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• 6 Nov 2006

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Some shots from the !"Bonfire Burnup" Grasstrack meeting at collier Street in Kent yesterday. Cracking weather for it - from the perspective of both riders AND photographers!

Thanks for looking - as ever, comments welcomed!

 

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• 6 Nov 2006

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Ha ! ... Stabilisers ... they just learners or summat Witch ...

Seriously though ... a great set of action shots ... even the last when its all over bar the handshakes ...

 

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• 7 Nov 2006

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Great shots Witch, you've really caught the action.

 

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• 7 Nov 2006

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another great set ! Is it me or does number 72 driver/rider look like hes wearing a blindfold ?

 

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• 7 Nov 2006

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That looks well crazy! Great set of action shots

 

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• 7 Nov 2006

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love the second one best.. not many people would dare risk their equipment in a shower of mud and stones

 

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• 7 Nov 2006

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LOL - my 'speedway photography mentor' has it drilled into me - "Always use a filter!". We did get hit by a couple of HUGE bits of earth - I had a sore cheek for a few hours and the flash housing on the top of the 30D has a small dig in it now where it got a direct hit! You kind of get used to it though - it was only when they were going very wide we were getting hit - you learn pretty fast to choose your spot carefully! Best speedway track for action shots is peterborough as you can get almost right up to the fence, but my god you go home with bruises!

cheers for the comments!

 

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• 7 Nov 2006

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excellent stuff, love the second last one with the guy looking at you

 

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• 7 Nov 2006

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...again.
All great shots Robyn. I do like the rear shots as well, unusual to see the action of the pillion portrayed...makes for some thought provoking images I think...crazy sods.

 

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• 7 Nov 2006

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Great stuff. Certainly captured the action. The flying mud is great!

Do you ever try panning these guys?

 

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• 7 Nov 2006

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Looks a bit scary Very good pictures though

 

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• 7 Nov 2006

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Joe T said:

Great stuff. Certainly captured the action. The flying mud is great!

Do you ever try panning these guys?

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not really no - although with speedway from the centre you do to an extent. Generally from the outside though my setup is AI Servo, high speed burst, ISO as low as I can get away with, and usually shoot in AV wide open to keep the shutter speed up. A bit different on SUnday though as it was SO bright so I set the shutter speed at around 1/500th (much slower than that with the bright sunlight and there was simply too much interference from the grass and mud flying) dropping down a bit later on as the light went down. The ISO was at 100 for some of the early shots I took!

The ones heading towards me are "standard" 500cc "left handers" - those heading away are 1000cc "right handers".

talking of flying mud......