Few Shots from Indy GP

[BigB]

My first attempt at taking auto racing shots, ever. I know, no panning shots, but I didn't really have room to pan at track level, and in the stands it didn't really work out for me.

Camera is Olympus E-300, lens is Sigma 55-200mm. Lens seems very soft and focusing isn't very fast. I'll have to remember to manually or spot focus next time. Though, I did have manual focus on accidentally for a while there

Here are some of the good ones. Contrast USM applied (20, 50, 0) and some saturation, that's it.





5 more can be found at http://bigb.ws/photos/gallery2/main.php

I think I need new image gallery html, Gallery 2 seems pretty slow.

I should have more later tonight as I try and save some other shots Feedback is expected and appreciated, I'm a big boy, I can take it No other way for me to get better.

[James North]

I think those are pretty good for a first hack at it.

My only real critism in light of that is that I think you've used too much saturation.

But then, I normally prefer much less light tweaking than most people anyway.

You're right, it's pretty impossible to pan in a crowed grandstand. For one you've haven't got the room to do it, and secondly actually traking the cars is very hard because your view is obscured. So smooth and accurte panning is a nightmare.

[BigB]

Thanks for the reply. You might be right about the oversaturation. Though I think it's a monitor / profile thing. Looked great at home (and on print at 8x10) but here at work seems a bit too yellow. Though I barely tweaked the Toyota car, just added more contrast than anything. The saturation on the other pics was in the range of +5 to +8 in PS CS.

Thanks for the comments! Keep them coming Good, bad, ugly, whatever

[BigB]

More shots are up.

Gallery (800x600 images for the most part)
http://bigb.ws/gallery2/main.php

Testing out SimpleViewer (450 width resized images, trying for smaller desktops)
http://bigb.ws/photos/