New Photos: Motocross

[TurbeauxREX]

After seeing nothing but the four walls of our hotel room for 6 days I ventured out to the local motocross track here in north Houston, where we are staying since being evacuated for Hurricane Katrina. The track is awesome, with 3 full-sized tracks, 1 supercross and 2 pee-wee tracks, plus a lake for jet-ski and water skiing. It was good to just get out and shoot and forget about the death & destruction that has overcome my hometown.

Photos are here: http://www.pbase.com/cvbjr/tx_mx_905&page=all

Images are straight from the camera with only minor sharpening added when they were re-sized in Breezebrowser. No cropping done, yet, so composition may be somewhat askew in some of the images. Constructive criticism is always welcomed.

Peace,

Curtis

SAMPLES:

[Verdugo]

Nice shots man...panning's something I'm still trying to get the hang of

[ynotajb]

awesome shots that looks like fun

[c00lbeans]

very good pans. what camera and lens.i cant think of much to criticize. some croping and a little toning and they are ready to be published in a mag

[chanwahyaoh]

Like the others said - your panning is great. especially in that 2nd shot to be able to follow the rider's trajectory. Great work!

[Yodaman]

Sweet pans, nice and sharp. The only thing I notice is alot of the shots could benefit from some fill flash. Other than that they look AWESOME .

[TurbeauxREX]

Thanks for the kind words, guys. Your comments regarding cropping, etc are well received. The images posted here and in my gallery were straight from the camera. I wanted to post them up ASAP as I had a couple of the mini-bike kids calling me asking "I'm so & so on bike XYZ.. Where's my picture?" So, no time for editing.

coolbeans: equipment - Canon 1D (original) w/ 70-200 2.8 L IS & 550 EX flash on the sky shots.

Ben: your comments on the fill-flash are well-received. I used it on the shots with the sky in the back ground; however, this was a tough shot due to shooting into the direction of the sun and wanting to maintain a slow shutter speed. I believe all of them were at 1/160th and slower. That was the best balance that I could acheive using only the cameras LCD and histogram. Not perfect, but plenty to work with, which I probably won't do (just because I hate editing). This outing was more therapuetic than anything else for me. We evacuated to Houston and had been sitting in a hotel room for 6 days. I just went to the track to forget about the death & destruction that I'm going back to later this week.

Peace,

Curtis

[Yodaman]

Thanks for the kind words, guys. Your comments regarding cropping, etc are well received. The images posted here and in my gallery were straight from the camera. I wanted to post them up ASAP as I had a couple of the mini-bike kids calling me asking "I'm so & so on bike XYZ.. Where's my picture?" So, no time for editing.

coolbeans: equipment - Canon 1D (original) w/ 70-200 2.8 L IS & 550 EX flash on the sky shots.

Ben: your comments on the fill-flash are well-received. I used it on the shots with the sky in the back ground; however, this was a tough shot due to shooting into the direction of the sun and wanting to maintain a slow shutter speed. I believe all of them were at 1/160th and slower. That was the best balance that I could acheive using only the cameras LCD and histogram. Not perfect, but plenty to work with, which I probably won't do (just because I hate editing). This outing was more therapuetic than anything else for me. We evacuated to Houston and had been sitting in a hotel room for 6 days. I just went to the track to forget about the death & destruction that I'm going back to later this week.

Peace,

Curtis

Sorry to hear that Curtis . Photography / motorsports is definetly a good getaway I am sure. Hope all is well.

[Trailboss]

Very cool, as usual. Must be nice to get out like you said and forget about the recent events.

[TurbeauxREX]

Thanks, Josh & Ben. Actually, we returned home on Wednesday night (9/07). Spent the day yesterday checking on my Dad's house and shooting pics in the surrounding areas - Metairie & Kenner in Jefferson Parish; pretty ugly. Military Police and National Guard are everywhere. I'll post some pics in a new thread as soon I as go through them.

Peace,

Curtis