Pre race entertainment - Freestyle Motocross

[Jaedon]

Before Saturday (May 24th 2008) nights race (Crown Jewel 200 - NASCAR Canadian Tire series - Cayuga Ontario) they had a few Motocross freestyle jumpers visiting form Florida in attendance who put on a show for the crowd to get the adrenaline pumping before the race began. Somebody should've told him that most Canadians aren't a rowdy bunch....... and we apologize for that =)

White balance is off from #1 to #2 so I gotta go back and fix that. I like the balance in #2 better... am I right?

A little bit of editing to get the sequences here:







No fancy editing on this one... 2 bikes in the air.... for real:

[Lori11]

WOW, great shots, looks like a lot of fun! I agree with you about WB. Try cropping some of the bottom out and see how they look.

[retroactiv]

Those are great shots, if you cropped out the bottom like Lori says, they would be supurb. Good job, and keep up the good work.

[SmartWombat]

I agree it's busy, very busy with detail.
But if you crop out the bottom, you lose the impression of height.

What stood out to me was the softness, looks like 1/320 wasn't fast enough perhaps?
Knowing they've got to hit the ramp, I'd have used a wider aperture and faster shutter speed.

I am amazed at the editing skill to put these exposures together.

[Jaedon]

The softness was caused by my own stupidity. There are 2 settings for the in body IS. The first one stabilizes in all directions and the second setting stabilizes the verticals but allows you to move side to side panning. I forgot I had it on setting 1. So when I panned with the motion the camera locked on the fixed objects. I should've been focusing manually as well but I was lazy and had had a few too many wobbely pops when these guys came out. I also should've been using a faster shutter than I was. Over all this was an excellent learning experience for me for the first time out with a new camera body. But no excuses for the equipment... it was all the operators fault =)

As for the editing... thanks PAul. It wasn't really that hard but it was definitely time consuming with all that layering..