Rip Me Apart Please (Motocross)

48 photos · December 21, 2009

Here are some shots of this past season...

I shoot with a Mark III, 70-200 2.8 IS, and 17-40 f/4.

Give me some feedback. I also have a speedlite. its an older one if that does anything...

Basically what i can do or try... rip me apart please.

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Jonnyyaya · December 21, 2009

Great work...

nw scout · December 21, 2009

I don't see any images

crazy7photography · December 21, 2009

Basically what i can do or try... rip me apart please.

Please ou have some great shots. I few could be satutrated in photoshop but it looked like you were going for that look on those.
The only thing you can try is a crisp image of the subject with a blurred background. Do it by panning the camera on the subject and slowing down the shutter speed a tad. Good luck.

Nwestrnr · December 21, 2009

The wheels are to blurry and there eyes are to sharp

J/K.. Looks like your achieving the results your after those are great shots with some creative angles and good use of wide angle also

run_kmc · December 21, 2009

Nicely done. I can't add anything to most of them.

On the images where you have more background, I would personally try to get it a little more blurred. If that means slower shutter speed/more panning or a wider aperture, I don't know, but they're all better than I would have done.

kres · December 21, 2009

Aaaaah, near and dear to my heart.

1 suggestion for other shots to get - your current composure and technical control is very crisp on your freeze frames:

Get messy - Really try to blur it up to give a strong feeling of movement, most of your stuff is static - frozen in time. With your talent at capturing this sport, I'd LOVE to see you try to get a good tracking shot off. Kinda like this:

48 photos · December 22, 2009

Kinda like this one you mean but in a corner?

kres · December 22, 2009

Sorta -

Crank the ISO low. Like 100 or lower, keep you aperture wide, and pre-set the lens to what you think the distance is between you and the bikes - saving autofoucus time.

Track the bikes with the camera with your whole body (swiveling with your torso) and start to set the autofocus just at the point that your almost facing forward again, then let the shutter rip.

That's going to REALLY blur out the background and give the impression of speed. I can already tell that you've got a good sense of where the bikes are tracking - so once you get the timing down I can see you ripping off some amazing shots. It's really good stuff when you can catch some rooster tail coming off the bike in crisp focus and then leaving the subject into the DOF.

Again, just a suggestion of another kind of shot to try out. Besides straight aways, you can get some really cool perspectives standing in the elbow of a turn of above a berm.

nw scout · December 22, 2009

How are you guys seeing these?
I still see nothing from the first post.
No link, no pics, nothing

I see the other pics people have posted in this thread but nothing on the first one.

craig_d · December 22, 2009

nw scout wrote:

How are you guys seeing these?
I still see nothing from the first post.
No link, no pics, nothing
I see the other pics people have posted in this thread but nothing on the first one.

He's not posting images the usual way, but instead using some sort of slide-show object. If you have Flash disabled, you won't see anything.

I find the slide-show object annoying, because although it has three speed settings, it does not have a "stop" option. So even at "slow", I find it changing pictures by itself while I'm trying to examine an image, which is just irritating. The pictures aren't very large, either.

48 photos · December 22, 2009

Sorry guys. There actually is a stop on the slideshow. you just gotta click the big image.

Sorry about not being able to see the shots! Here is my original gallery for you guys to look at(these are the same pics as the slideshow but you can view larger)

http://48photos.smugmug.com/Other/2009-Recap/10653051_7KAFF#741212677_YCfX7

j-bo · December 23, 2009

Great stuff, you don't need any help. Don't worry about the panning shots, just a few is enough in MX.

Rip Me Apart Please (Motocross)

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