I need advice on moving motor bike pix

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On Saturday I'm attending the classic motorbike racing "king of brands" at brands hatch Indy track.

I'll be using. A nikon D5000 with a 70-200mm lens with a lens hood that's detachable if I don't need it. What's the best way to get shots of moving bikes. Has anyone got any advice that I can take along. I'm new to the hobby and this is my first chance to take pix at a "race event"
 
Either a fast shutter speed to freeze the bikes or go slower and pan to include some sense of motion.
 
To het the bike rider in focus but the wheels and background blured to make it look at thought the bike is actually moving I would be useing a shutter speed of around 200 to start with, I started like this to get used to panning and as you get more used to it you can slow the shutter speed down a little further to get more motion blur.
I do not know what the Nikon version is but you will need to set the focusing to continuous, I know on my canon its called AI servo so someone will be along soon to tell you.

You could always try on passing cars to try it out

Leave the lens hood on as it will stop any flare if the sun is strong.

Have fun

spike
 
Thank you both on your help. I did think about heading to a local fastish! Road and practice but wondered how it would be perceived "man on side of road with a camera taking photos as people drove/road past"
 
Hi,

I used to have a D5000 so hopefully I can remember the menu's.......

Set the camera settings as follows:

Focus - AFC (Auto Focus Continuous), there's a picture of a motorbike in the menus I think.
Focus Point - Single, picture of some flowers in the menu's
Metering - Centre weighted (can't remember how it's represented in the menu)

Start with a shutter speed of 1/200 - 1/250 and work your way slower as you go.

For panning shots, pick the motorbike up early by half pressing the shutter button, (you could set the shutter to continuous too if you like) follow the bike and when the bike is alongside you, fully press the shutter and keep panning the camera while the shutter is pressed.

There is a good guide to panning in the Tutorial section, explains it a lot better than I just did :)

Be prepared to miss quite a few shots at first, it takes practice this paning lark.
 
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