Ouch. motorbike crash

[lkgrainger]

Hi a crash series from todays moto ride day. The rider was up and around shortly after may have broken arm or shoulder, will find out more later when he contacts me.

[Matt. K]

Well captured! Now there's a series you could easily sell. Let the bidding begin!

[MATT]

Highside goto love that...

Great capture hopaefully he will see the funny side in a while.


MATT

[redline]

great capture, with the bigma i presume? how is it working for you?(the lenses)

[BBJ]

Leigh, great catch it is not easy to catch these incidents, ones i have caught is always when you dont expect it and when you do get it in a rush they are out of focus, this is where a fast lens helps and maybe a D2x.LOL
But mate you did well i love them.
Cheers

[mudder]

You've done really well to capture a series like this that tells such a dramatic and short-lived event... I whince when I look at #4 & 5...

[lkgrainger]

Yep shots taken with the bigma, I love the lense even though it dosent always capture sharp images in continual focus but I get enough to keep me happy.
I was actually following the bike round the corner (one more image at front of series but a few meters before it started to drift out ) and was about to get ready for the next bike when it happened. thats why there is a bit of a gap between 1 and 2.
There are plenty more pics on my site for those who are into bikes.

Thanks for your comments

[robboh]

All I can say is OUCH! Looks like a pretty classic highside, but that he managed to hang on to the bike for quite a while. Great sequence and nice work capturing it. As the others have pointed out, it all goes very quick when it happens.

[waspo]

Did someone say bikes? These are awesome!! I like #2 capture. That Bigma certinly works for you not to mention your skills.
Nice website you have too. I'll be frequenting it often.
Thanks for posting and keep up the good work!
Cheers, Jase.

[BBJ]

Think i live in the wrong state.LOL Leigh site looks good lots of nice pics and yeh well would be nice to go see the cars at a race meet but oh well i am off to Phillip island for the MotoGP so cant wait.

[waspo]

BBJ, can I tag along?
Can't wait for the MotoGP. I'm hang'n out!

[BBJ]

Jase are you going? I will be going with friends as i am not taking my bike so will be there for a good weekend, i hope. But hey if your going we could always meet up mate for a chinwag, share a few pics at the fence or whatever.I will be there for the 3 days staying over there.

[waspo]

Yes mate, I'm a MotoGP freak!! It would be awesome to hangout with you and pick up a few tips.
I'll give you my details closer to the date.

[BBJ]

Ok Jase no problems we will work it out as time goes by.

[wendellt]

Yikes

the 2nd one is classic, looks liek he is actually running away at terminal velocity!
Well captured!

[Jeff]

Hi Leigh
Great shots ,thanks for sharing
Jeff

[the foto fanatic]

Great action sequence Leigh.
Well done

[waspo]

Leigh, can you tell me what setting you typically use for these types of shoots, like do you shot RAW or JPEG etc.?
Cheers, Jase.

[lkgrainger]

Its hard to say because i'm trying to get the "perfect" settings myself.
I usually use a shutter speed of around 250/350 sec and around F8/10. But I keep changing the settings so I think these images were around 250th at F14. And I only ever use fine JPEG, although I have benn told many times I should use RAW because you can PS it without loosing much detail, no good for me though because all I know what to do with a photo is crop and resize.

Thanks to all for your comments.

[waspo]

Yeah, I kinda thought you might be shooting JPEG. It's a lot of work to go through converting and processing RAW. And if you take hundreds of shots during the day, you won't want to spend too much time PPing.
Thanks for you response, Leigh. Keep up the good work!
Cheers, Jase.