Redbull XFighters Exhibition Tour

[luntut]

First time doing such events, and in a pretty interesting lighting condition, at least to me.

Some of the more usable shots.


2 of the best riders of the night, together with the hot lady MC..

[luntut]

Cropping and some slight tweeking of brightness and contrast done only. No idea why my black sky keeps getting overbloomed.....

[kelvint81]

Nice shots.
What setup you are using?

[harper]

nice

[luntut]

Originally Posted by kelvint81 Nice shots. What setup you are using?

THanks.
Me using D300 + 70-200 + SB-900.

Originally Posted by harper nice

THanks bro.
Was quite tough for me actually. fighting gastric as I was shooting, left after round 2 cos i could no longer stand upright from the pain... so din get much photos. sigh.

[R1szuan]

not bad man..sharp pic... mine ended up worst... si beh blur man..

[haqeel]

wow. sharp one u have there. out of 43shots, only 2 were sharp. damn sad.
cos its my first time shooting these kinds, and i had to focus manually cos my lens is very old and it focus damn slow.. nice one (:

[Jay Tan]

wow... very nice shots

[alexljy]

Nice photos

I had a huge trouble focusing as well. Didnt think about using flash, and was late so didnt had front row stands. Hopefully there ll be another one next year.

[BlindSpot]

Me too, me too, the focusing part is slow on my S5IS. Even trying to use ext flash to enable fast shutter, with slow focusing all my pics bombed.

Action was so fast that no time to really go into manual focusing properly. Tried to focus lock also fail. Instead switch to videoing which turned out to be more rewarding.

Think I need more practice on night shot with my prosumer. Or maybe it's time to move up a notch to better cam.

Next year I hope to be more prepared too.

[R1szuan]

here is some of my contribution. Kinda blurry but this is the best from my worst shots...












Ur honest and kind feedback is appreciate
Use 75-300MM lens without IS
No tripod
ISO1600

[Painting with light]

stuck in the crowd with no room to play with angles sobs. Thought of using tripod but brought along a monopod instead. End up did not even use it, haha batteries leaked on the flash unit so i depend on available light source instead. looking forward to practice more in this situations. Camera data- shutter 1/40 sec Exposure manual f2.8 iso 2000 focal length 200
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[luntut]

thanks for the nice comments so far. my first time too, and they were all handheld.. i forgot to bring my monopod along.. so missed quite a few shots. and i refusal to change new batteres for my speedlight made me miss even more shots. well, lessons are learnt everyday..

at one point in time, i was almost considering of putting it at manual mode, focus at the point where they will fly over in the air, and when they pass into my viewfinder, i just snap away.. haha but din really have the time to do that.. cos they juz kept coming... a few shots caught me offguard, and I was frankly surprised they turned out some sort ok..

[lsr792000]

Sharp and crisp! Well done.

[VertigoX]

Very nice taken!

I was there, It was HARD to take!!! Squeeze in limited space, e crazy crowds knocking my arms, "SMOKEY", Lightning is... & worst ITs too fast & Furious!!!

X-Fighters Rules, but e tiredness makes me leave after round 2...

[fibredrive]

wow! very nice shots. at least everyone got to catch some of the action. i had to leave 5 minutes after the show started. sigh. if only they started on time...hope they have another next yr.

[shengliang1981]

Great job there. In my opinion, your shots are technically the best so far.

[luntut]

thanks for all the compliments so far...

glad you all liked it.

[luntut]

Originally Posted by VertigoX Very nice taken! I was there, It was HARD to take!!! Squeeze in limited space, e crazy crowds knocking my arms, "SMOKEY", Lightning is... & worst ITs too fast & Furious!!! X-Fighters Rules, but e tiredness makes me leave after round 2...

a lot of people started to leave after round 2... I was one of them.. haha.

Crowd kept pushing forward where I was, till my lens hood kept poking the person in front.