BMX Photography
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21 Aug 2008, 22:34
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Went to the local indoor skatepark with a friend of mine (BMX'er) and took my camera for a change since it's the first time I've taken this kind of photography!
After ages trying to get the right shutter speeds and figuring out when to shoot due to the fucking shutter lag I think I had a decent setup with the built-in flash.
I'd appreciate your feedback on the shots I took
some jumps, some flatland!
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Just a small note I'd like to add. The guy doing the flatland stuff won a few of the amateur competitions at the NASS festival, he's good :D
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fucked up the URL to #4 as it's a duplicate to #8. Fixed D:::
After ages trying to get the right shutter speeds and figuring out when to shoot due to the fucking shutter lag I think I had a decent setup with the built-in flash.
I'd appreciate your feedback on the shots I took
some jumps, some flatland!
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edit:
Just a small note I'd like to add. The guy doing the flatland stuff won a few of the amateur competitions at the NASS festival, he's good :D
edit 2:
fucked up the URL to #4 as it's a duplicate to #8. Fixed D:::
you got talent for this !
I tried a 'slower' shutter speed than normal so I could pan my shot, yet keep the subject nice and sharp, hence the reason for trying flash! Quite low lighting conditions in the building so I couldn't achieve the shutter speed I wanted.
Thanks for the comment :)))
2 possibilities: if u have too much time on ur hands, use higher iso and remove the noise manualy in photoshop, wich usually makes the picture kinda plastic-looking.
you could also try shooting with 400 iso and shutterspeed like 1/125 (in RAW-format this gives a little bit lighter image but it has less contrast than jpeg). it will become too dark, so use fotoshop to get it lighter again, altough the contrast gets fucked by this.
I'll be getting a new camera xmas time so I'll be able to achieve a few more stuff compared to my Fuji s9000 so far \m/
Although it is an option if I have time for such shots when I go back to the skatepark :)
ohyea, try holding something in front of the flash, so it sort of reflects backwards, it still gives the flash but wont make the body like jesus ;)
At least the 450D will be nice, and I'd be able to make an action sequence shot of a rider in various positions on the jump :_D
they produce better camera's than canon imo (altough i have a nikon D50 myself for 2 years now)
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Get yourself an air-rifle and shoot birds lad xD
I'm an avid bird watching meight! I don't care what they did 'back in your day' old man :D
Like I said, get an Airgun and shoot some bloody pidgeons ffs...
btw, wheres my coastal wallpaper without the dinosaur birds on the thing?
I used to have an air rifle but that was just for target shooting, not at birds. Although I wouldn't mind one right now to shoot some cunting crows in the garden :{
seriously tho, u did a coastal pic I really liked...There was some fucking albatrosses on it, so I commented and the Journal got deleted I guess......
need that same pic without pterodactyls on the fucking thing ...:)
My photostream = http://flickr.com/photos/inyunyyn/
shit, I did a real nice pic from my window overlooking the rhein with a 3.1 kodak digital camera...the sky was amazing, so many colours...I only got an A4 size print out of it now tho :(
those mongol gulls were swooping at me, I think their nest was close as I climbed up the cliff onto the ledge :D
I have a pile of shots from that evening somewhere on my ext hdd. I'll have a look in the morning for a similar shot without the gulls and I'll PM you!
btw, one of the best weekends I ever had was at Cemaes Bay visiting a mate who was in the air force with me.......get yer self up there its gorgeous for photography..
I much prefer the coastline along the south (Glamorgan heritage coast <3) examples = here :>
thats a beaut. (I miss my sea, was brought up on coast here :-
Wish I lived near the sea. All I got around me are small mining/steel towns in the valleys :D
concerning the blurry pics, a faster shutter speed and play around with the lightning in general next time
the pictures of the guy wearing no tshirt are the best for me in terms of sharpness, but his body is over enlightened + you should've used a higher ISO
nice pics btw, great work :)
Build-in flash indeed, I tried messing around with the various options you have like fill flash + red eye reduction (which did work well with the dual flash it has!)
Was shooting at ISO 400 as mentioned. I'll be going back soon so will try some stuff as mentioned in this journal (RAW + high ISO like you mentioned)
Body was pretty much that light due to the flash, but if I spent more time editing the shot I'm sure I could have sort that out :@)
and yeah working in RAW is best .. IF you have the abilities ofc (e.g. big memory card)
I guess you don't need an external flash for landscape and wildlife pics, so you can carry on with the internal one without spending on that, just mess around and remember the good ol' saying :p Good photography comes with experience. Experience comes from bad photography!
I myself need to buy an external flash, a local club contacted me for party pics :D
was thinking about the (SB-600 or) SB-900 which is like 400€ in total, need to save some money for that atm :p
Will you be getting paid etc for taking those party shots then?
With most of the photography I do I've never really used a flash, but if I do need one for macro, I'm sure a built-in with an home made diffuser* would be good enough.
*The DIY diffuser is usually done with a coke can cut up with some kitchen paper on the front, don't know if you seen them? :P
and yes I've seen it on youtube, pretty nice (and cheap) alternative indeed :D
can't seem to find the link atm :( it's in my bookmarks at my other laptop (will post it if I find it)
edit got it: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RNCmuExlHvM&feature=user
http://www.flickr.com/groups/macroviewers/discuss/72157594312315664/
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and well.. taking pics of animals or landscapes with this is no problem, but do you see ppl walking around with this on parties/weddings? you're kidding me right :D
Anyway, sleep time for me, we got a big continental market in our town in the morning, so I will be up there trying to get some nice candid shots :P
NN!
same here btw, nn and hf tomorrow!