First Motocross Outing

pnphoto

I have been shooting a fair bit of sports, but this was my first motocross day.

A bit of panning:


Small tracks you can get close:


More panning:


Some less traditional action:


Comments most welcome!

pnphoto

Forgot to add this one - as my wife told the kids, a lot of crazy combined with a lot of talent.

nipprdog

Very well done for a first timer, Peter. I checked out more of them on your site. some of the crops were so tight, it limits what size they could order. some of them seemed cropped to fit 8x10, but wouldn't work in a 4x6,5x7,8x12,12x18. just curious, is that intentional to keep them from ordering small pics?

pnphoto

No intention on limiting what people can order, I just like the crops 8x10 on motocross, seems to fit better especially for the side on shots.

Good suggestion though where I should allow room for folks to order the more popular sizes and crop. Never thought of that.

Have you in the past just cropped looser to allow the byer to crop or provided two versions of each?

Skippy

pnphoto wrote:

I have been shooting a fair bit of sports, but this was my first motocross day.

A bit of panning:
Small tracks you can get close:
More panning:
Some less traditional action:
Comments most welcome!

These are excellent for a first time Shoot at Motor Cross
The image you added later with the Rider off his bike in mid air is awesome!
Your Panning paid off, well done! .... Skippy
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nipprdog

pnphoto wrote:

Have you in the past just cropped looser to allow the byer to crop or provided two versions of each?

I try to do as little cropping as possible, mainly because its too time consuming. for example, I shot 200 pics at last nights baseball game. I had to crop 3 or 4 of the outfield shots, but all of the others(infield and at bat) are posted full-frame(shooting with a 300f4). when I crop, I do it in 4x6 aspect ratio, so they will be the same as the other full frames, and it offers more sizes available to the buyer.

I plan to shoot a MX race this weekend. I'll be using my 80-200(and maybe my 50), instead of the 300. depending on where I shoot from, I might have to do some cropping, but I'll try to keep it to a minimum.

jbr13

The problem I run into is that cropping to 4X6 makes it harder to get an 8X10 if you want one. It takes more off of the pictures ends that way. Either way you loose part of your picture.

nipprdog wrote:

I try to do as little cropping as possible, mainly because its too time consuming. for example, I shot 200 pics at last nights baseball game. I had to crop 3 or 4 of the outfield shots, but all of the others(infield and at bat) are posted full-frame(shooting with a 300f4). when I crop, I do it in 4x6 aspect ratio, so they will be the same as the other full frames, and it offers more sizes available to the buyer.

I plan to shoot a MX race this weekend. I'll be using my 80-200(and maybe my 50), instead of the 300. depending on where I shoot from, I might have to do some cropping, but I'll try to keep it to a minimum.

F45

Peter,

Very very nice work. The pans are excellent too.
Might I suggest a touch more contrast and/or color saturation?
I realize the weather dictates the lighting in most cases but there is room here for little more juice (just my opinion).

Keep it up mate

xtnomad

Looks Good. keep shooting.

gsgary

Great shot for your first time, have you tried a bit of flash the riders don't usualy mind, in the jump shots try and show some ground then people can see how high these guy's jump hope you don't mind this is 1/60 with touch of flash

pnphoto

Great advice gang, thanks!

Definitely will try some changes next outing.

Dupont24

Nice photos everybody.