2005 Cookstown 100

The Irish road racing season kicked off last weekend with the

Cookstown 100.

This is the 750cc support class.

Comments/ratings most welcome.

In the style of Cartier-Bresson.

Blacks are good, speed and movement is well shown with that blurring effect, compo is well balanced, but I would have liked to see a face. Not having it, feels like some lack of character of the image.

 

 

Thank-you for the comments.

This was supposed to be me making a stab a documenting the Irish road racing scene. Stupidly I only took one camera with me. It jammed on the second roll. Hopefully I'll get back over there for some more road racing later in the summer.

I know what you mean Nestor, I thought about that, it's not easy. You need a number of bikes bunched up so that somebody turns to watch the first bike go by as another comes through. Also the bikes are set off in groups of four for safety reasons, but now and again you can get them bunching up. There is lots of scope for interesting shots, and if I'd taken a second body....Shutter speed was 1/60th at f8, I'll try 1/30th next time.

Compossition good - could have been better to wait that fraction of a second to see the young mens faces and expresions- not enough happening in the picture

i love this photo alot.

i cant agree with the last comment. a secend later you will see ther face but the timing of the cuptcher make the strong feeling of waiting and wishing the raicers to be faster.

Muddy and muddled. Is there a point of focus? It appears to be soft throughout.

BND

Thank-you again for these comments.

Michael, I think the problem is, that if I get the faces and their expressions in the picture, well then there will be no bike, or if there is a bike it will appear to be in the wrong place. I felt the most important thing was the position of the bike.

Oh and thank-you for your kind comment and generous rating Kineret.

Hopefully later in the summer I'll get another chance to shoot some of the Irish Road Racing.

 

"Muddy and muddled. Is there a point of focus? It appears to be soft throughout. BND "

 

Paul (class of 62), It's shot with a 35mm prime at 1/60th of a second at about f8, I pre-focused on a bit of the road just in front of me. The print, I can assure you is pin sharp. You are looking at a highly compressed Jpeg at 72dpi, and as such it looks fine to me. Oh the bike is intentionally blurred.

 

 

I rather like this. The reaction of the spectators makes it an interesting shot. I might prefer even a little bit more motion blur on the bike, but it's very good as shot.

Paul

I like this! And as Paul said, the reaction of the spectators makes it. And composition is also good :-)