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70-200 VR at the races (MotoGP)

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Nice pictures, Sander. Iwas there on Friday, but left my D70 at home because I thought the 70-200 f2.8 would't have enough reach. Now I see yours I regret I did, but perhaps you didn't take your pics from the public areas, but had access to better positions?
 
Great shots. I was wonderring if these are crops or are they the whole shot? You must be pretty close if they are the full shot. How fast are they coming off the corner, b/c with how tight you have them, this does not look like and easy shot to get, lots of pan.

Adam
 
Thanks.

Here is the full frame of the Rossi photo:



Another example is this one:



edited crop:



So, some are pretty frame filling, some others were smaller and from others I had to crop quite a lot. But even from the latter I kept a file bigger that 2000px on the wide side. I think that in the best cases I was 7 to 10m from the nearest part of the track with the riders mostly on the other side of the track. A couple of meters extra makes a lot of difference.

I do not exactly know how fast they are going on the part along the wall. They have had some time to accelerate, so I guess somewhere between 150 and 190kmh or so (their top speed at this track is about 320kmh or so). I had to move along with the bikes very quickly. I made 1000 exposures and kept app. 350. Out of those app 100 are of this quality.

I had the camera in AF-C and the lens focussed very fast. Even the bikes that I picked up very late with the lens still at the wrong end of the focus scale went from total blur to focussed in no-time. Not one focus miss, only blur because of wrong pans. :)

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Sander
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Sounds like you had a fun day. 1000 shots is crazy to consider if you weren't digital. Looking at your uncropped results, I might like them a bit more then the crops. I think getting some frame around the rider gives a nicer sense of the space and motion. A little rule of thirds never hurt nothing is my opinion.

Happy hunting,
Adam
 
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