Whooooshh

[stubbsy]

The second (and better) instalment of my pics from a round of the Offshore Powerboat Challenge held last Sunday in Newcastle (first batch of pics are here). More pics can be found on my SmugMug site here. To see a large version click a pic.

[BBJ]

Peter, bloody fantastic i like them all and well we dont have a lot of boat racing here anymore but yeh looks like nice weather and got some good shots well done stubbsy

[PiroStitch]

love the action shots Peter. I think the first one can be cropped a bit tighter to emphasise the action a bit more.

[ABG]

Great action series Peter. My favourite is the fourth, with my only nit being you've chopped off the bow.

[Bob G]

These are really good stubbsy - well done


Bob G

[Jeff]

Good action great shots.

Jeff

[johnd]

Great shots Peter. I like the 4th best, that boat is almost exploding with power.
Maybe one day they'll get back to Hobart

Cheers
John

[huynhie]

All very nice Peter, I'd say they third photo is my pick of the bunch.

[Mitchell]

I'm not sure what it is about the first two - they are fine captures, but they don't really have a strong impact. For me they display the boat and context, but don't actually give a feel for the situation.

However I think that 3 and 4 do!

I love the third - the ?captain ?driver leaning forward adds to the sense of speed and the boat being urged faster - great shot

I also like fourth - the close up gives a great feel for the huge spray.

[mark]

Peter, I really like the third one nice timing getting the roost of a boat in the background across the entire frame. Looks like it was fun to photograph.

[stubbsy]

Thank you all for your comments. Taking these shots presented a number of challenges - getting the entire boat and wake in frame, getting the %#%$@ thing in focus, dealing with the light (it was mid afternoon & the sun was high in the sky) and, finally, getting a good feel of action in the shot. Using a CP on the lens and getting on top of the panning process helped a lot as did the lens 70-200 VR lens - next time I hope to do better

Wayne - I'll try a tighter crop, thanks

Andrew - tell me about it. As it is I've actually added a bit of bow into the image that wasn't in the shot

Mitchell - trouble is working out what gives that sense of speed. I've been experimenting with tighter cropping and in some cases that seems to have worked.

Mark - 3rd shot is the best of these I got, but I have a few others on my SmugMug site where the other boat is just disappearing off the LHS.

[Simon]

This one nails it - it looks like a big angry BEAST !