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hrry

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So today i went to the Olympic Gold medalists training ground.
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Feedback please?
 
None of them really stand out to me. I prefer number 4 of the bunch, I like the focus. They all seem underexposed and out of focus.
 
They all have alot of motion blur. I understand that your equipment may not allow a faster shutter speed, so you should try panning with the action to get the subject sharp. (a monopod helps ALOT with panning)

The white balance seems to cool on all of them to me, and they are all underexposed.
 
They all have alot of motion blur. I understand that your equipment may not allow a faster shutter speed, so you should try panning with the action to get the subject sharp. (a monopod helps ALOT with panning)

The white balance seems to cool on all of them to me, and they are all underexposed.

Panning was done here I'm guessing. #3 looks like a pretty good panning job. I agree they're a bit dark though.

Looks like a pretty difficult photo-taking experience.
 
All of them are underexposed with too much blur, your ISO should have been at ISO1600 or 3200, was F5.6 your maximum aperture ?
 
Thanks for the feedback i did get a few shots where i froze the action but the panning shots are a 1/30 (my camera goes to 1/8000) . ISO was at 800.
They do look underexposed what can i do next time to get it right?

Number one is at 3.5 aperture and the panning shots are at 8.0 is this right?
 
For indoor shots like these, you want the widest aperature possible to keep your shutter speeds fast enough to reduce motion blur.
 
Number one is at 3.5 aperture and the panning shots are at 8.0 is this right?

It depends on what you're going for. Aperture doesn't matter for depth of field much when panning.. since you blur the background anyway. Whatever helps get the desired shutter speed in that case. You could try using shutter priority for panning shots.. might help with getting proper exposure (it will pick the aperture automatically.. and the ISO if you have it set to auto in camera).
 
1/30 is a bit too slow unless you are very good at panning, i do shoot lots at 1/30 but a bit faster is better this was shot at 1/60
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For exposure, matrix isn't always the metering mode to use.

I use spot mode almost exclusively, when I don't meter incident/strobed light with a hand held meter.
 
If 3.5 is your largest aperture, then you should have used f3.5. If your lens has IS with 2 modes, then you should switch to the mode that only stabilizes vertically. And 1/30s shutter is too long even when you are trying to keep the background motion blur... at 1/30s, EVERYTHING gets blurry and thats not what you want. I realize that you might have used such a long shutter speed because you were trying to get enough light, but shooting wide open would have been the better option. You can also raise the ISO, but on the Canon 20D, I suspect that the 800ISO you used is about it. You could have tried 1600ISO, but it might get pretty noisy.
 
Yeah 1600 is too noisy, i will experiment next time with 3.5 and 1/60 shutter. I did use flash a couple times but i didn't want to blind the riders :D
Thanks Guys.
Looks nothing compared to Gary's but it's lighter than my original.
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BTW, if you're shooting RAW, you can bring up the exposure in PP by a couple of Ev without much, if any, negative impact.
 

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