Speedway

[jane-f]

Hi
Got the chance to watch some speed way last fri night, we wernt expecting it to be on
as theres never normaly anything on when we go down to the east of england show ground,
so took the chance to try and take some pictures.

This was the first time takeing pictures of anything like this, and under floodlights,
so taking the pictures i had to play it by ear, as we was watching it free, i could only stand outside the arrena
and only managed a few, as kept getting sprayed by the sandy/grit flying everywhere.

[Janice Freeman]

I Love the speedway Jane and have watched all the Grand Prix on Telly. I used to go to Belle Vue in my younger days. This is a subject I would like to try but I need to learn how to use my camera first. I thinks these are great shots. Well done. Janice

[pammie]

For a first attempt these are pretty good. I tried photographing racing trucks last year, they are a lot bigger and that was difficult enough.
Well done!

[Theo Dibbits]

The trick is to "charme" Bert Haddock in showing you how its done. Under his guidance and after about 1000 shots I finally have a few motorbike shots worth keeping.

Your camera has captured a lot more detail then is shown in your pictures.
Here is the last shot pulled through Photoshop, levels, curves, saturation and that is about it.
There is probably even more when working on a full size JPEG or ideally a RAW file

Theo

[bert haddock]

Hi Jane-f,
These are ok for a first attempt, as with anything it is a case of lots of practice, for many years I photographed lots of sporting events mainly motorcycles, British superbikes, motocross, motogp etc, practice panning on anything moving, cars on the road etc, choose the correct shutter speed and aperture to blur the background but not to high a shutter speed to freeze the wheels they need to still be spinning, once you have mastered panning, shutter, aperture etc you can use the same technique to photograph any moving subject as the birds in flight in the attached images. a good starting point depending on your lens is, aperture 5.6 or wider, shutter 250-300 and something like a 70-300 lens
Any more info you want on this subject have a chat with me at ADAPS.
Regards,
Bert.

[bert haddock]

Re the above,
Birds in flight.
Bert.

[jane-f]

Thanks all

Theo think photoshop is one of the things i realy need to get a grip with, do sometimes find it difficult
to sort photos out and get them right.


Bert its the 70-300 i have - will take them tips on board, thank you
sadley i dont seem to get the chance to get down to the club
work gets in the way and unfortunaly will probably start to get more
busy as the skeem im on is up for tender