Demons of Speed

[BBJ]

Hi All here is a few pics from this weekends racing. 3 days of racing, some 700+ pics later and glad it's all over for the month, 3 out of 4 weekends spent at the track and now can have a few weeks off.
Cheers
John
BBJ

[mudder]

#1,3,4 give a good sensation of speed, sharp but with well blurred spokes... #2 is great to see the riders face, that's terrific, bold colours and really sharp...

Great bike racing shots...

[christiand]

BBJ,

you are getting better and better at these shots !
Keep on going and show us more.

Cheers
CD

[Mal]

BBJ I have new respect for your pictures after trying for the past week to get decent shot of the Holden Racing Team at the Royal Easter Show. Hard yakka!!! Great shots, love them. Hope the riders do to and buy up big time

[BBJ]

Thanks mudder and CD, Yes well i have a lot of these shots, just need to get a faster lens really as these were taken with the 80-400 but yeh get a few that just are not in focus and i did manage to get a shot of a bike going down but yeh focus was a bit slow and so was i and the first shot of the rider hitting the deck was outa focus, oh well i make do with what i got for now. LOL
Cheers
John

[Manta]

Outstanding workmanship John. You have certainly nailed these ones. I suppose it's easy for us to sit back and jealously drool over these when we didn't have to sift through 700+ shots. I admire your tenacity and your obvious talent. I wonder how many of those shots would have been considered keepers by the rest of us?

Keep it up.

[darb]

great action shots mate, and even dared to go a bit sloewr it would seem to capture the wheels nicely. (not easy on a superbike!)

[BBJ]

Simon, i guess i have been lucky but on average out of 300 shots i might throw away 10 so i think that is very good, all these shots would have been great if only focus speed was the problem and slightly out. I have noticed on certain colours of bikes that some are harder to focus than others. Black is a bit testing at times but yeh on average i have a very good loss rate and one i am happy with as i hear other say out of a 100 shots they keep 5 or so and i would be looking at why they loose so many.
It is hard to sometime frame the shot as they are doing great rate of knots and 1 blink and you miss it and sometimes i do cut tires off a bit but then i might make a different photo out of it. But not that i need to do that as i dont play with them unless someone wants to buy them. But you can do different things like thatif you wish and sometimes can make a good a good picture.

[sirhc55]

John - what can I say You are nailing those speed machines with ease and quality

[BBJ]

Thanks Chris, I try and well cant wait to get an F/2.8 lens like the sigma might be a bit faster on the focus, there was a pro there with a 300 F/2.8 lens and well yeh big lens a bit like Robs 200-400 in size but yeh. Soon i hope to get that sigma soon. Thanks
Cheers
John

[yeocsa]

Thanks Chris, I try and well cant wait to get an F/2.8 lens like the sigma might be a bit faster on the focus, there was a pro there with a 300 F/2.8 lens and well yeh big lens a bit like Robs 200-400 in size but yeh. Soon i hope to get that sigma soon. Thanks
Cheers
John

Superd panning. Like all those shots.

regards,

Arthur

[sirhc55]

John - the Sigma 70-200 has amazingly fast focussing and quite as the graveyard at midnight

[KerryPierce]

Very cool shots, John. Those take more than a little bit of skill....

[BBJ]

Thanks Kerry, and All, yes well i spend a bit of time doing them and there is different parts of the track that gives great shots so that why i take so many, i am not limited to standing in 1 spot and i have free run of the track so there is lots of different pics i can get at some corners and so on.
My biggest problem is focus speed, if a picture is no good it's because it is OOF, and you miss good shots like this one.

It focussed for the other shots but the first one was all of a sudden, but cant win them all. But i have fun doing it anyhow.
Cheers
John

[mic]

Gees, As if the pressure isn't enough on these Speed Demons

When they have a stack theres some Photog right there with a big Club of a lens ready & waiting.

Great shots BBJ.

Mic.

[BBJ]

Thanks Mic, yeh well would have been better if was in focus, and always seems that the action happens when you have moved from that corner to another. But the 80-400 isn't as big as the 300 f/2.8 the pro fella was carrying. I would love 1 of them but yeh not enough $$$
who knows oneday might get lucky. LOL

[redline]

Great stuff,
keep up the good work John.
i didn't realise you were in mt gamblier, i could have came by for a vist over the easter weekend.