A few motorcross shots from today

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A few motorcross shots from today

Postby Shoot on Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:19 am

A few from the Lakes Australian Rookie Series Motorcross that Keith and I attended today.
All taken with the 70-200/2.8. Was shooting mainly at 2.8 but now that I look through my photo's perhaps I should have been stopping down some as a LOT of the photos were not as sharp as I had hoped. I think that the AI SERVO autofocus struggled somewhat to keep up.

What do you guys think of these?

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Re: A few motorcross shots from today

Postby Dave-D40 on Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:26 am

Pics look good , #4 doesnt do much though, Like you say a bit sharper or more colour would help maybe.
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Re: A few motorcross shots from today

Postby Shoot on Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:12 am

The reason that I included #4 was because really I wanted to include some shots that are not just of a 'Bike in the sky' and try and compose an image with balanced ground elements and not just a stand alone Bike. I think I've achieved that in #4 with the diagonals of the tire walls and how he's using the groove, I was also thinking of perhaps cloning out the guy in the bottom right also.
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Re: A few motorcross shots from today

Postby firsty on Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:53 pm

Rob
It is not as easy as some people make it look, I'm throwing away most of the shots I took
As learning experience, I found that I still have lots to learn :)
#3 looks like one of your flash shots and you managed to get better focus than I did from the same area

posting a few of my ones now
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