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Some from the Phoenix Park Races
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Here’s two shots I took from the F3000 car with the Nigel Mansell/Williams livery, comments are welcome :)
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Welcome to the forum :)
Two good shots and examples of panning. The first is better than the second, which suffers from softness. Nicely exposed (perhaps a touch under?) and they both give a nice sense of movement. Unfortunately though there’s nothing dramatic or unique about them, so they just seem uninteresting to me.
hey Dimy, great to see you’ve broadened your horizons ;) Welcome to the forum. I like the first, do you do much motorsport photography?
Hey Ali, I signed up on this forum some months ago but never posted here. As boards was down this morning I had an excuse to come here :)
I’m a huge motorsports fan but this was the first time I took pictures of a motorsports even with a SLR camera. For next year I’ll bring myself a monopod though, it was difficult doing handheld… a faster lens would help as well, but don’t have the budget yet ;-) I did these with the cheapo Sigma 70-300 APO.
I agree with Ciaran that theyre good examples of panning. Ive never really shot anything like this so I cant offer much critique.
Look good to my eye though!
Hi,
1st shot isn’t bad. You need to be careful about where the car is sharp. It looks like the sidepod is sharp…you really want the drivers helmet sharp.
2nd shot isn’t great. It looks soft, which to me, means I wouldn’t ever select it. You also need to watch your background, the white tyre wall is a bit distracting.
As a tip, you should watch your framing. Both pictures have the car in the centre of the frame. For me a pan always works better when the car is low in the frame…bottom 1/3.
Also, regards the monopod. It’s easier to pan with cars without using a monopod. Even when using a 500mm lens, if panning I’ll always handhold the lens. It’s better to just keep practicing panning without a monopod!good luck
mark
Nice shots Dimy. Can I make one suggestion for the next time and that is to try to make the background as neutral as possible. In the first shot the horizontal lines are a little distracting and in the second that white tyre cluster is also a little distracting too. I know this can be very difficult to do especially when you are panning very fast cars but if you can pick your spot that is clean beforehand it can really make the difference. I would totally agree with the comment about the monopod. It will be useless for panning. The only benefit it would bring is if you are shooting a car that isnt moving at a long distance. Very good job considering you were using that Sigma which wouldnt be the best for the AF demands of fast cars.
Here is a shot i took about 2 years ago in Phoenix Park. Nothing special about it and I would imagine it would be easier to shoot than an F3000 :wink:
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Very good job considering you were using that Sigma which wouldnt be the best for the AF demands of fast cars.
Thanks for the comments, the AF is indeed very slow…. I was actually using manual focus… I focused my camera before the shot, panned the car and clicked when the car reached the spot I focused on. It’s a useful workaround for a slow lens… :)
I like the horizontal lines….presumably a fence. But because the shutter speed is slow, the fence just becomes lines. Fine by me! Not a brilliant example below (I took it at Indy in July)…but you get the message…a fence becoming lines!! As long as the shutter speed is slow enough, it adds a bit to the image I think. That’s my take on it anyway! That’s photography, some will like your pictures, others wont…that’s why its great!
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