Action Shots, Comments and Advice Please

these two shots are my latest attempts, I would welcome your comments and advice on how to improve, I know one thing is I need to be zoomed in more,

Hey nodrogart,

Your background is really interfering with the subject in these shots. One of the photographers should be able to help with the technical info, basically I think you need to decrease the depth of field and have a really fast shutter speed so your subject is sharp and crisp and the background is more blurred. Either that or stick to backgrounds without much going on – flat sky would be fine, or snow or water, but most other things are going to cause issues.

What do you think?

I agree with Damien. These shots are nice but the background really detracts from the figure. Try panning with the subject and decreasing your shutter speed to < 1/60 second to blur the background and give a sense of motion. Alternatively you could increase the size of the aperture (i.e. make the f stop number smaller) in your camera to blur the background. Look fwd to seeing more of your stuff.

Thanks Guys, Appreciate the comments, Will give it some thought and do a few more tries, the only problem with having a larger f stop is that the whole area is surrounded by trees, so I need lots of life,. but thanks again.

Not a bad try, but I concur with what the others have said. They might have looked better had the background not been so “busy”.

You might want to check out this site. This woman is a client of a business I used to work for, and her shots always blew me away. She has an uncanny knack for framing action shots perfectly.

http://www.quickshots.co.nz/

i love the back ground,its really different from the norm bike shots and makes it really interesting viewing.

Try to remember the “rule of thirds”. Have your subject fill 1/3 of the frame (roughly) They’re too teeny weeny here and have no presence in the frame.