newbie's first time out at oulton park

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i know i know oulton park again i hear you say but im a complete newbie when it comes to photography and have just binned my point and shoot camera and invested in a sony A230 DSLR camera

ive not got a clue how to use it set it up etc yet hence why ive joined this forum to learn

anyhow ive just took it out of the box charged it up put the card in and went to play with it at oulton park the last 3 weekends and these are my favourite 6 pics from each weekend.they havent been edited in any way just uploaded to photbucket and posted

23/1/10

1.
tailhappycossie2.jpg


2.
porschegt3.jpg


3.
astonmartin8.jpg


4.
vectrachallengecar1.jpg


5.
escortcossie2.jpg


6.
skyline3.jpg


the rest of the pics are in this photobucket album if you want a nosey

http://s293.photobucket.com/albums/mm66/bigrobbuzz88/Oulton Park Trackday 23rd Jan 2010/?start=all
 
Did you get anymore of the yellow nova?


The photo's are lacking movement, a slower shutter speed would of made them a lot better
 
too many photos to really give any crit :shrug:

Try and limit yourself to 6 images and theres more chance you'll get feedback
 
ste the other pics of that nova are in the photobucket link at the bottom of that post mate i will look at lowering the shutter speed then next time thanks

ill bear that in mind andy as hard as it was picking 6 out i did for each weekend ive only just found this site hence me posting pics from the last 3 weeks i will keep it to one thread per visit in future
 
Try and shoot with a shutter speed of < 1/160th while panning (i.e. tracking) the car to convey movement. The easiest way is to set the camera in Tv mode and then set the shutter speed. The camera will adjust the aperture and possibly the ISO to meter the picture for you.

If you're feeling advanced set the metering to Spot (i.e. the middle of the view finder) to ensure the camera meters the car you're pointing at and not the picture as a whole.

If you shoot in RAW mode you have much more freedom post-processing the pictures to ensure you get good contrast, colours and so on than if you let the camera do the RAW to JPEG conversion for you. I've recently got a Canon 50D and while that's making a difference, I've also changed to RAW shooting and that's making a much bigger difference to how my pictures are turning out.
 
Good set for a starter. Can not add any more than already said. But be there for the bikes this weekend.
 
40th Dimension said:
Try and shoot with a shutter speed of < 1/160th while panning (i.e. tracking) the car to convey movement. The easiest way is to set the camera in Tv mode and then set the shutter speed. The camera will adjust the aperture and possibly the ISO to meter the picture for you.

If you're feeling advanced set the metering to Spot (i.e. the middle of the view finder) to ensure the camera meters the car you're pointing at and not the picture as a whole.

If you shoot in RAW mode you have much more freedom post-processing the pictures to ensure you get good contrast, colours and so on than if you let the camera do the RAW to JPEG conversion for you. I've recently got a Canon 50D and while that's making a difference, I've also changed to RAW shooting and that's making a much bigger difference to how my pictures are turning out.
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thanks for the tips mate a bit baffling lol but ill get the instruction manual out and have a go at setting it up like that and see what it produces.is the raw settings why some of the pics ive seen on here look amazingly good such good colour etc?

Ziploc said:
Good set for a starter. Can not add any more than already said. But be there for the bikes this weekend.
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thanks mate im not there this weekend ive got plans but hoping to get there the saturday after and have a go at shooting some bikes.also going to try and make a few wednesday's as thats my free day mideweek (y)
 
Great timing on the M3 pic, to get the BMW Power hoarding in the background. You're off to a good start. :clap:
 
Some promising shots there (y)

Good timing on 1 and 4, as has been said set the camera to Shutter priority (Tv) and practise panning and selecting shutter speeds. Start up around 1/320 and work down as your panning gets better. There are some good threads on here in the basics section and some good vids, worth a look.

Also look for variety, not all motorsport is on the track, you tried with 10, look for different/interesting stuff.

Practise/practise/practise remember everone on here had to start somewhere (y)
 
Very good set for a first time, the only things to watch are your composition (barriers are obscuring parts of the car in a couple of shots), and your shutter speed for panning shots. 1/160th might be a bit slow to start with, I notice some shots are at 1/250th, which should be fine.

It all depends on how fast the car is going at a given point on the circuit. A shutter speed of 1/400th will give fairly good motion blur if the subject is doing 170mph. If the car is doing 70mph it will look almost stopped dead.
 
thanks for all your input peeps ill take on board all these hints and tips and hopefully get some better results when i go next saturday for my first bike shoot

i like the vec too graham as i own one :LOL: just a 2litre sri but hopefully later on this year it should be getting a 3litre lump dropped in it then ill get it on the track myself hers a pic of mine

MyCar-1.jpg
 
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