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 Post subject: Nikon D3100 at my BMX track near my house
PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:44 am 
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Here is a picture I took (out of the 280), bare in mind this is the first time I shoot action sports in motion, so I will take c&c but don't blast the crap out of me please I tried my best :)

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 Post subject: Re: Nikon D3100 at my BMX track near my house
PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:40 am 
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Looks like a mean track thingy :)

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 Post subject: Re: Nikon D3100 at my BMX track near my house
PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:21 am 
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focus is off or something.
looks like you photoshopped him onto a blurry picture.
but I know little to nothing about photography let alone motion photography.

still looks pretty cool though.

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 Post subject: Re: Nikon D3100 at my BMX track near my house
PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:55 pm 
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A little more tweaking was needed. The shutter speed should have been either faster if you wanted to have a motion blur effect, slow it down a bit more and follow his movement for at least 25/1"(sec). For a stronger and softer blur (usually good for portraits mainly), you could've settled for a wide aperture, 100 ISO, and a faster shutter speed. Also, the angle the photo was taken doesn't give the enhanced illusion of height. Btw, if you're gonna do a lot more outdoor shoots, I suggest getting a circular polarizer for the lens - cheap ones will probably run around $20-$50 for a decent piece. That will greatly benefit enhancing the colors, reducing haze, and placing more focus on the focal point.

Just my 2 cents. =p

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 Post subject: Re: Nikon D3100 at my BMX track near my house
PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:32 pm 
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A little more tweaking was needed. The shutter speed should have been either faster if you wanted to have a motion blur effect, slow it down a bit more and follow his movement for at least 25/1"(sec). For a stronger and softer blur (usually good for portraits mainly), you could've settled for a wide aperture, 100 ISO, and a faster shutter speed. Also, the angle the photo was taken doesn't give the enhanced illusion of height. Btw, if you're gonna do a lot more outdoor shoots, I suggest getting a circular polarizer for the lens - cheap ones will probably run around $20-$50 for a decent piece. That will greatly benefit enhancing the colors, reducing haze, and placing more focus on the focal point.

Just my 2 cents. =p


Was hoping you'd comment on it, I will post pictures of "better" shots, after this picture I started to try out the "double" sports mode on the camera (lol?) increasing the iso to 1250 the pictures did get better, and then at around 7:45pm I started taking pictures with the flash and most of them suck to be honest but some of them looked pretty darn cool with the flash focus on the target and everything else is blurred out!

I will be updating the thread once I upload more pictures and I hope you can comment more about it :)

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 Post subject: Re: Nikon D3100 at my BMX track near my house
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If you want a cleaner, sharper picture with as little noise as possible, limit the ISO to 800. I normally would suggest using Time value (shutter priority) mode, then Aperture mode, then manual if you want to go slowly on getting a good grasp of the camera. Just keep playing around with it for now. You can also download an e-book (Nikon D3100 For Dummies, etc) just so you can have a good guide - if you can't find one, let me know - I'll go look for one.

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 Post subject: Re: Nikon D3100 at my BMX track near my house
PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:13 pm 
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Will go have a look when I get the chance, at school at the moment in a break, *sigh* back to college life reality... anyways I will try and get something going on, wednesday (only time I have a day off apart from the week-ends...)

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