Speedway

[VeryFatbloke]

Hi all,
new member here. As mentioned in my welcome post I've had my A7iv for a couple of months and am interested in sports and wildlife. I bought the 100-400 Sony lens when I bought the A7 with a view to attempting to take some decent speedway pictures. Below are some that I took at a meeting a couple of weeks ago. They are as taken, other than being cropped and also some of the colour saturation has been increased but not massively. All feedback very welcome.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 315.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Tim Mayo]

Lovely shots Gary, I've always wanted to try shooting some speedway. A couple seem to have a little more motion blur than I'd like personally but with two riders together that has to be very challenging with the slower shutter speeds! Are you using Mode 2 OSS on the lens?

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Excellent. Used to love speedway back when it was a regular on World of Sport and Ivan Mauger ruled. That's a long long time ago ....

 

[VeryFatbloke]

Lovely shots Gary, I've always wanted to try shooting some speedway. A couple seem to have a little more motion blur than I'd like personally but with two riders together that has to be very challenging with the slower shutter speeds! Are you using Mode 2 OSS on the lens?

Thanks Tim, I need to lower my shutter speed to try and get more motion blur. I'm shooting across the track from outside of the safety fence and no go zone. Unfortunately the meetings are only once a month and the next one is in 10 days time, so I don't get much chance to practice. I'm not using mode 2 OSS on the lens, I'll have to check and see what that does. EDIT. The OSS was set to off on the 100-400 so I've set that to on. When I go the next meeting I'll switch it to mode 2., now I've read the manual and know what it does!

 

[VeryFatbloke]

Excellent. Used to love speedway back when it was a regular on World of Sport and Ivan Mauger ruled. That's a long long time ago ....

Yes, I first started going in 1975 but then had a lull between around 85 and 2004ish. As Kent run on a Sunday afternoon it's ideal for me and it's only 25 minutes from where I live.

 

[Tim Mayo]

Thanks Tim, I need to lower my shutter speed to try and get more motion blur. I'm shooting across the track from outside of the safety fence and no go zone. Unfortunately the meetings are only once a month and the next one is in 10 days time, so I don't get much chance to practice. I'm not using mode 2 OSS on the lens, I'll have to check and see what that does. EDIT. The OSS was set to off on the 100-400 so I've set that to on. When I go the next meeting I'll switch it to mode 2., now I've read the manual and know what it does!

Mode 2 is basically for panning shots like these. It detects the panning direction and corrects vertical camera shake when following shots in a horizontal direction, and corrects horizontal camera shake during following shots in a vertical direction.

 

[VeryFatbloke]

Some images from today's meeting between Kent and Rye House. There was a bit more dirt on the track today so the shale coming off of the back wheel's is more pronounced than last time. I had a go and panning at a lower shutter speed today, with mixed results. None of the crap ones have made it here! Note - edited to insert full size images.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 303.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/60 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 274.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Tim Mayo]

These look great Gary. Especially those at 1/125. Nice work!

 

[VeryFatbloke]

These look great Gary. Especially those at 1/125. Nice work!

Thank you @Tim Mayo The good thing in terms of these meeting is that they are always on a Sunday afternoon so light shouldn't be a problem. I think 1/125 seems to bring the best panning pictures so I may keep working with that shutter speed.

The next meeting is on 21st July with another one the following weekend. I'll see if I can get to a different position around the track and see what results I get from there.

 

[VeryFatbloke]

Ok, so a few from last Sunday's meeting. It wasn't quite so bright but I still managed to get some decent shots (imo!)

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 194.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 303.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 303.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 238.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

 

[VeryFatbloke]

OK, so I was back at Iwade yesterday and there were a mixture of laydown and upright machines racing, although not against each other. I seemed to take more pictures of the uprights but here's a selection of both

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 112.0 mm
• ƒ/13
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/13
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 303.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 306.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 306.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 256.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 297.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 244.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 297.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 125