Motorcycle Track Day: Laguna Seca, Part 1

[dmourati]

Track Day

Laguna Seca

Part 1

A buddy at work races motorcycles and invited me to come down to a track day.















Oops.





He should have stayed down.

Part 2 to follow.

[groovehouse]

I like the 5th one down. Really cool shots.

[Roger79]

Like em', but...

What happened to the guy entering into the sand trap???
Any shots of it ????

[dmourati]

Like em', but...

What happened to the guy entering into the sand trap???
Any shots of it ????

He made it, just real slow.

Sand Trap | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Working on part 2.

[dmourati]

Part 2


Visor



Pan



Field



Pan 2

[SmartWombat]

I normally look for the face of the rider, but I like what you caught there in "visor".
I think you could crop it more from the buttom, almost up to the far side of the track.

I'm coming to the conclusion I want to shoot 16:9 stills for motorsport, or even wider, rather than cropping.

Your first set though, all look to have a high shutter speed, you can even see the tyre tread, mabe too fast to give the sense of motion until they tip into the corner.

The "pan" is good, you've done the opposite of the usual motion shot and shown what's behind rather than leaving room to move into in front, seeing the unusual is good when it works!

That shot of the field is nice, look for a nose to tail train on the racing line weaving through corners like a snake. When they're close to each other and it's a tight set of corners it makes a gorgeous image.

[AgingEyes]

I'm pretty much with SmartWombat here


Good series.