From a race earlier this season in Anaheim…this is Ryan Villopoto. If you have read Places 2 Explore for a while…you know that I am a big Supercross/Motocross fan. I try to go to at least one race a year. Photography and SX/MX are meant for each other. I’ll give Ran Villopoto his due…not my favorite rider (that’s Dungey) …but he is tough to beat this year. Looks like another SX title in 2013 with only 2 races 2 go. Kudos RV2!
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Los Angeles, CA – James Stewart
One last Supercorss shot from Dodger Stadium. The shot above is a wallpaper version of one of my photos. Although I am a Dungey fan, tough to not give credit to Bubba (James Stewart)…he is the fastest racer these days. Tough to beat. He just won Anaheim 2 this past Saturday and leads the Supercorss points in 2011. I wanted to create a cool wallpaper of JS. What I did was simple…
1) My Original shot 2) In Photoshop CS5 – selection tool to select JS and the bike…then Inverse…to focus on background 3) CS5 - Filter-Blur-Motion Blur to background 4) onOne Software Photo Tools 2.6 for sharpening 5) onOne Software Photo Frame (added the circular texture/smoky edge frame) 6) Added the JS Logo
Thats it! Pretty easy! Have fun!!
Los Angeles, CA – Supercross at Dodger Stadium
January 22, 2011was the first ever Supercross event at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA. I was lucky to attend and arrived at 12 PM for practice and was there till about 10:30 PM when the race ended. What a great day! My father-in-law and brother-in-law enjoyed their first race ever! What a race it was at nite! I took tons of photos. All from the stands using my 70-200 lens. During the day I added my teleconverter to get the extra reach and shot most at f/4. The stadium shot above was during the LCQ…using a fisheye hand held. A great view of the course! I still have tons of photos to go thru and will just post them as is. It would take forever to re-work them. You can click this link…Supercross and you can see more shots. It will probably take me another 2 weeks to get the rest up! My daytime practice shots were the best. The nite shots using the D300 at 3200 ISO…just ok. Enjoy!
Pictured above… #20 – Broc Tickle, #1 – Ryan Dungey, #2 – Ryan Villapoto
Supercross 2011 – Ryan Dungey
This Saturday nite in Anaheim starts the new 2011 season of Supercross….I am super pumped! I became a big fan last year after photographing a few Motocross races and this Supercross event in Houston. If you have the Speed Channel…tune in at 9 PM eastern time Saturday for the first race of the season. Above is my fav rider and defending champ…Ryan Dungey. His rook year was the best ever for any MX/SX rider combined. This year will be no easy feat to repeat. Bubba is back, Chad Reed, Villapoto, etc… Should be the best season ever for SX!! I plan to photograph 2 Supercross races this year. The pic above was created using 3 textures. Enjoy! Good luck Dungey!!!
