'm pretty new to photography
Well thank you for the compliment. I guess I'm just not thrilled that the entire bike isn't in focus.. really only the riders back/helmet and the bike seat are in focus.. The forks are blurred and so are his legs.. If only the background was blurred and the rider was in sharp focus, then I guess I might like it better.
You're asking for the impossible. All that stuff is not staying in constant relation to each other while the shutter is open. The forks are extending, front wheel is possibly turning, the entire bike is rotating around its center of gravity, etc.
To me, the sheer sense of speed and motion, the emotion of the shot, more than makes up for a lack of crispness. Look at the forest, not at individual trees.
so......
Just got home after 3 weeks in the hospital.
Great to be home and see the kids
Talked with the insurance guy and he came over today to grab my broken up gear and gave me a check for some new equiptment :ivar (New mark 3 on its way soon )
Before i handed the camera over I pulled out the CF card to see some of my pics from that day.
The light was just getting good and I was able to get a few nice pics, but this is the last image I shot just moments before impact
so......
Just got home after 3 weeks in the hospital.
Great to be home and see the kids
Talked with the insurance guy and he came over today to grab my broken up gear and gave me a check for some new equiptment :ivar (New mark 3 on its way soon )
Before i handed the camera over I pulled out the CF card to see some of my pics from that day.
The light was just getting good and I was able to get a few nice pics, but this is the last image I shot just moments before impact
I guess for me I like the shots that freeze everything, so you can study the emotion of the rider and view things in the photo that you can't see with your naked eye (i.e. roost that is frozen in air).
I guess that's why the rider's claimed my photography was too artistic.
so......
Just got home after 3 weeks in the hospital.
Good to hear you're out. When I saw Erbemans thread "MX Photographer Down" it sent chills down my spine. We all do MX photography for a variety of reasons but at the end of the day we're all doing MX photography and at this stage of my life I consider MX and the photography of it to be two pretty special things. The sound of the words that one of us was down and reading the brief details was a bad dream come true, though from your perspective I think maybe it was a tad worse. Glad to hear you're on the mend. I had a bit of a fundraiser and as soon as I finalize the sale of a dust gathering bike I never quite bonded with I'll be sending some of the proceeds your way, among other places.
Hang in there and I hope you get well soon. Keep at it.
As the season begins to wind down in the north east between being busy at work and being screwing off on other websites I haven't posted here much lately, so in a somewhat backwards order some recent shots of mine.
Shot Saturday and Sunday this weekend. On Saturday I stumbled on the Sharpness setting on my D300.
Was anyone going to TELL me about this?
I knew the D300 was capable of much more than I was getting and I'm pretty happy with the raising of the bar I experienced, evenif its only my bar.
Can't they just set them up for you when you buy them??
From Saturday. I'm tickled with it.
I had also found the Saturation slider and this one is a tad too high but I like the shot none the less. I dod tend to get attached to these riders and this bean pole of a kid who's somewhat deaf and doesn't have the flashiest gear rides this RM250 2 stroke to bring tears to your eyes. Saturday he beat (again) a rider who finished 17-19 in the 450 class at Unadilla National.
Give it up for Chuck Fox. On the freaking gas and just nailing it.
One from Sunday. A 250 shutter and a little panning got this one. Of course having a rider who can get this length on this demanding downhill jump (more than it looks) helps.
Jay Weller, who qualified for the Unadilla National and Steel City also I believe.
The previous weekend I spent considerable time at the starting line where they have this cool convered gate. Got lots of cool people pics I'm pretty happy with and had to be on my toes with ISO and such as it was overcast, shaded, etc etc.
787 is James Weinert, son of former National Champion Jimmy Weinert seen to the right.
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Tony D. Roger D. Danny Laporte. Jo jo Keller (blue) Pat Moroney, Broc Glover, and Weinert, and that might be John Dowd he's talking too.
This is the 3rd time I've seen Tony D within a year as he teaches a MX class once a year at a local track and he is truly a man of great presence given his situation.
Here's a few shots that I was happy with.
The sky is completely blown out in these next two, but there wasn't a vantage point that I could get to (save for a media pass) to prevent it. O well, I still dig em, though.
C&C away!
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Nice seeing you at walton ,checked out your pics real nice.
Hopefully will be at portperry in a few weeks when steelcity riders are there.
The Owner of the track Chris Lee flaging the last race on saturday.
The 2 Julies
HoleShot
Canon XSI
18-55 AF IS
55-250 AF IS
Canon 430 EXII Flash
great shots. loved the #9 Honda with the old school silver and Elsinore tank emblem up on the radiator cowling.
whatever happened to gas tanks??
Thanks!
Yeah, I used flash for most of em. D40, 55-200 VR and an SB-400. I just wish the sky wasn't so overcast/blown out!
Here's a few more, same jump. What these guys can do in the air just boggles my mind.
After some days with too much work there was finally some time to enter this forum again. This pictures was the first with my new lens and I am slowly getting the grip of how it works no. I have found it really hard getting the images in focus and after some investigation on the internet I was thinking that there was a problem with back-focus. I found this exelent site: http://focustestchart.com/chart.html and downloaded the chard and made som test photos and Yes, there was a problem with back-focus. After further investigation on the internet i found a program that opened up the AF-tune mode on my Pentax K10D and now the focus is setted correctly. I havent hade time yet to test this out on the motocross track but I will post some of the best images from the last race (with back-focus problem).
I have a problem with shooting photos of mx-riders when they are in the air with the blue sky as background, every image is too dark, I have tried spot-meeting, center meeting and standard meeting but i dont get good results, How do you do this ? Are you using center-meeting and adjust the exposure compensation?
Thanks again for your critics and it is very helpful.
/Martin from Sweden.
For now, here are a couple that look ok as is I think
I'm actually not a big fan of the panning shots, but I know a lot of peole like the artistic affect of them.. I meant to take a few, but got distracted somehow and forgot.. this is the only one that I took, it's not too bad, but I'm not that happy with the focus.
There are a few more uploaded HERE if you guys want to look at them, but they all at the very least need to be cropped.. I'll upload quite a few more eventually.
Comments and Critisim are welcome, I won't let you see me cry
Your shot there is hard to get! A slow-shutter pan on a jump. To me that image of yours JUST SCREAMS SPEED! And it does it in a manner that the typical fast-shutter jump just can't get. That's a great image! What part of the focus are you not happy with???
Why do MX people typically not like slow shutter shots?
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Well thank you for the compliment. I guess I'm just not thrilled that the entire bike isn't in focus.. really only the riders back/helmet and the bike seat are in focus.. The forks are blurred and so are his legs.. If only the background was blurred and the rider was in sharp focus, then I guess I might like it better.
I guess for me I like the shots that freeze everything, so you can study the emotion of the rider and view things in the photo that you can't see with your naked eye (i.e. roost that is frozen in air). Of course, what I like doesn't mean a whole lot as far as what makes a good picture since I'm pretty new to photography
To me, the sheer sense of speed and motion, the emotion of the shot, more than makes up for a lack of crispness. Look at the forest, not at individual trees.
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Just got home after 3 weeks in the hospital.
Great to be home and see the kids
Talked with the insurance guy and he came over today to grab my broken up gear and gave me a check for some new equiptment :ivar (New mark 3 on its way soon
Before i handed the camera over I pulled out the CF card to see some of my pics from that day.
The light was just getting good and I was able to get a few nice pics, but this is the last image I shot just moments before impact
Man that's pretty sweet!!
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Good to hear you're out. When I saw Erbemans thread "MX Photographer Down" it sent chills down my spine. We all do MX photography for a variety of reasons but at the end of the day we're all doing MX photography and at this stage of my life I consider MX and the photography of it to be two pretty special things. The sound of the words that one of us was down and reading the brief details was a bad dream come true, though from your perspective I think maybe it was a tad worse. Glad to hear you're on the mend. I had a bit of a fundraiser and as soon as I finalize the sale of a dust gathering bike I never quite bonded with I'll be sending some of the proceeds your way, among other places.
Hang in there and I hope you get well soon. Keep at it.
Shot Saturday and Sunday this weekend. On Saturday I stumbled on the Sharpness setting on my D300.
Was anyone going to TELL me about this?
I knew the D300 was capable of much more than I was getting and I'm pretty happy with the raising of the bar I experienced, evenif its only my bar.
Can't they just set them up for you when you buy them??
From Saturday. I'm tickled with it.
I had also found the Saturation slider and this one is a tad too high but I like the shot none the less. I dod tend to get attached to these riders and this bean pole of a kid who's somewhat deaf and doesn't have the flashiest gear rides this RM250 2 stroke to bring tears to your eyes. Saturday he beat (again) a rider who finished 17-19 in the 450 class at Unadilla National.
Give it up for Chuck Fox.
Jay Weller, who qualified for the Unadilla National and Steel City also I believe.
Nice kid, quiet, 16, not the fastest guy out there but like I always say, he's out there.
787 is James Weinert, son of former National Champion Jimmy Weinert seen to the right.