Jimmy eat your heart out!!

[ashleyb4]

Ive taken a few pics at Oswestry tonight it was very dark down there i used a camera i borrow from college i know its not a dslr but it seems ok at taking pictures it has a 28-300mm lens on it and it seems ok i thought it just looked the buisness but it seems to do the buisness to sorta need more practise at panning.

Bit far away this one



This one if my favriot of the night phil channons x6 I think this onelooks really good


Again this one is abit far away dont really want to edit them its set to low quality as it is to saveon memory but so far ive taken 55 pics and its not full.



My xx4 being destroyed by craig jones


Hue and Jamie racing for the corner


Matts car someing into the corner i think this is a bit blury hard to tell on thumbnails



Jamies T3


Jamies t3 again but this time going out of shot sorta run out of turning in my body god jimmy must be able to spin round 360




And of course everyone ges these shots when taking pics lol



To fast!!

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[ashleyb4]

And this is what happens when you let mike elliot loose with your car



rolly polly

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[ashleyb4]

What do you reacon guys???

Also need some help with some settings after the sorta succes of tonight i want to giv eit a go at kiddy on sunday. Ive read your tips and tricks jimmy but still alittle confused as i can change the F number in a few diffrent ways and i think it will go up to 8 but there is this other number that goes up to 4000 at the side of it Confused. There is also i setting on the camera which looks like a man running so im thinking this maybe a sorta highs peed mode which blurs background etc but focuses on the foreground. Help!!

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[josh_smaxx]

You want the lowest F number with the highest shutter speed (the one that goes up to 4000) as a basic rule of thumb

[Stu]

They are really good Ash, I think that Jimmy will be, as you say, 'eating his heart out'.

[Mrs oOple]

You have some good shots there Ash, it can't be easy taking photos of fast moving cars in poor light. My photos mostly come out like that grassy one at the end!
Well done, keep up the good work

[Chris Green]

The 2 settings you are on about are Aperture Size (F2.8 to F8 or so), and Shutter speed (measured in seconds (needing a tripod), tens, hundreds & thousands of seconds).

I'm sure a better photographer than me will correct me if wrong, but this is how I understand it (in my laymans terms)....

The aperture is used to set depth of field. This is basically how much of the photo will be in focus. An aperture setting of F2.8 will have the foreground in focus, and the background blurred.

The shutter speed is how long the shutter of the camera stays open. A low shutter speed can be used to achieve motion in some shots (if you pan with the moving object). A high shutter speed can capture the action better, but sometimes the photo's can lack any sign of movement, and make the cars appear stationary.

Does this help?