Some ATV mud bogging.

Toshido

Haldimand, ontario. The Haldimand and Ontario ATVclubs had an ATV expo. ATV pulling contest, kinda dull, and mud bogging. As well of course dealers set up all over the p[lace.

Was there with family so it was simply a learning experience for me. Taking pictures with one eye, the other keeping track of my 4 year old.

Made a whole lot of mistakes, most fixed reasonably with post, but many time too much cropping to fix So would love some feedback from people with some dirt and mud experience. Hoping to get out and do some motocross shooting this year.

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More from the day can be seen at here.

b08rsa

First shot really gave me a feeling that I was swimming in Mud. Nice shot.

Ron A.

Erbeman

Well, lets see. I looked at your album and the first thing that I noticed was that I don't imagine that you are using a CP filter are you? This would have helped cut down all of that glare from the top of the mud as well as given a bit more saturation to the colors. I think maybe you should also have tried to really slow the shutter down in a few to show the tires spinning with mud flying. Most all of the photos are from the same position. Get some different angles. In alot of them, it looked as if you were shooting towards the light. Try to always keep the light at your back, this for one will keep the subject in the light. It will also keep the sky from looking white. I wasn't there so I don't have a clue as to the conditions you had. Maybe you did the very best with what you had. I am not saying that you did anything wrong. I'm just suggesting things that I would have tried to do. But, take that with a grain of salt, as I'm no authority on ATV mudbogging by any means. Either way, thanks for sharing your album.

rhondavid

Mom is not gonna be happy with mud all over their clothes:D

Nice set.

Toshido

Erbeman wrote:

Well, lets see. I looked at your album and the first thing that I noticed was that I don't imagine that you are using a CP filter are you? This would have helped cut down all of that glare from the top of the mud as well as given a bit more saturation to the colors. I think maybe you should also have tried to really slow the shutter down in a few to show the tires spinning with mud flying. Most all of the photos are from the same position. Get some different angles. In alot of them, it looked as if you were shooting towards the light. Try to always keep the light at your back, this for one will keep the subject in the light. It will also keep the sky from looking white. I wasn't there so I don't have a clue as to the conditions you had. Maybe you did the very best with what you had. I am not saying that you did anything wrong. I'm just suggesting things that I would have tried to do. But, take that with a grain of salt, as I'm no authority on ATV mudbogging by any means. Either way, thanks for sharing your album.

These shots were done around 2 pm in direct BRIGHT sunlight. So not really possible to get sun at my back, it was pretty much overhead and did I mention bright. All four of us left there with sunburns

I completely forgot and did not think about putting on a CP. Makes sense with glare off the mud and water.

I did try to slow the shutter down a bit, but did I mention it was bright? I was already overexposing everything by close to a full stop. Mostly on purpose though to get at the faces and knowing I could tone it down a lot in post, shooting RAW rocks.

Positions were rough. Since I was acting dad first, photographer second, I was not moving much and staying accessible to my wife with stroller and my 4 year old. These wee basically taken in two locations. Small set of stands, I stood on the back row. The better position, imo, was on the ground shooting through a fence, just a wooden thing no obstructions to the lens.

Thanks for the comments.

One of the problems I did have, and not notice till post. It seemed that no matter what the orientation, portrait/landscape I had it wrong:( So too many of these pictures were shot portrait then cropped landscape.
Also more of these work nicer in a 8x10 crop. I try to do my original cropping keeping it the same aspect as the camera produces though.