Bikes @ Knockhill today (01/04/07)

[Ally]

Hi All,
Went to knockhill today to do some college stuff on film but also took the digital with me for when my film ran out, here's what I came up with :-

all in Av mode, with a 70-200 or 50-500 + canon 20D

 

[RickMezza]

Nice shots there. Looks like the light was very difficult to deal with from your position. I think the 4th one is probably the best, but somehow I like the last the best myself - slightly unusual crop/composition, but looks great IMO.
Well done mate.

 

[ppp]

very nice set

 

[dod]

I'd go for the fourth too. First one looks way oversharpened on my laptop, could just be the screen though.

 

[Dave_G]

Yeah they look a little noisy on my monitor here too.

Av for moving stuff isn't the route I would have gone down though, neither is ISO400 as it looks quite bright.

 

[TomWilko]

Nice set of shots, think my favourite is number 4 to, although maybe if the rider in the background was a little more visible (as in helmet and shoulders) then it would be superb.

 

[Ally]

Thanks for all the comments guys

How come not in Av? I was using it with +1/3 to 1 stop dialed in? I found that I had to change all the time with manual as I wanted to go from panning to action stoping. Where as with Av I just had to put the f-stop to the number I wanted and the camera would sort it from their?

 

[Iain MacIntosh]

Hi Ally, number 4 best but its border line on the sharpening...the rest are over sharpened ( halos way too visable ) and some of the exposures are iffy. What are you doing to them from the raw image....what is you PP flow ?

cheers
Iain

 

[Ally]

totally agree with the sharping, I adjust levels if needed, saturation boost if needed and then resize and sharpen. As you can tell my PP skills are poor to say the least they are all shot JPEG

 

[pswillies]

I like #2 , but the action shots are (apart from #3) at too high a shutter speed.

Stick it in shutter priority mode next time and keep the speeds down below (something like) 1/320 for head-on and 1/200 for the pans.

Looks like it was a nice bright day up there.

 

[Joe T]

No. 6 is my favourite actually! Great composition there!

Some good panning overall.

 

[Ally]

Thanks for all the comments guys

As I said in my other thread I'm not 100% happy as I feel I've distroyed these with my poor PP skills and to be honest these were not the best images to start with 5,6 and 7 are poor. These are not crop's these were taken straight out of camera.