Image Critique - Superbike Race

[Sheiky]

Nice photos! I especially like the last image. Taken at f/9 which I thought was a bit odd but I love seeing the pavement streak by!!

Me too! I think you were actually a bit to safe using 1/320 in the first two shots. But anyways, very cool photos, make me want to get to a superbike race myself someday [H]

[alex.krebiehl]

Thanks! That was from the first day of three and I was still getting used to it. By the third day of the races I was using 1/160 sec shutter speed. My lens doesnt have IS so that made it a bit more difficult.


I took it at f/9 because that was the only way to get that low of a shutter speed on such a bright day. The background was blurred from camera motion so DOF wasnt really an issue.

[Sheiky]

That was from the first day of three and I was still getting used to it

Well sometimes it's better to stay at the safe side, but you'll see less blurry background and since there were people in the background it doesn't seem so fast as it could have been. I was at the risky side lately with 1/200 during motorcross and on my screen they looked ok, but in fact they weren't at all since there was too much vertical movement from the motors in my shots []


Without IS can be tricky I guess, did you use a tripod? Or fence to lean on?

I took it at f/9 because that was the only way to get that low of a shutter speed on such a bright day. The background was blurred from camera motion so DOF wasnt really an issue.

Well that's the whole idea of it I guess []


Anyway very nice photos!