One of the best pictures I almost took - Twice

[Picturesports]

Drat !

http://www.picturesports.co.nz/potn/drat.jpg

Double Drat !!

http://www.picturesports.co.nz/potn/ddrat.jpg

and after that he stopped doing it.

I'm off to hide my shame :o

[Thameth]

Ouch! I HATE when that happens. Definitely would have been a portfolio type shot....

[hando]

If you have any other ones of that person showing the full helmet, photoshop them together to make one good one.

[crayfish13]

I've had a couple of those for far, and I did you photoshop to fix two of them and they both turned out great

[Picturesports]

Yep, photoshop is an option, but I'd rather take the photo than "fix it" in photoshop.

[agosling]

I don't like to be cruel but, to miss once is bad luck, to let it happen again is bad planning and should never happen.

[Crappy Snapper]

So how did you manage to miss both of them? They look like relatively simple head on shots. Were you too close?

[JuZ]

Have you tried cropping the first shot in really tightly?

[Picturesports]

"Being cruel ..." yep I go along with that :)

Interesting corner - you can only hear them coming. The shooting spot is in between the trees about 10 feet lower than the corner. There is a safety fence between you and the straight before the corner. The karts pop into view moving towards you and left to right. The safety fence effectively stops you picking up the kart early and following them to the apex.

The easy option is to go further away from the corner and get them on the down hill exit. Makes the photo a bit flat though. 300mm is the right length - I was trying 420 to see if I could get in nice and tight. The price you pay however, apart from getting ribbed here, is that when someone doesn't follow the established line through the corner (or close to it) you might miss the shot.

The other thing I noticed was just how much a x1.4 slows the auto focus down.

[sageone]

as the saying goes...close but no cigar!

[Crappy Snapper]

Oh, so at 420 there was not much room for error. The autofocus speed can be resolved by good old pre-focusing (with enough head room). Better luck next time.

[Skippy29]

Double Drat!

:lol:

[Jamie Holladay]

Oh man I know how you feel. Sorry dude.

[melita]

Just to rub salt in the wounds... they would have been really good shots!:rolleyes:

What camera are you using? If you've got enough megapixels, wouldn't it be better to stick with the 300mm and crop them tight when you get home, so you don't risk missing body parts?

Did you manage to get any other good shots, where everything was in the frame (even if the cart was on all four wheels)? Post a couple of them - you'll feel better and we'll get a treat! Judging by these, I'm sure you'll have some perfectly decent shots.

Go on, you know you want to :D

Kevin.

[Picturesports]

The other 200 or so where I got the drivers head in are on the web site. I'll pick a couple out for you to pass learned and considered judgement over.

The camaera is a 20D (until I talk the wife in the letting me buy a Mk3) and there is always the option to use Raw Shooter (RIP) to add in the pixels if required.

Bottom line, 300 is the way to go on that corner :cool:

[msu30uofm29]

I'd crop the top shot tighter and you are good. Who cares about the top of the dudes helmet. Clippin' the curve is what's cool.

[Picturesports]

Two I managed to get right

http://www.picturesports.co.nz/potn/110307-1.jpg

That time around I was ready for him (3rd time lucky) but he had changed his line by then

http://www.picturesports.co.nz/potn/110307-2.jpg

This chap is cool. Full drift on cold tyres and looking at me in the trees - or is he picking a spot to crash in to ?

[4g63photo]

Here is my attempt at photoshoping the helmat back on.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b264/fernie94/Untitled-1.jpg

[Picturesports]

Now that's cool. :cool: