Motorsport Photography

frostie500

When I saw Paddy@CIRL's post on the Circuit of Ireland Rally I thought that I'd post a few of my own motorsport images from the last month or so to get some feedback!

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magicbastarder

i'm kinda dizzy from all the skewed angles!

dirtyghettokid

them ..the bike ones especially

ronanc15

Love the bike ones, especially the first Yamaha

frostie500

magicbastarder wrote: »

i'm kinda dizzy from all the skewed angles!

Personal preference but I always struggle to get a sense of speed with a normal POV angle. Its something that Ive been working on so hopefully at the next couple of races I can master it!

AnimalRights

Composition wise they are good....but I think they could be a bit sharper, especially the car ones....what equipment did you use?

frostie500

AnimalRights wrote: »

Composition wise they are good....but I think they could be a bit sharper, especially the car ones....what equipment did you use?

What do you mean by sharper? Is it go get the shot a bit more in focus?

I got a Canon 60D last year when I was in the US with 55-135 and 135-300mm lenses. Ive only used the camera a couple of times since then (pretty much at the couple of races shown in the examples) so im still trying to get my head back into the settings of an SLR after using a point and shoot digital for a few years.

For the car ones I had loads of problems getting the camera set up right for the light. During the day it was ridiculously bright so a lot of shots were washed out whereas when the sun was setting I found it really hard to get the settings as I wanted them! I need practice I'd imagine!

EDIT: For what its worth here's a link to my flickr account

AnimalRights

Yes to sharper....I don't look at Flickr, it's a horrible set up/site.
I prefer Pix.ie

Ur Camera equipment is what I thought...u've out grown it, You have far to much talent for it.

My opinion ofc :cool:

frostie500

AnimalRights wrote: »

Ur Camera equipment is what I thought...u've out grown it, You have far to much talent for it.

My opinion ofc :cool:

Im happy with the shots but dont think Id go that far! Thanks though!

inkedpt

The second is my favourite, I like the crop the sharpness the angle and the back-fire for a bonus!
I also like the angles and the fact you keep your camera align when there are several bikes/cars on the frame but IMO you went to far on nº 11 - the blue porche braking.

Cheers!

thefly

Bikes are class

smash

Nice shots. It's been ages since I've been track side, must get back into it again.

kelly1

First 3 bike shots are great. Not sure about the angles though.

foamcutter

Nice locations Sebring and Qatar, beats a wet and miserable Mondello or Bishopscourt any day. ;-)
I like the fire spitting Lorenzo shot, good capture.

leche solara

I think you need to do some panning on the car shots to give the sense of movement, some of them look like they're parked.

frostie500

Thanks for the feedback everyone, really appreciate it! Still trying to get my head around what to do with the camera etc so hopefully by the next race I go to Ill make some improvements!

foamcutter wrote: »

Nice locations Sebring and Qatar, beats a wet and miserable Mondello or Bishopscourt any day. ;-)
I like the fire spitting Lorenzo shot, good capture.

Yeah Ive been lucky to get to some pretty good races so far this year and another few coming up in the next while too!

leche solara wrote: »

I think you need to do some panning on the car shots to give the sense of movement, some of them look like they're parked.

Yeah I find that its pretty tough with the quicker shutter speeds to get a sense of movement on some of the images but in the full collections I have a lot of panning shots that are similar to the bikes in this selection, just wanted to give a few examples in this selection!

Logie-1

Nice locations Sebring and Qatar, beats a wet and miserable Mondello or Bishopscourt any day. ;-)

I only live 1 mile from Bishopscourt, if anyone is ever heading up here I would love to meet up.

Paul.

OpenShutter

Great work Frostie. Keep it up, If your close enough to the action, as your panning maybe under expose the image a little and pop a flash at the end when the shutter closes. (Rear curtain sync), some lovely effects with that.