Thruxton British Motorcycle Championships

Iansky

Senior Member
I have not been on here for a while due to the problems I had trying to create and load posts with photos even though I had no issues with other sites, thought I would try again and hope that previous issues I and others have experienced have been resolved - fingers crossed as I still consider this the best Nikon forum.

I went to Thruxton circuit on Sun to try my hand at photographing motorcycle racing (only tried once before with a non Nikon.......). I took the D500 with the 300mm f4 PF and the 24-120mm but stuck with the 300mm all day.
Limited locations to shoot from to avoid fencing so I decided to grab a couple of shots at the chicane and then moved round to track side so I had a view of a bend and part of the straight so could get some shots of the pack and some panning shots as they came by.
Very hot and sunny which resulted in a lot of heat haze which meant long shots were suffering from the haze from the track and the sun shining towards spectators / photographic locations so a challenge.
This is only a small circuit by many foreign standards but a fast one, alas having limited access to good photo locations makes it more of a challenge.
These are some of the images from the day.

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Woodyg3

Senior Member
Contributor
Thanks Roy,

It was a superb event just spoiled by the heat haze - the challenges of photography.

Yeah, the heat shimmer problem has ruined a lot of opportunities for me, especially when shoot planes at airports, so all the heat radiates off the tarmac. Same problem with motorcycle racing. Your pics are great, though, so no worries. :)
 

editorial_use_only

Senior Member
Your stuff looks good. I see work from credentialed media that isn't as nice. My compliments. Also, thanks for including shooting data.

Couple questions, comments. How much sharpening did you do? How much cropping did you do? If you find you're doing a lot of cropping, then you might find a TC14 helpful. In your higher SS shots, instead of f/8, f/4 might help with some subject isolation.
 
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