post some of your first ever motorsport shots

[pete.rush]

First attempts with 20D and 70-200mm f4 at British Motorcross Championship at Matterley Basin, Winchester back on 18th June 06

Peter

 

[wull]

Cheers macky. Thats me nephew with the saltire on his bunnet

 

[james-rally-nut]

well here are a few of my first ever motocross pictures with a 5.1 fuji film camera smaller than my mobile phone

this was my first ever Motocross picture so always keep it

 

[bod]

One of 3 worthwhile shots out of a whole days shooting from one of my first attempts using a Fuji 602Z back in 2003.

I did manage a half decent badge shot though

I'll try to dig out the ones I took the previous year with an awful Ricoh compact.

 

[wull]

2006 with my pis*y wee olympus compact thingy :nuts:

Continued with it till the start of 2007

Bought meself a D40

Then finally got a 300 mm lens this year

 

[Matt Sayle]

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Dont you just hate it when your at a motorsport event, you try to take a picture of the car park and a bike gets in the way

 

[wull]

 

[neos]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/2782687730_049e947e51_o.jpg

Could never work out whether this was creative or just bad. 1/8th second if I remember. Still managed to get the windscreen wiper sharp though!

 

[Kosta]

Spa Francorchamps 2006 - Dutch Supercar Challenge....

And now some of my better stuff....

 

[nilagin]

Found a few more old 35mm photos I've scanned from the negs.
Ford BTCC fans you'll have an idea of the year (10+yrs ago). The only things I knew back then would be film speed because I was outdoors and I had to pan with the cars.
I dare say there were settings on the camera (not an slr) which would have made them alot better. I did manage some sharp shots but then I thought they were all great.

 

[desantnik]

Nice BTCC

Some of you who never played with 35mm film won't appreciate just how much more difficult it was than digital, especially when it was for something other than just "snaps".

In fact, a rather annoying experience of a set of holiday snaps that went so wrong I was on the verge of tears (!!) was actually what drove me to take the plunge into digital and to try and learn how to do photography properly (I'll beat you to it - I'm not there yet!!)

 

[AshD]

This is the earliest motorsport shot i've got:

Taken in 2006 with an Olympus point and shoot

 

[Alan.F]

I think these were taken with a Fuji 35mm which i still have but not seen the light of day for years

And RIP these 2 Greats

 

[nilagin]

And RIP these 2 Greats

Will Hoy was a top bloke, I got to talk to him on a number of occassions. He autographed the photos I'd taken at testing sessions and he'd autograph the back of my son's hand.

This is a shot of Will on the streets of Basildon, Essex in '97

 

[cwp]

Is the one with mansell at the topsa meeting when he crashed into the bridge.
I can remember having a pentax me super with a sigma 400mm f4.
Ill goes and tries to find the photos of him crashing.
We all thought he was dead it seamed to be a really bad crash at the time; I bet my photos of the incident look like a car crash.

 

[Flash In The Pan]

Is the one with mansell at the topsa meeting when he crashed into the bridge.
I can remember having a pentax me super with a sigma 400mm f4.
Ill goes and tries to find the photos of him crashing.
We all thought he was dead it seamed to be a really bad crash at the time; I bet my photos of the incident look like a car crash.

Here's the video :bonk:

 

[cwp]

thats a mint link could spend all night there.

 

[nilagin]

Is the one with mansell at the topsa meeting when he crashed into the bridge.
I can remember having a pentax me super with a sigma 400mm f4.
Ill goes and tries to find the photos of him crashing.
We all thought he was dead it seamed to be a really bad crash at the time; I bet my photos of the incident look like a car crash.

No that was in 93 in a Mk1 Mondeo, mine are when he drove the Mk2 in 98.
Apparently Ford had the mk1 crushed into a cube and presented it to Nigel and he uses it as a coffee table at his home in Devon.

 

[SnappyJon]

I first took a P&S camera to Silverstone for the LMES weekend back in about 2000 I think. All of those shots are long gone but this one is with the same camera from 2005 when I next took it! This one got me hooked on photography. The next year I gave up marshalling and bought an SLR.

 

[desantnik]

Here we go, this is one from the nasty file...

BSB Brands Sept 2006.

I haven't tried to sharpen, level or anything to this simply because there is too much BLURGH about it to make it worth doing. Shutter speed waaaaay too fast, but I quite liked the composition!

The 75-300 (non-IS) really was a POS. Soft as a soft thing and CA all over the damned place.

6 months later in May 2007 I was back at Brands for BSB, armed with my new 70-300IS. The difference was quite dramatic!

And what with that having been over winter, I'd not really improved in skill, just kit!

 

[slideordie]

Awesome difference, great post mate.

 

[eddiemiller9000]

Both taken at the pageant of power at Cholmondeley castle in August. I thought they were OK for my 1st panning attempts and the fact that my 70-210 sigma stopped focusing to infinity.

 

[Gazza_DJ]

This was one of my first with my DSLR - I dont even know if I have the crappy ones I had taken before with compacts!

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e370/gazza_dj/P8011249.jpg

Hasnt been cropped or anything, just resized. much room for improvement, but I'm happy as a beginner

 

[ukaskew]

Hehe, I bought a Sony DSC-P72 in early 2004 for a trip to America, I took my first EVER pictures there. A few months later I went to Castle Combe, so this is literally about the 100th photo I ever took of anything...

My first remotely decent photo was at Rallye Sunseeker in 2006 when I got a Panasonic FZ10 and actually used something other than AUTO mode. This one photo pretty much kick started it all for me, I bought a Castle Combe season pass soon after this as I 'had the bug'.

By the end of that season I was completely hooked and bought a Nikon D50, which I've now had for exactly 2 years.

 

[jgs001]

This is probably my first ever. I was attempting to catch some form of action with the Z2 set in sport mode (Automatic), now I realise this was never going to produce sparkling results. Goodwood Revivial 07

And the equivalent from this years Festival, after reading about how to do this on here and a bit of practice, first go at this with the dSLR

 

[RichardC27]

I'd taken photos on 35mm film cameras for a few years, firstly with my Dad's ancient Chinon SLR (manual film wind, it was literally about 30 years old), and then with an EOS 3000N. I got my first DSLR in April this year. This is the first (useable) motorsport photo I took on my EOS 400D.

 

[SCHUEYISDABEST]

This was my first proper go with my Sony Alpha, at the Le Mans series last weekend

This was the first good shot of the day, taken on the way out of chapel.

 

[Matt Sayle]

This was my first proper go with my Sony Alpha, at the Le Mans series last weekend

This was the first good shot of the day, taken on the way out of chapel.

Welcome

 

[SCHUEYISDABEST]

Welcome

Hello! I was recomended here by the person who posted above me

 

[Matt Sayle]

Hello! I was recomended here by the person who posted above me

and I recommended him
Back on topic. Dont want another crash thread

 

[markf]

hi all im off to a meeting of modified cars next weekend any tips for photographing them i got a sony alpha 100 plus standard lens plus ill have my tamron 70 - 300 zoom by then as well any suggestions and tips most appreciated
thanks mark

 

[markf]

hi all im off to a meeting of modified cars next weekend any tips for photographing them i got a sony alpha 100 plus standard lens plus ill have my tamron 70 - 300 zoom any suggestions and tips most appreciated
thanks mark

 

[Fly_Half]

What a great idea for a thread. Here are a few I took at Pembrey in December of last year, the first time I ever used a DSLR:

#1

#2

Taken with a 350D and standard kit lens.

 

[b_1_rd]

Little teaser for you all....

Who, when and what (car)

 

[Gary]

warwick, arrows, some aifield

 

[b_1_rd]

Which Warkwick? Well kind of give's it away in the question lol. It's Paul, who was testing his brother, Derek's Arrows A11. This was taken at Abingdon in 1989. Paul was sadly killed in an accident contesting the F3000 championship in 1991.

 

[andybod]

eeerrrrmmm hello complete newbeee to dslr photography hopefully here are a couple from a recent trip to the nurburging these are the first few hundred photo's i have taken with my camera which is a nikon d80 i used a sigma 50-200 lens and i'm quite happy with some of the pictures

 

[Notorious]

Borrowed a friends D60 back in the summer of 2005. This was the first time i had handled a Camera. That was it i was hooked.

By the October i had bought myself a 350D and these were the first shots i took from it. At the 2005 BTCC Season Finale at Brands.

Pete

 

[Matt Sayle]

Paul was sadly killed in an accident contesting the F3000 championship in 1991.

Yeah at Oulton Park. He lost it at, what is now known as knickerbrook. his accident resulted in the chicane being installed to slow drivers down so this didnt happen again. Also Warwick Bridge is named in his honour

 

[andrewc]

Knickerbrooks been called that since 1954. Apparantly a popular place for courting couples, and some workmen found some knickers in a brook.