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zed · May 22, 2006

I have not been able to shoot any motorsports since MotoGP at Laguna last year :cry . It's been a long time coming, but it was nice to finally get out there and start blowing out the cob webs. Here are a few that I liked from the weekend. Feel free to comment.

Jeff

Hodgson gettin his mojo working.

Maladin on a hot lap

Show off...

This guy was spinning the rear tire for the last 5 laps through turn 2.

I think Ben won everything he raced in this weekend. Plus set(or tied) a record for 6 wins in a row in the Superbike class.

Chandler through turn 2.

wxwax · May 22, 2006

Excellent pics, Jeff.

Looks like you changed locations quite a bit, too.

Jeffro · May 22, 2006

Nice shots But it looks like it's time to clean the sensor! One spot on the right...saw it other shots on your site too....don't you hate that?

xtnomad · May 22, 2006

Great Shots
Like them all

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zed · May 22, 2006

Thanks for the comments all...You're right Jeffro, time for a sensor cleaning..

Jeff

adrian_k · May 23, 2006

cool

love the show off & 'grass tracking on a superbike'

zed wrote:

I have not been able to shoot any motorsports since MotoGP at Laguna last year :cry . It's been a long time coming, but it was nice to finally get out there and start blowing out the cob webs. Here are a few that I liked from the weekend. Feel free to comment.

Jeff

CookieS · May 24, 2006

All of them are very Nice, show off is my favorite too. any spec details , to the shots you can share ?

zed · May 24, 2006

Thanks AdrianK and CookieS. CookieS, As I said in the beginning, I had not been to this track in a while, so most of Saturday was just experimentation. I reviewed them that night in hopes of a little more success rate on Sunday. The "Show off" shot was shot in shutter priority at 1/800 and f7.1 at ISO 200. Here are a few shots of riders coming down the same straight.

This guy is going about 100-130 mph.
Settings were 1/800 f7.1 ISO200. Still has some blurr to the wheels.

Under heavy braking here and beginning a quick right left sequence of turns. He is going about 50-75 mph.
Settings were: 1/640 f5.6 ISO 100. Still some blurr to the wheels...maybe not as much as the first shot, so I could have slowed more.

This one is coming out of the left hander of the "bus stop" sequence I was talking about. One of the slower parts of the track. He's going about 30-50 mph.
Settings: 1/250 f8.0 ISO100

All were shot on shutter priority with my 20D and the 100-400 "dust pump".:D

The shot of the guy spinning his tire was at 1/1000 f5.6 ISO200. Any head on shots(or straight behind), I would bump up the shutter speed and adjust the ISO as needed to get the aperature as large as possible, to let in as much light as I could to try to help it focus faster and keep the DOF as short as possible. I was not worried about the blurr of the wheels, because you cannot see anything moving anyway.

Another head on shot. Another slow part of the track...1/640 f5.6 ISO100. I could have shot it at 1/1000 or more and you would not be able to tell. f5.6 is the max aperature my lens will go, so if I wanted to bump up the shutter speed and still have the correct exposure I would have needed to change the ISO to 200 or 400.

Hope these are the kind of details you asking about...:D

Jeff

ian408 · May 25, 2006

Jeff,

Some nice piccies. I liked the show-off one. I saw that today on the way
back from lunch...A much nicer stand-up wheelie

Since I can't wheelie very well, this is something I love to see. Not to
mention the track is the place for that stuff.

Ian

CookieS · May 25, 2006

OH MY, Yes thanks, Im always intested in getting the most out of my 20D, I always end up using my center focus point, Im wondering if you have others set , seems hard to recompose with all the fast panning, Did you use AI servo ??? ( part of testing myself) thanks for bearing with the questions. I may have to start saving for the 100-400.

zed · May 26, 2006

CookieS wrote:

OH MY, Yes thanks, Im always intested in getting the most out of my 20D, I always end up using my center focus point, Im wondering if you have others set , seems hard to recompose with all the fast panning, Did you use AI servo ??? ( part of testing myself) thanks for bearing with the questions. I may have to start saving for the 100-400.

Yes, AI servo and yes again, I did use different focus points depending on where I wanted the bike to be in the frame. And I tried different focus points at the same shooting location just to have the bike composed in different parts of the frame to see what I liked. Yea, I know how it is....it took me a while to save up for the lens too. No worries about the questions...I'm no pro but I don't mind sharing what I have learned.

Jeff

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