Steel City 07 National Motocross

schrox

I took quite a few photos of the Steel City National Motocross in Delmont, PA this past weekend. Here's one.

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Another one:

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One more:

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Well, maybe another one:

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2whlrcr

Gee, was it muddy there?

The MX'ers around here would never race in those conditions, it might scratch thier graffics.

Nice shots.

brncr6

Good shots
Number 3 looks like a oil painting almost.

amadeus

schrox wrote:

I took quite a few photos of the Steel City National Motocross in Delmont, PA this past weekend. Here's one.

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curious to know what kind of camera you were using and if you used the sports setting or full manual?

schrox

Thanks for the compliments 2whlrcr and brncr6.

amadeus,

I used a Canon Rebel XT with a Tamron 55-200 lens.
I used Aperture Priority mode and set it to f/8 for sharpness. I started with the ISO at 100, but that made the shutter speed to slow, although picture #4 was one of the results of the ISO set to 100. I then set it 400 and left it there. I set the White balance for either daylight or cloudy, depending on what the sun was doing, I haven't started shooting in RAW yet. I used mostly manual focus, I focused on a section of the track and tried to keep the camera there when the riders went by.

schrox

I wanted to add a few more pictures. Hope you enjoy. Please feel free to offer comments.

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amadeus

posts 9, 10 and 12 just don't seem right. very choppy on the edges of the subject and even the subject. wierd because the other ones are pretty good. can never have too many MX posts. keep it up.

schrox

amadeus wrote:

posts 9, 10 and 12 just don't seem right. very choppy on the edges of the subject and even the subject. wierd because the other ones are pretty good. can never have too many MX posts. keep it up.

Thanks for the comments amadeus. I think the choppy look is mainly the result of compressing the files for posting. The full size files look fine.

j-bo

Most of them look oversharpened to me. Good action though!

Hikin' Mike

Delmont?? I used to live in Murrysville!! Small world.

Nice pics!

wxwax

I like #4 a lot!

xtnomad

Mud Mud Mud THAT IS MX. I like # 1

schrox

Thanks for the comments/compliments.

j-bo, I like to apply the Unsharp Mask when I'm finished editing a picture, I like the way it makes a picture pop. The full size pictures actually look better.
Do you have any recommendations for sharpening pictures?

j-bo

I use NN. This happens a lot when mud is in the photo. A lot of the times, the camera focuses on the mud and your rider is a little soft. So our natural tendency is to sharpen it up to get the rider sharper, then we end up oversharpening the rest of the photo.

When roost is in the photo, I try my hardest to make sure Im on the rider and hope that the camera doesn't focus on the mud/roost. This will mae the rider sharper and leave the roost somewhat blurry, but so what! It's the rider we are interested in eh?

Here's some from Freestone Nat. I'll include a couple roost shots and it will hopefully explain myself better.

This is to the extreme end of things where the roost is too yucky.




A little better:

KRFamiliar

schrox wrote:

I took quite a few photos of the Steel City National Motocross in Delmont, PA this past weekend. Here's one.

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looks cool, but too much sharpening in pp, so much so, it hurts to look at it.