I'll get bored of posting these thread evetually I promise - Pics from Castle Combe's Historic weekend

However this time i got fancy and attempted the panning shots discussed so readily in my last thread and shown off wonderfully by MudPuddy in her Knockhill thread.

Results were very mixed with every 1 good pic being outnumbered by half a dozen blurry ones. Ah well practice makes perfect!

Thanks for looking again and comments welcome - apart from you Joey in which case keep schtum!!

Nice series. I haven't had a chance to shoot any motor sport yet, I'll defo get out there and have a go in the near future.

Have a go at shooting in shutter priority and crank the shutter speed up a bit. 1/40 is a bit slow for fast moving cars. I would try 1/200 and above, should help with the bluring you are experiencing and give you a sharper image. Play around with the shutter speed until you find the right setting. Set white balance and ISO to auto.

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I like!

Is that Evo "Matt Black" ?? Looks tidy..

Glad you liked my Knockhill pics, thanks very much

Nice set of pics there 1 picture out of every half dozen's not bad ... I took close to 1300 pics when I went last, over half went straight in the bin due to blurriness (or not enough motion blur!)... a good tip for motorsport photography is take LOTS of pictures and there's bound to be some you're happy with

I stick my camera on shutter priority, usually at 1/200 sec but sometimes slower, I don't tend to go below 1/80 sec. It's not only the cars that make slower shutter speeds more tricky but light levels too ... if it's a bright day you'll get too much light in the pic and you start to lose detail. And please don't get bored of posting 'em ... we like car pics

Have a go at shooting in shutter priority and crank the shutter speed up a bit. 1/40 is a bit slow for fast moving cars. I would try 1/200 and above, should help with the bluring you are experiencing and give you a sharper image. Play around with the shutter speed until you find the right setting. Set white balance and ISO to auto.

I stick my camera on shutter priority, usually at 1/200 sec but sometimes slower, I don't tend to go below 1/80 sec.

:confused::confused::confused: - to be honest it was my first experimenting and i have barely worked out the terminology, what chainging each thing actually does or which setting actually worked best!

Is there a "Digital SLR Photography for Dummies?"

It's not only the cars that make slower shutter speeds more tricky but light levels too ... if it's a bright day you'll get too much light in the pic and you start to lose detail

probably about half the number of blurry ones were ruined by being far too light

This photography thing is a lot trickier once you move away from that Auto setting!

Is that Evo "Matt Black" ?? Looks tidy..

Yup its corporate colours of a Gloucester garage called AJEC Racing - run that Evo and an equally stupidly powerful E36 M3

Is there a "Digital SLR Photography for Dummies?"

Yes. Digital SLR Cameras and Photography for Dummies: Amazon.co.uk: David D. Busch: Books

The command dial on top of the camera will have an "S" setting. This will put the camera in shutter priority mode. Once set you will be able to tell the camera what shutter speed you require and the camera will set the appropriate aperture size. That way you only have one thing to worry about.

Shutter speed adjustments will be made by turning the thumb wheel on the front or back. Sorry but I don't know where they are on the Canon:confused:

Have a look in the menu for white balance and make sure this is set to auto, same with ISO. Again I don't know if you have a dedicated button for this or if you need to go into the menu for it.

Defo get yourself one of these. It explains everything in an easy to understand way + you can rewind and view again if you don't get it the first time. Canon 450D / 1000D Camera Training DVD, Tutorial, Learn on eBay, also, DVDs, DVD, Film TV (end time 22-Jun-09 21:54:20 BST)

Have a read here too if you haven't already http://photography-on-the.net/forum/

There is a lot to take in, I've been shooting for around a year and a half and still don't fully understand everything:O There's a huuuuge learning curve to DSLRs but I really enjoy it.

You have a nice camera there so stick at it and you will see results:thumbup:

Priotity aperture (?) and priorirty shutter speed are down (randomly) as Tv and Av on the 1000D

I had a bit of a read of manual and books and couldn't decide which i needed to change so played with them both although no idea what setting were reulted in the easiest snapping and best pics

more research and much more practice needed

Priotity aperture (?) and priorirty shutter speed are down (randomly) as Tv and Av on the 1000D

I had a bit of a read of manual and books and couldn't decide which i needed to change so played with them both although no idea what setting were reulted in the easiest snapping and best pics

more research and much more practice needed

My bad. Tv is shutter priority:O

This might help

1 minute 19sec for shutter speed info.

Sorry to confuse you ... what I should've said was just experiment with the settings til things start to look right That's how I'm learning to take better photos; I haven't ever read my camera manual or any books, I just banned myself from using the auto setting.

There are some good sources of info on the net too, try this forum