MX

It's been awhile since i've done any motorsport photography but today i happened to visit some friends when they were playing on their ramp jumps.
I took a bunch of shots with a VERY cheap telezoom which was the only lens i had with me.Most were out of focus of course but the odd shot turned out
D*mn i have to work on my timing .Most shots could have been better
simply by shooting half a second earlier.....

The best shot but not the most interesting-

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I like the second one because its looking underneath him. Its a different style shot then the usual that you see. Freestyle motocross is hard to get the perfect timing because each guy does a trick at different times in the air. everyone has their own style. These shots look great though. Keep up the FMX shooting.

Josh

Great captures!

Looks like you had some pretty harsh light, especially on the second one. Being an older MX'er, I like the first one. Has a classic style to it.
I'm a bit puzzled as to why you "Kept missing his head touching the seat" on the third one. Couldn't you just shoot a burst of shots?
Regardless, other than the highlights on the second, they're a great series of shots.

Yes a series of shots would be ideal ,but the 300D just isn't quite quick enough to get more than one usefull image per jump . At 3 frames per sec it should be in theory - maybe the slow focussing lens made it worse (a sigma 70-300 DL macro -non APO)

The harsh light in the second shot is mostly wrongly done post proccessing.It's good to have others critique like this -the mistakes i'd take ages to spot are easily noticable to others

How long since you've raced HRC?
I was most serious in the mid eighties myself.

As far as the slow focussing goes, when we used to have a motocross national fairly nearby, I used to pre-focus manually. I pretty much leave the MX photography up to Racer-X now , but read somewhere that photographers are still doing this to avoid those kind of problems.
Even with landscapes, I focus on, for example, a foreground interest, then switch to MF. Works great.
Ah, let's see, my last race must have been in 2003. I started racing in 1982 and raced pretty steady until 1997. I still have a bike ('03 CRF450R) but, now a days, it's just riding for fun.

What do you know about dual-sport rides in Australia Ron? A buddy of mine's dream is to spend a couple of weeks over there, one of them on a bike.

cool stuff, man. i feel your pain with the sigma 70-300. i have the newer one, but as i told some moto buddies, it's slower than a '93 kx125 with a rag in the airbox!

wp.

Now that's slow......LOL

I shoot this stuff pretty regular and I have pretty good luck with actually tracking the bike in servo, and normally use partial or center weighted metering.

Oh and speaking of riding / racing.......here's the old man (me).......yesturday..​....shot by a buddy of mine.