What Is Good Trial Picture?

[tbone]

Hello Flywheel

You have good kit and are trying to frame your shots. The angle of your shots are often hampered by where the light / sun is in the best place so use fill in flash as has been mentioned is a great trick. Take sacrifisial shots of first riders through the section and don't take all your shots on the same settings. back in the day 2 rolls of 36 was all I could afford but today you can fire off a couple of hundred. I would be happy with only a hand full of great shots out of that. Although the cameras are slr's it all happens real quick so I would recommend using (THE FORCE) lol it comes down to luck and sticking at it. Cheers tbone.

[randy_k]

Have a read

http://digital-photography-school.com/digital-photography-tips-for-beginners/

[laird387]

I have been taken couple of years pictures in some national competions for our club only. But I have started to wonder what is good trial picture and why.

Here are some examples:

http://hameenmoottor...13/DSC_3074.JPG :This migh be ok but I was testing the auto setting for the focus area with bad results as you can see. Never use focus area auto setting but only central focus area!!

http://hameenmoottor...13/DSC_3096.JPG : is the attitude or dynamic what there should be in the picture?

http://hameenmoottor...13/DSC_3280.JPG : Is it necessary to make the situation look dangerous?

http://hameenmoottor...13/DSC_3333.JPG http://hameenmoottor...13/DSC_3570.JPG http://hameenmoottor...al/DSC_2051.JPG : Should the situation look like impossible?

http://hameenmoottor...13/DSC_3680.JPG : Or when photographer scears to get hurt and start to think escape?

To me these pictures look ok but usually trial pictures what I have see in the magazines are different. They are often presenting driver as in portrait and only part of bike. is this because the text is about the driver not about driving?

What is your opinion what makes good trial picture?

Hi,

First rule taught to me sixty years ago was - keep your horizon level - there are simple 'spirit level' devices available very cheaply that will clip into the flashgun mount.

This is another 'view' of your photograph that could make more impact in a magazine, for example?

Regards

[sherconoob]

i think i mentioned it on another thread, but with basic photoshop skills you can fake the blurred background.

i take snapshots from videos so that i can give riders an image to print out if they want. the background can be blurred easily in photoshop to make sure the focus is on the rider. it's pretty obvious when you look for it but i only spend about 30 secs on these.