Brands through the lens of an ameteur

Thursday 2nd July is right up there with some of my favorite days of my life. Some others are: My first WSBK weekend, toselands double win, suzuki gsxr day when colin mcrae thrashed a gsxr1000 then drove his rally car sideways around each turn. What have all these got in common?

Brands hatch Here's my memories, captured in digital format























































































































thats enough for now i think

[DarrenSV650S]

Brilliant pictures mate

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

Thursday 1st July

Wednesday?

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Brilliant pictures mate



Wednesday?

lol i got my dates mixed up, now edited

These are very good! You have the panning right, just need to maybe up your shutter speed a touch (make it faster) so that you get more of the bikes in focus, but i'd be very happy with these and much better than what the track photographer was getting (the track photography ones were either over exposed, too dark, or everything in focus with no real sense of speed to the images).

I also like the slight rotation you have done to the images so they are not going from left to right, this also adds an interest to the images.

Great colour saturation (something Nikon does very well).

The last picture i would crop in slightly just to take out the fence post

What were your shutter speeds and what aperture were you using?

Well done mate!! See you at the next one!!

Originally Posted by Samnooshka

These are very good! You have the panning right, just need to maybe up your shutter speed a touch (make it faster) so that you get more of the bikes in focus, but i'd be very happy with these and much better than what the track photographer was getting (the track photography ones were either over exposed, too dark, or everything in focus with no real sense of speed to the images).

I also like the slight rotation you have done to the images so they are not going from left to right, this also adds an interest to the images.

Great colour saturation (something Nikon does very well).

The last picture i would crop in slightly just to take out the fence post

What were your shutter speeds and what aperture were you using?

Well done mate!! See you at the next one!!

Your right about the shutter speed; it looked ok on the small camera screen but once i looked on the laptop maybe a slighty faster speed would have been better. I think the speed was 1/250 (im sure it was less than that but thats the last setting on my camera) and f 9 or 10 (depending on if the cloud went over or not...)

awww no, i'll leave that little fence post in, its a bit of brands hatch after all actualy, alot of them could do wqith a bit of cropping

looking forward to the next time im at the track nowwwww, i learnt alot

Matt

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

Your right about the shutter speed; it looked ok on the small camera screen but once i looked on the laptop maybe a slighty faster speed would have been better. I think the speed was 1/250 (im sure it was less than that but thats the last setting on my camera) and f 9 or 10 (depending on if the cloud went over or not...)

I used between 1/500 and 1/640 and aperture f4.0 - f5.6 depending on available light. using 1/500 it is fast enough to freeze any small movement but you still get the blur of the wheels and background that gives you a sense of movement

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

awww no, i'll leave that little fence post in, its a bit of brands hatch after all actualy, alot of them could do wqith a bit of cropping

It is your work and just a suggestion The image still works with our without it, if you did want to crop it, i would crop so that the bike has more space in front of it than behind it that way the bike has space to travel through the image

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

Isn't strange how Jambo looks quite tall in real life

Originally Posted by Samnooshka

I used between 1/500 and 1/640 and aperture f4.0 - f5.6 depending on available light. using 1/500 it is fast enough to freeze any small movement but you still get the blur of the wheels and background that gives you a sense of movement

I will try this I read something in a photo magazine about getting the shutter speed so that everything looks like its moving, so thats the effect I was going for but I slightly overdid it

everyone back to brands hatch so I can play with my camera more

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Is this rider missing a limb? If so how the feck do they do it?

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Is this rider missing a limb? If so how the feck do they do it?

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There is a few chaps like that about, last time I was at rockingham there was two lads out in the fast group, one with a left arm missing, one with a right arm.......both going very quick in the fast group