British Superbike Qualifying at Brands Hatch

[nevets2001uk]

Myself and a few friends headed over at Brands Hatch today for the British Superbike Qualifying. While I'm not the biggest of bike fans I decided to head along and have a bit of an experiment. By the end of the day my panning skills had certainly been practiced!

Results were mixed as there is a real challenge to getting sharp bike shots from these events (for me anyway). I've flicked through my collection from the day (some of which appear to be lost at the moment on a corrupt card) and my hit rate was much lower than I'd expect from car racing, still I got some pleasing images.

A full gallery is online at http://sjgphotography.co.uk/gallery/gallery.aspx?id=29

Cheers,
Steve

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Panning at 1/200th by the end of the day...

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[Joe T]

Nice!

[Matt Sayle]

Nice sharp pictures. By any chance did you get any of number 72 in the 125s?

[ppp]

really nice set, love all the different angles you have got. well done

[nevets2001uk]

Thanks guys. I appreciate the comments.

Matt - I'll take a look at my shots but I doubt it as I didn't take make shots during the 125's I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Steve

[billyd601]

stunning :thumbs:

[Matt Sayle]

Matt - I'll take a look at my shots but I doubt it as I didn't take make shots during the 125's I'm afraid.

Thanks. :D

[andyjayh]

Very good Steve :clap: Nice collection of shots. Really need to get myself to a track soon and have some practice :lol:

[nevets2001uk]

Thanks again guys. I appreciate the comments.

[desantnik]

Not bad, but the colours look a little washed out to me...

I like pro-race series pics to have all the riot of colour that they are in real life

[nevets2001uk]

Thanks, they have lost a bit of punch in the conversion to JPEG but on my calibrated monitor they look pretty close to what I saw when I was there. Remember at times it was a cloudy and that has the effect of de-saturating colour a little. I aim for my images to look realistic to what I saw at the time and try not to over-process them.

[Lancer01]

Some excellent sharp Images Steve......the last Ducati shot is a cracker......Cheers Barry

[nevets2001uk]

Thanks Bazza. The Ducati is one of my favourites as well!

[Beth]

Excellent quality shots. No. 5 is the one for me. :)

[pete.rush]

Great shots Steve.....good day had by all......media vest next year :thumbs:

[robbiemc]

All of these are top quality, thanks for sharing.

[james_death]

Nice shots there, and when you get a back shot as they bank towards you always bets to me.