Photo critique - Scottish Sprint Championship Round N1
Discussion
Hey folks, relative newbie here, been registered for a while but not posted much.
Anyway went to spectate at a one of the Scottish Sprint Championship rounds which is reasonably local to me. Took loads of photos, I'm looking for opinions as to whether you lot as petrol heads think they are any good or not. All comments appreciated good or bad.
Taken with a canon Eos 450d and 18-55 kit lens @ 55mm (haven't saved the pennies for a decent lens yet) Most of them taken in Shutter speed priority AE, set to 1/160 or 1/125.
Full set of photos can be found here
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjuR81qn
201104Jun_0167 by dubzter, on Flickr
201104Jun_0187 by dubzter, on Flickr
201104Jun_0235 by dubzter, on Flickr
Anyway went to spectate at a one of the Scottish Sprint Championship rounds which is reasonably local to me. Took loads of photos, I'm looking for opinions as to whether you lot as petrol heads think they are any good or not. All comments appreciated good or bad.
Taken with a canon Eos 450d and 18-55 kit lens @ 55mm (haven't saved the pennies for a decent lens yet) Most of them taken in Shutter speed priority AE, set to 1/160 or 1/125.
Full set of photos can be found here
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjuR81qn
201104Jun_0167 by dubzter, on Flickr
201104Jun_0187 by dubzter, on Flickr
201104Jun_0235 by dubzter, on Flickr
In general, good effort not much wrong there 
A couple of minor suggestions to consider: maybe try for a slower shutter once you have got your eye in a bit and you'll get a better feeling of motion (Shutter priority for this - try something like 1/80th). The watermark is a real pain in the ass - try something smaller and down in a bottom corner ?
A couple of minor suggestions to consider: maybe try for a slower shutter once you have got your eye in a bit and you'll get a better feeling of motion (Shutter priority for this - try something like 1/80th). The watermark is a real pain in the ass - try something smaller and down in a bottom corner ?
dibbly dobbler said:
In general, good effort not much wrong there
A couple of minor suggestions to consider: maybe try for a slower shutter once you have got your eye in a bit and you'll get a better feeling of motion (Shutter priority for this - try something like 1/80th). The watermark is a real pain in the ass - try something smaller and down in a bottom corner ?
Cheers for the comments, much appreciated, it was my first attempt at motorsport photography so I guess I was playing it safe with the shutter speed. Fair comment about the watermark, I'm pretty new to photoshop so that was the only editing done to the photos. Right I'm off to practice a bit more and try a new watermark. A couple of minor suggestions to consider: maybe try for a slower shutter once you have got your eye in a bit and you'll get a better feeling of motion (Shutter priority for this - try something like 1/80th). The watermark is a real pain in the ass - try something smaller and down in a bottom corner ?
Edited by dubzter on Monday 6th June 21:58
dubzter said:
Cheers for the comments, much appreciated, it was my first attempt at motorsport photography so I guess I was playing it safe with the shutter speed. Fair comment about the watermark, I'm pretty new to photoshop so that was the only editing done to the photos. Right I'm off to practice a bit more and try a new watermark.
Look forward to seeing more 
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