post some of your first ever motorsport shots

[Big Ant]

Here are a couple of my first shots I ever took

Took with my trusty old 350D exif made me laugh shot at 1/1000 but it did get into that weeks motorsport news. In return for a copy of the series of shots I took I also got my first ride in a WRC car

and another 350D shot with my Sigma 100-300

 

[chrispons]

I would settle for that Scoobie shot now Big Ant.
Pons

 

[Gary]

post some of the motorsport shots you have taken before you had a clue what you were doing

let me just remind a few people of this
the idea originally was to see crap photos (like mine) for a laugh, but most of them seem to be far from crap.

 

[andrewc]

thats because people are either a) lying or b) learnt from TP and applied their knowledge correctly.

 

[Cynergy]

Here's mine, at a very wet Donnington MotoGP. Still don't know what I'm doing !

 

[Grandslammer]

keep 'em coming
might even be worth starting a new thread if you have quite a few more.

Err,do I have to ?...don't fancy scanning through 45 packs of photos :nuts:

Anyhow,a few more from memory lane for now
Hannu Mikkola

A young Jean Todt

Some more Thruxton antics

Giles Villeneuve's car at Brands from 1980
(apologies for the pic,degraded somewhat)

 

[Wail]

So it may not be the hight of the autosport season, but I am sure there are still some events that bring up interesting and amazing shots ... please post!

 

[exileded]

Well I'll jump in with the first ever event I bothered to take my point and shoot to, New Zealand Rally 2002
All the photo's are poor quality scans unfortunatly but this was long before I discovered digital...

 

[SpidersEye]

Here are some of the first shots I took at Knockhill (in 2006):

Superbikes:

Several dozen like this

And many others like this:

BTCC:

From 2008:

Snowman Rally:

BTCC:

I like to think I've improved a bit.

 

[exileded]

My rally shots were followed by a Digital point and shoot, but before I knew what panning was...
Just stuck my camera through a link in the fence and tried to guess the shutter lag to when a car would be in shot. I have applied noise reduction to these as they were super noisy to begin with!

Hopefully now I've got a good camera and at least an inkling of a clue I can get some better shots at Melbourne or Sepang this year... Hey at least I know what panning is now

 

[#13]

since my first time was only last Saturday and my first posts are up on tp i;ll just post the link to the thread

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=111872

 

[cyclone]

29th April 2007.
I took my shiney new D80 and sigma 18-200 to Curborough with high hopes and bags of enthusiasm.
I had done lots of research so for most of the day opted for high shutter speeds, 1/400s - 1/1000s I think. I shot in manual so I could also control the aperture and let autoISO do it's thing.

1st motorsports shot ever

9th

38th, I got a lot of these, it took me a while to consider moving.

231st

It was looking so good, until 238

455th

474th, getting better?

902

1009, at last, something happened!

1202

All of these are jpeg's straight from the camera, resized to 800px and saved, no cropping, no curves nowt else done.
Curiously I took over 1400 shots that day, and I only have one battery and I don't think it went flat. I was just holding the shutter down.
These days I pick my moment, and do well to take 200 in a day.

 

[minimangler]

OK, strictly this is m second with a DSLR, but my first was all manual focus, f8, no clue what i'm doing, 500mm mirror. haha!

But...

Well, it's moved on a bit since then...
My first ever accredited event, FIA GT 2008.

I'll maybe scan some of my film prints from Oulton BTCC 2006/ FIA GT 2006 later.

 

[KeithIOW]

First the not so good...
#1

#2

#3

#4 - not quite got the hang of panning yet :bang:

and hopefully some not so bad...
#5

#6

#7

#8 - panning getting better (so that's what TV does !!)

#9

Hopefully I seem to ge 'getting there' but still a bit of a way to go.

 

[Byker28i]

I don't understand why people have kept blurred shots I just delete mine.

Here's mine.
Canon 300d and the 75-300 non usm lens

 

[Byker28i]

Here are some of the first shots I took at Knockhill (in 2006):

Superbikes:

Several dozen like this

This one made me laugh.

 

[neonpollen]

My first attepts at photographing bike racing ...

More recent attempts

 

[Craikeybaby]

The first time I tried shooting motorsport (other than the '94 British GP at Silverstone with a 35mm p&s) was a week after I got my 20D at Le Mans, only having the kit lens didn't help, this was the average standard:

But this one I was rather more pleased with:

 

[rrfierce]

One of my first motorsport shots, not managed much better since tbh!

Only managed 3 events last year, which is all set to change in 2009

 

[Rob_W]

Probably one of my first film pics Steve Murty's jet truck over at York raceway.

and probably one of the first with a digital

 

[Matt Sayle]

Some of these shots have given me an idea........

 

[losixxx]

Yes it is officially class as motorsports...part of the BMA!

 

[Gary]

Yes it is officially class as motorsports...part of the BMA!

british medical association?

 

[KelV6]

One of my early drag racing images, this shot must be over 25 years old, shot on slide film, probably agfa film stock.. Going by the post of Rob_W the car 'Money Hungry' must still be around. As a bonus trivia fact you see the Money Hungry graphic on the side of the car, well real £1 notes were lacquered into the graphic.

 

[neos]

Took this at the Snowman rally near Inverness about 10 years ago with a Canon 1000F, it was my favourite at the time because it had 'movement' ( i remember taking ait at 1/8th second), but I still can't decide whether it's creative blur or rubbish. You decide!

 

[elvisrally]

These were taken over a 2 yr period (2005 - 2006) where I switched from recording a rally on video, to photographing them.

At the time I often wandered why I bothered.

but a bit of trial and error and LOTS of perseverance and I have improved a little, but by far enjoy it more than video.

my 1st attempt to photo at Rally GB December 2004 and a borrowed camera from my dad.

Markko Martin Rally GB 2004

Cambrian rally 2005

Andy Burton

Thanks for the help on the forum and things have improved

Cheers Elvis

 

[muppetdave]

One of my very earliest from quite some years ago (probably circa 15-16 years ago) with a cheap old 35mm film camera...

 

[Cranky]

2006 Silverstone with the trusty point and shoot

 

[E.M.P.]

Some great before and after pics from peoples improvements. What I`d like to know is how many of the "after" shots have been photoshop enhanced and how many are straight out the camera like a lot of the "before" pictures

 

[philwillmedia]

Haha...not a snowball's chance in hell of seeing my first motorsport shots.
They're all on negatives from 1980 something or other and buried away somewhere in boxes.

 

[D-pearce92]

First time doing motorsport photography with a bridge camera, all I knew was to use shutter mode and follow the car to get motion

I got one fairly sucessful pan apart from half the cars missing


My attempt at a racing shot



Got hooked and have spent a few pounds and now getting shots like this


IMG_7939 by Motorsport-Mad-Dex, on Flickr


IMG_8801 by Motorsport-Mad-Dex, on Flickr

 

[i4photography]

oh gawd

Either 2004 or 5, minolta dimage 7i I think

And from the same meet

1st 2 pics are wicked!

 

[Phillips_91]

What an awesome thread! Nice to see some of the pros that i've been in awe of there work and aspiring to produce images like once were producing poor shots aswell Theres hope out there for us all (somewhere)

I shall pull out some of my first images when i get home

 

[alix]

2 of my shots from my first events with my dslr back in 2010 on my old 1000d

 

[Fireproof Creative]

This is an old thread, actually looks like it was started at the same time that I actually got my first digital camera in 2008 (student loan well rinsed ) a Canon s3 IS Bridge camera - 6 mega-pixels of wonder , I had an Olympus om4 film cam (actually still have) which i probably used 3 times prior to getting something that didn't require a dark room

first ever shots with the camera at an f1 test, when they were free and I was young (or stupid) enough to sneak through an empty garage at Silverstone... even stood on the pit wall mid test, I wish i could do that now I cant believe it was only 5 years ago - still It shows Photoshop has been with me since day one


rosberg 1 by Fireproof_Art, on Flickr


heikki 2 by Fireproof_Art, on Flickr

This one is a lot more representative (when i wasnt lucky enough to be in the pit lane)

massa2 by Fireproof_Art, on Flickr

and then 3 years later (firmly routed to the spectator areas now and since being lucky in 2008)

Sebastian Vettle by Fireproof_Art, on Flickr

actually looking at this I quite like the old ones (I assure you the fact that I only have 10 photos left after 2 years of using the bridge camera that these were flukes)

I'm really looking forward to 2013 - Hopefully something new will be seen from me

 

[RichardTaylor]

The oldest one I have uploaded .


Fank Matich 12 July 1970 by dicktay2000, on Flickr

From the spectator area in July 1970.
Pic is a P&S pic of an old transperancy (slide) of mine.