A few track pictures

[tangman99]

While I'm going to be busy tearing down my bike after the crash at the track a couple of weeks ago, I thought I'd post up a couple of pictures I just got back from the track photographer when it was still in one piece. Too bad they didn't get any sequence pictures of the crash they often capture but they were not on this turn. The last two are on my wife's GXSR-600 that I did double duty on the rest of the weekend as we run in different classes.

 

[monsinour]

whats really odd to me atleast. the shutter speed of the camera is soo fast that you are not a blur on the bike nor is the bike a blur either, but the tires on the bike are a blur. Odd. Not a cycle fan, but cool pics.

 

[tangman99]

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Originally Posted by Monsinour http:///forum/thread/382042/a-few-track-pictures#post_3331585
whats really odd to me atleast. the shutter speed of the camera is soo fast that you are not a blur on the bike nor is the bike a blur either, but the tires on the bike are a blur. Odd. Not a cycle fan, but cool pics.
I don't know jack about cameras and when I try to take pictures like this I either get everything blurred or an empty frame, but these guys do it for a living and do capture different affects such as background blur. I have no idea how they get them so crisp. The second picture is coming out of the apex of turn 1 on the throttle at about 100mph and you can see the treads on the tires so they must be using a very high shutter speed.

 

[monsinour]

How a camera works 101
its a very dark room with this special paper on the wall. it is photo sensitive. the longer it is exposed to light, the brighter the paper gets. When exposed to light for a split second, it "takes a picture" of what was seen out the opening. Now, the length of time that door is open letting in the light is called shutter speed. The longer the door is open, the better the picture will be IF the subjects do not move. For fast moving subjects, such as bikes going 100 mph, you need to split that spilt second up into a million and then use one of those for the open and close to ensure that your subject is in focus and not blurred.
So for those of you who try to take pics of your fish and they dont come out cuz the fish is moving, adjust the shutter speed to a faster position, say 1/2000, and give that a whirl.
But again, the bike and you are going at the same speed, if you and the bike are in focus, the tires should be as well. Maybe because the wheels are going around and that somehow the tires are moving faster than the bike they become blurred. cameras make wierd optical illusions like the car moving forward yet the tires appear to be moving backwards.

 

[cranberry]

In the first few pics, the tires are as in focus as the spokes. In the last pic is not, as it is out of focus due the the cameras aperture not shutter speed.
Those pics are AWESOME!