Action Photos

DeaconDeacon Registered Users Posts: 239 Major grins
edited January 28, 2004 in The Dgrin Challenges
The new D2H on order, expect it will make these types of shots easier and quicker. Up to 44 images in buffer and 8 fps will capture some nice stuff.

Turn 9 at Portland International Raceway

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Great idea Baldy, looking forward to another great site!

Deacon :clap:

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    oh man, this is some great action. really really nice.
    Deacon wrote:
    The new D2H on order, expect it will make these types of shots easier and quicker. Up to 44 images in buffer and 8 fps will capture some nice stuff.

    Turn 9 at Portland International Raceway

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    Great idea Baldy, looking forward to another great site!

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  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited January 9, 2004
    Here's the finest action shot I've ever seen. I dare you to top it....

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  • MarcMarc Registered Users Posts: 37 Big grins
    edited January 9, 2004
    Baldy wrote:
    Here's the finest action shot I've ever seen. I dare you to top it....
    I'd say "holy cow!" but that would be too obvious. Mine is a bit more sedate:

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  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited January 10, 2004
    Wow, that's pretty good, Marc. Is that Mean Joe Green doing the rushing? Nice that the 70-200 of yours on a 10D is actually more like 320... Man I love that lens.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2004
    Baldy wrote:
    Here's the finest action shot I've ever seen. I dare you to top it....

    Not trying to be sick, but given the enormity of the event, this one might be a topper.

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    There are a bunch of WTC explosion shots here that are terrrible yet beautiful.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2004
    I hadn't seen this one before.

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  • LoadedagainLoadedagain Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins
    edited January 10, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    I hadn't seen this one before.
    wow! absolutely brilliant shot. never seen it before.
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,936 moderator
    edited January 11, 2004
    From a local head race.

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,936 moderator
    edited January 11, 2004
    Baldy wrote:
    Here's the finest action shot I've ever seen. I dare you to top it....

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    So were you running and shooting and praying when you took this one?

    Me? I'd be doing all that plus some :eh:
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  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2004
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    8fps is really nice. There is a nice series of shots here.
  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited January 11, 2004
    Whoa, that's a hard shot to take... So much action blur on the wheels and background but none on the body of the bike. What lens/shutter speed?
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  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2004
    Baldy wrote:
    Whoa, that's a hard shot to take... So much action blur on the wheels and background but none on the body of the bike. What lens/shutter speed?

    I will have to look up the EXIF data. I do not remember the shutter speed. I was out having fun so I kept lowering the shutter speed to get the right blur. I know it was on my 1D with the 70-200. I also used the 1.4 extender some that day.
  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited January 11, 2004
    I shot some historic cars at Laguna Seca this year and used the 70-200 (no extender). I couldn't see well enough on the little LCD, even zooming up, to tell if the body was sharp enough versus having enough motion blur, so I experimented.

    I dunno how to guess how fast these cars were going but they were approaching quite a hairpin, so I'd guess 60-70??

    Here's 1/125:

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    Here's a 250th (doesn't look as good imo):

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    By the time it was 1/350, it was really starting to lose it. mo:

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    In the beginning, I had left the camera in program mode and it chose 1/1000th. Ugh. Looks like it's parked. Nice car, tho:

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  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2004
    Baldy wrote:
    Whoa, that's a hard shot to take... So much action blur on the wheels and background but none on the body of the bike. What lens/shutter speed?

    It was shot at 1/256 sec @ f/16 with the 1.4x extender and 1.3 camera multiplier I would say about 250mm. The shot is cropped probably about 50% too. I need some big glass. I have a very long list a 400/2.8 would be great. The bikes were smokin' fast passing this spot they were tough to track.
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2004
    You guys with yer fancy gear... I was at the track when Patch took his excellent tight shots of the bikes... no way I could keep up. But I was lucky enough to get this.

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  • kbasakbasa Registered Users Posts: 64 Big grins
    edited January 13, 2004
    I wish I'd managed to capture a little more road blur on this one.

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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2004
    kbasa wrote:
    I wish I'd managed to capture a little more road blur on this one.
    something like this?
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  • kbasakbasa Registered Users Posts: 64 Big grins
    edited January 13, 2004
    fish wrote:
    something like this?

    Kinda. I was hoping for a more blurred road surface and having the greenery sort of flow into a big blur. Ideally, the bike in the middle of the photo would stay relatively sharp.
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  • KC ActionKC Action Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited January 14, 2004
    This shot was taken at the IHBA MArble Falls Drag Boat Nationals at Marble Falls, Texas. The Big Trouble Top Alcohol Flatbottom is "wheelstanding" just past the start line on a 180mph pass. 190896.jpg
  • Richard CabesaRichard Cabesa Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2004
    The bull takes the cake for action shots but I was amazed I got this with the camera I had at the time.

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  • jimfjimf Registered Users Posts: 338 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2004
    That was an AP photo
    Baldy wrote:
    Here's the finest action shot I've ever seen. I dare you to top it....

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    This was a photo that went out on the AP wire. It's one of my all-time favorites. I'd love to talk to the photographer to find out what happened afterward :-).

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  • KC ActionKC Action Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited January 22, 2004
    Amazing the sharpness of the dog's head with all the blurring from the movement.


    Here is another from Marble Falls Lake Fest. The image is cropped from the original. I had just walked up to the spectator area when the Plum Krazy Top Alcohol Flat did a very impressive "wheelstand" and came completely out of the water. As you can tell from the closed throttle butterflies this was not the desired launch the driver was after.
  • Richard CabesaRichard Cabesa Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2004
    KC Action wrote:
    Amazing the sharpness of the dog's head with all the blurring from the movement.
    .

    I cropped that a little and printed to 8x10 and from the dogs eyes to nose are very crisp. Makes her look like she was haulin butt, which she was. Just luck and an example of what spending 2 hours and taking about a 100 shots can produce. That's why I love digital, no cost to thow out 90 of them. Though no action, here is another from the same day.
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  • amadeusamadeus Registered Users Posts: 2,125 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2004
    action
    intense action

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  • knaryknary Registered Users Posts: 61 Big grins
    edited January 28, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    You guys with yer fancy gear... I was at the track when Patch took his excellent tight shots of the bikes... no way I could keep up. But I was lucky enough to get this.

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    holy crap.
    wow.

    Stunning amazing - fill in more words of wonder - photo. The movement in the shapes and marks of the static objects versus the crisp solidity of the bike&rider, the odd bent space...simply beautiful.
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  • Stunt ClownStunt Clown Registered Users Posts: 58 Big grins
    edited January 28, 2004
    My best action shot (so far...)
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