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From yesterday at Nutts Corner:
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Have LOADS more to process yet….
Nice sharp set of images.
# 6 with the diagonal framed shot is the one for me.Pat
Good sharp images. however you need to work on your DOF to truly make the images realy stand out .
Sharp (except no.1) nice light. Good job…I found karting to be extremely hard to shoot, they’re so small & fast!! DOF is fine IMO, just need bigger lens (maybe) and corner without a barrier in the background, then they’ll stand out more….nothing you could do about that.
was using my sigma 50-500mm, but they were quite close to me at this corner, so no need to zoom in that much.
Have another 377 raw files to process yet :D
sigma 50-500mm
that’d explain it…300/400/500mm at F4 would make them stand out slightly more. But that’s a (good) problem with karting, you can stand so close and go anywhere even run across the track during the racing… it’s great that way!!
You might get a better effect shooting f/5.6 or lower (f/3.5) to get much more of a bokeh effect.
I was going to ask what lens you were using, already answered.
A 70-200 f2.8 lens would be a better option for the carts, the lens it’s self lends to a shorter DOF than the 50 -500 does.
I’m going again in 2 weeks, so forgive me if Im asking silly q’s, but are you guys saying I have too much in focus? That I could do with a narrowed dof?
Cheers
have a look at your metering points, maybe there is too much metering going on in the frane (metering everything). I dont know if you are using spot metering? if not give it a go. It will select the center of the cart and driver and narrow the dof of the rest of the frame.
Shoot manual, and you dont have to worry about all that metering (once you get the correct exposure). You can be on f4 or whatever constantly – as long as the light is the same, as in the karting stuff.
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