R/C Cars

**EvilBoB** · 23rd September 2009

Dug out my 300D last weekend to take some photos at the local BMX track of me and some mates with our R/C cars. They are very fast and it's good practise taking these sorts of photos. Anyway, here's a few of my favourites from Sunday.

**dpSparhawk** · 23rd September 2009

What a great series of shots.

The first two have captured the dirt being kicked up by the tyres superbly. I particularly like the way in number 2, you've kept the body of the car in perfect focus, frozen the movement of the wheels yet somehow captured the motion in the actual tyres.

The colour tones in #2 are bang on. Perfect for the subject.. Bit of alteration and you could almost have a martian rover of sorts

Number 3 is a crackin capture in respect to the car being airborn. What lets this image down though is the background and the position of the car. I think I'd like to see LOTS more DoF. Nice sharp background details as well as the car. With regards to the position, I'd have liked to have seen the car higher in the frame so we get more perception of how high it is off the ground. However I appreciate that capturing these is quite tough so can understand possibly having just missed the positioning. I'd have liked to have seen a freeze frame of the landing

I do really like these images though.

**afc_man** · 23rd September 2009

Evilbob would this be the track at willen?

**peterc4** · 24th September 2009

nice set like em all hard to pick

**dpSparhawk** · 25th September 2009

lol Pete, there's only 3 images

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I do wish you'd say what you like about them rather than simply "number 3 for me" or "can't choose"

**EvilBoB** · 25th September 2009

Originally Posted by afc_man

Evilbob would this be the track at willen?

'fraid not. This is Dunstable BMX track. I still want to get out to Willen as that looks pretty interesting.

Thanks for all the kind words. This is the first time I've done any action photography so it was a bit of a learning exercise and the focus was my biggest problem but I'm getting the hang of it. It was lots of zooming in and out and manually adjusting the focus fast enough to get the pics. The one of the Baja jumping was probably the most difficult to take and I wasn't that impressed with the results. I was quite a distance away which didn't help as my big lens is a cheapo one that I bought for about �40! Can't justify the official Canon one but I've borrowed a friends in the past and it's MUCH better.