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Took these at the Roberts Cove Hill Climb last week,
3 months into photography, advice welcome
Yep – 3 well presented shots. Now, we need to look at what you want to achieve and see do they meet the need. I was flicking through a book that I bought called “Our World Now” issued by the Reuters photographers. On the introduction page the quote was “…where once magazines may have printed a series of photos to tell a story, now it is ever more that the image must encapsulate the essence of the story”. OK, we’re not in Reuters but read the statement again in reference to your images. The first and third are shots of “here’s Paddy Murphy on his bike”. The middle one has the essence of “here’s Paddy Murphy taking the bend at Doyles corner in his Imijami 750 in the Robers Coave Hill Climb” (you can tell I’m not a bike fan). Frame your images with potential for greater viewing appeal and you’ll get just that.
Technically I’d look at sharpening but that would be, as someone else described as a [chandler]can open, worms everywhere![/chandler] moment.Alan.
Its not easy to get a good if not a great shot,for me at least.You get out what you put into something. Your three shots depict good action,biker no. 169 in particular as Alan already highlighted is in my view very good.Good work. Flipsake…
the first one is by far the best pic fills the frame in focus nice colours on the bike u can see the bales so u know its not a local mup comming round a corner on a road bike
the rider also looks like he is working hard on the bike people will tell u should slow u speed and have a slightly blurred image CRAP its a perfect sharp image and everyone one knows the rider is working hard.
Well done
Ger
Gerl wrote:
people will tell u should slow u speed and have a slightly blurred image CRAP its a perfect sharp image and everyone one knows the rider is working hard
That said though when it comes to motorsport photography panning is an important technique to nail, so to me the key to a striking motorsport image is a blurred background with a sharp rider. If you use a fast shutter speed then its quite easy to nail a rider as long as you time it right, and you can get a very sharp image. But a sharp image (throughout the whole frame) is very static, everything is frozen in time. Compare this to a panned shot at a slow shutter speed and you can get a sharp bike with rider but the background is blurred along with the wheels and brake discs – this gives the ultimate sense of speed and action in my opinion.
LB – out of the photos I think the first one is the obvious pick of the bunch. The rider/bike are nicely exposed and the depth of field is pretty good. It would have been cool if you had of hit the shutter just a fraction of a second earlier as from his body position it almost looks as if his shoulder would have been close to scrubbing that hay bale! I think the second shot has potential as well though, as it contains an element that I love seeing in road racing photos – the riders eyes. If you had of just had a slightly lower perspective looking up into the rider slightly more and maybe cropped in a bit closer it could have been a more striking shot.
I hope this helps and doesnt sound too negative, as I say they are pretty good shots that are heading in the right direction, I just think with a few subtle changes at time of shooting you could give the shots even more impact. Motorsports are always tricky to shoot though and I often find I end up with even fewer “keepers” than normal out of the hundreds you can easily reel off at an all day event :)
Blurred out pics is the most over used thing in motorsport. Get it right and its magic get it wrong and it just looks like u f ed up the pic.
Thats my point
Ger
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