Thanks for that. I think they look pretty good, but I was looking at some other shots from the same event on another forum and they have something about them. I can't define what it is, they just look "better".

Here's a few shots I took last weekend, in the "changeable" weather which included some nice sun and some freezing cold winds, fortunately most of the latter were during Sunday morning when there's no racing.

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proc_IMGP1421. by Mike Edwards, on Flickr

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proc_IMGP1374. by Mike Edwards, on Flickr

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proc_IMGP1348. by Mike Edwards, on Flickr

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proc_IMGP1291. by Mike Edwards, on Flickr

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proc_IMGP1252. by Mike Edwards, on Flickr

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proc_IMGP1199. by Mike Edwards, on Flickr

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web_IMGP1157 by Mike Edwards, on Flickr

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web_IMGP1136 by Mike Edwards, on Flickr

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web_IMGP1017 by Mike Edwards, on Flickr

As always, comments and criticism and advice are all welcome. This time I've decreased the shutter speed to 1/200 or 1/250 for the panning shots - that seems to help with sharpness, but of course loses some of the motion blur effect. The last couple of shots were processed from camera JPGs using a very old copy of Photoshop (which is probably about as new as my PC will run), the earlier ones from raw using Raw Therapee. I might re-do the last few and see if it makes any difference. My head says it should, but my eyes might not agree.

That first shot is very good indeed.

I must try to make the time to get over there at some point.

These are great images, I'd have thought something longer would have been needed.

Yes, as above I very much like 2.

That's an interesting thought re the strap. I saw people at Oulton recently with very long lenses where the strap was only connected to the lens foot, and really didn't fancy that idea. But lens and body would work. Carrying it around does put me off using my longer lens as much as I might.

A lovely set, captures the colours and the narrow streets / tall buildings contrast very well.

True, though I'm not really sure how I should price it. They don't come up in the classifieds very often so it's hard to get much of an idea. It seems a pity for it to sit here hardly-used, though of course another option is that I could, well, use it more.

Typical! Just when I was thinking of perhaps trying to sell my Sigma 50-500 lens on as I hardly use it, someone comes in and swamps the market with them.

I largely transferred to using Flickr instead of PB when all the charges turned up for PB whenever that was. I am hoping I don't have to find another host.

I do find it annoying that Flickr is one of those sites that nags me to change browser because the one I've been using for ages is suddenly incompatible (hint to Flickr: it worked before, so redirect me to the "old" version of the site and I'll live without whatever new features you've added that don't work on IE*), and their "funny" notes while waiting for the uploader to load grate a little.

But I'm generally only uploading stuff to share on forums, some of those forums can't have images uploaded directly, so I don't know about portfolios, other people looking at the images, and so on.

(* I know, probably just don't want to support the older site code).