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I went to Silverstone a couple of weeks ago - had free tickets to the Le Mans Series 1000km. However, I'm a bit behind on editing and uploading. This was the car that eventually went on to win the race, and bearing in mind I'm still a learner all comments and critique would be appreciated.
Although I have never tried to take pics of racing cars, I've seen others photographs of motorbikes. I don't think that it can be easy.
I think that your image is a very good start. You have the blurred background and a fairly sharp car.
I like the position of the car within the whole.
If it were mine, I would be inclined to crop some off the top as the other car is a distraction. You may also need to take a little off the bottom to maintain the balance.
I think that you have done very well for a first effort. I hope some of our motor sports enthusiasts will also offer their critique.
Although I have never tried to take pics of racing cars, I've seen others photographs of motorbikes. I don't think that it can be easy.
I think that your image is a very good start. You have the blurred background and a fairly sharp car.
I like the position of the car within the whole.
If it were mine, I would be inclined to crop some off the top as the other car is a distraction. You may also need to take a little off the bottom to maintain the balance.
I think that you have done very well for a first effort. I hope some of our motor sports enthusiasts will also offer their critique.
Well I have taken the odd car and bike photo in my time so here is my feedback. Great photo, the car is sharp and you have given it room to drive into which is always important. I would also have cropped the top off a bit as it does distract a little bit. Oh and lets see some more please.
Well I have taken the odd car and bike photo in my time so here is my feedback. Great photo, the car is sharp and you have given it room to drive into which is always important. I would also have cropped the top off a bit as it does distract a little bit. Oh and lets see some more please.
Thanks to Audrey and Peter for your comments. I'd never tried anything like it before, so when I got free tickets I thought it was too good an opportunity to miss! I can't BELIEVE how many shots you have to take to get a good one - at the start I'd get the front of the car entering the shot and as I panned I'd get it's rear end leaving.... but nothing in between
Since it was a six-hour race, I think I took something like 400 shots - 200 of those immediately hit the bin when downloaded because they were just utter rubbish. Still editing - only got about another 100 to go, but I'm still discarding images. Someone did tell me that a 10% success rate was about right
I've somewhat sillily replaced the photo, so the new crop is now above!
So here's the next one - not sure what to do about the wall behind. I have darkened the output levels, but it's still pretty bright:
Last edited by Caz; 27-09-08, 08:24 PM.
Reason: Removed the original image, added another
I like the edit thats what I would have done. Also sometimes there is nothing you can do to the backgrounds it's all part of the sport. Having said the you could select the car then lower the colours in the background.
Good shots Caz, there is only a few places around silverstone where you can get good clear shots of the track without the wire fencing! Even on the stands because where the stands are they make the fencing even higher, its like they do it just to p*ss photographers off
The images are a very small file size and only 100dpi is there any reason why you posted them so small? They dont look as crisp as Im sure they are and there are some jpeg artifacts around the cars.
On the whole a good first attempt, and anyone that has not tried this type of photography, yes it is difficult
cheers
Ash.
Thank you Ash - and I have lots with fences - especially bearing in mind that I'm only 5'2
I'm still a learner on this Photoshop lark - perhaps I'm making them too small? I use ones I've "saved for web" on here - when I had the baby Canon it didn't matter, but now I've got a DSLR I find the file sizes a bit frightening. The original was 3888 x 2592, which I resized to 1280 on the longest size - then saved for web. Like I said, all suggestions and help is very welcome!
But here's a link to the original (without the subsequent edit) on flickr: Flickr large size
And Peter - I selected the white part of the wall itself, feathered and lowered the output levels slight. Can't find my notes on what else I did - apart from a slight level adjustment, and it was sharpened a bit.
I am no expert either - I like both shots very much and reading what others have said you have done very well. I think number one really stands out for me.
Ok Caz you say you resize and then save for web! Either do one or the other, resize for 700 on your longest side and aim for a file size of about 200k.
If you 'save for web' from the original you may get a message saying its too large, just ignore and carry on, theres an image resize tab to adjust size.
The save for web option gives you lots more variables to alter. I personally just resize image to 700 pixels and save as the file name and then web, alot quicker and easier.
Evertime you save a jpeg it loses some quality.
If I am working on what I would call a master copy image to enhance it but I no Ill have to do some more work on it later always save as a tiff file, this will not lose any quality and the next time you load it up in photoshop you can be asured that its exactly how you left it, there large file sizes but its worth it not to lose any quality.
This is how I do things, other people may do things differently but I find this works for me.
cheers
Ash.
Ok Caz you say you resize and then save for web! Either do one or the other, resize for 700 on your longest side and aim for a file size of about 200k.
If you 'save for web' from the original you may get a message saying its too large, just ignore and carry on, theres an image resize tab to adjust size.
The save for web option gives you lots more variables to alter. I personally just resize image to 700 pixels and save as the file name and then web, alot quicker and easier.
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This is how I do things, other people may do things differently but I find this works for me.
cheers
Ash.
Aha - that's where I'm going wrong: when I get the "too large" message I was going off and resizing! I haven't tried saving as a TIFF - have been saving as PSD (then going back and deleting when I'm done - I know my computer's got a bit hard drive - but!)
Thanks Ash - will try that tip.
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