WSB Silverstons Saturday Qualifying

[iansmart]

http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/wsb_silverstone/resources/media/04filmstrip_vert_lt/large/IANS3712.jpg

http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/wsb_silverstone/resources/media/04filmstrip_vert_lt/large/IANS3752.jpg (http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/IANS3752.jpg)

http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/wsb_silverstone/resources/media/04filmstrip_vert_lt/large/IANS3798.jpg

http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/wsb_silverstone/resources/media/04filmstrip_vert_lt/large/IANS3829.jpg

http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/wsb_silverstone/resources/media/04filmstrip_vert_lt/large/IANS3865.jpg

http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/wsb_silverstone/resources/media/04filmstrip_vert_lt/large/IANS4015.jpg

http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/wsb_silverstone/resources/media/04filmstrip_vert_lt/large/IANS4266.jpg

http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/wsb_silverstone/resources/media/04filmstrip_vert_lt/large/IANS4177.jpg (http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/IANS4177.JPG)

Full gallery here (http://www.ian-smart.co.uk/jalbum/wsb_silverstone/)

[RobertP]

Don't know if you forgot to sharpen them but they all look quite soft to me.

[scoff]

Good panning Effect, but agree with Robert, slightly oof or soft.
Nice set though

[russdaz]

What lens was that with?

Nowing the track, i think those are heavily cropped? as the focal length on the exif is 280mm which is a tad short for Silverstone to get that close. That could explain the softness

A tad faster shutter for 3 and 4 would have given a more completely sharp all over bike finish, i.e the back's of the bikes are slightly blurr'd, i like the effect tbh, others wont.

trick conditions out there by the looks off all the threads i seen.

[Matt]

I'm only guessing, but I'd say Ian used a 70-200 with 1.4x teleconverter.
The softness may be due to the image compression when reducing down, 72k is rather small to keep the detail.

There are a couple of crackers there Ian, :thumbs:

[iansmart]

Correct Matt. I've linked the second and last ones to a higher res versions so you can see what that looks like.

[desantnik]

Looks pin sharp to me from the two bigger ones you linked.

I had a quick mess around with the last one using your larger version and there's some good room for a bit of a crop and rotate (rotation to my usually universally condemned "too extreme angle" but I like it hehe).

Which corner(s) did you shoot these from?

[iansmart]

Thanks Desantnik, though it's already been cropped and rotated though maybe not as extremely as you might have done!:lol: All but the first are from Bridge to Priory. The first is Woodcote.