Bikes!

[ukaskew]

Freebone and Freebone Snr. introduced me to the world of motocross today. Despite having no interest in bikes whatsoever it was amazingly good fun, and as a bonus I had one of my most productive days photographing since I took up the hobby.

Gallery here: http://chrisharrison.smugmug.com/gallery/2917252

 

[ollie]

Them sidecar things look scary, lol.

 

[Moz168]

Nice pictures. silhouette(sp?) one is my fav.
Out of interest, wht type of account do you use for your website? Quite lke it, nice and clean and simple. Great picture up there to!

 

[Nafoff]

dam you chris........i uploaded mine last night so will probably edit them and upload them on here this evening.......

most productive day since starting hey - glad you enjoyed it

 

[ukaskew]

dam you chris........i uploaded mine last night so will probably edit them and upload them on here this evening.......

most productive day since starting hey - glad you enjoyed it

Yeah I loved it, so much fun. Got back from watching Pirates at 12:30 and thought I would take a quick look, ended up going through them until 2:30 as I was so pleased with them

 

[Nafoff]

i have edited a few of mine, i just can't seem to access and then re-save them from raw files to jpegs.....dam it

 

[new_world_disorder]

aaah . sexy bikes.
the side car ones look sumwhat SCARY. i have a scrambler. wish i used it more !

 

[Nafoff]

and mine from the same day....just took a bit longer to sort out

 

[ukaskew]

Top stuff, 3rd pic is my favourite. Your head was scarily close to those bikes when you were taking those ones

 

[Nafoff]

lol chris.....my dad did say about the stake....

any tips etc from looking at my pics?

(you still ok for later, around 4ish at mine?)

 

[ukaskew]

I've just run the pics through an EXIF viewer and it says ISO1600, is that right?!

If so my tip would be to bring that down considerably. Other than that they are pretty good, I wouldn't expect you to find too much more out of the kit lens for that sort of photography. The last two panning shots are cool, considering the speed they were going at that point they are exactly as I would expect them to look, second to last is my favourite now I've had a good look.

 

[lemonnobby]

where was this too?

 

[ukaskew]

where was this too?

Right next to the Tor Works between Frome and Shepton Mallet.

 

[Christopher]

brilliant pics

nice work chaps

 

[lemonnobby]

cool nice pics.

 

[dick]

was the second yet f pics with a p&s? if there not im so sorry!

first set of pics look a totally different quality set altogeyther

ISO 1600?! should be able to use 100 with that light level!

 

[ukaskew]

was the second yet f pics with a p&s? if there not im so sorry!

first set of pics look a totally different quality set altogeyther

ISO 1600?! should be able to use 100 with that light level!

Cameras are pretty much identical (first set: Nikon D50, second set: Canon 350D), difference is the lens in use...

- First set was with a Nikkor 80-200mm 2.8 AF-S (say goodbye to £1200+)
- Second set was with the 350D kit lens which only stretches to 55mm and isn't very fast

I've also been shooting motorsports for about 18 months now, ph-reebone was using his camera for the first ever time.

Damn good effort in my opinion, you should see my early efforts, he's already about 6 months further on than I was!

 

[Nafoff]

lol....trying to boost me in the thread chris.....

not so sure myself....and to answer the questions yes it was 1600iso, i have alot to learn yet,

dick i appreciate chris's being a totally different set, i am not trying to compete in any way, as said it was the first use of the camera, the lense was way to small also, a pain in the arse