yet more Sunseeker...

KeithIOW

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Here's my first attempt at photographing a rally.

** I've now added more to a gallery on my website http://www.motorsportphoto.net ***

C&C most welcome (but be gentle with me, I'm recovering from the loss of a memory card with half of my photos on, no doubt the better ones of course... )

Ringwood South...
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#7
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Wareham...

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#9
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#10 must remember not to stand so close next time...
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Many congratulations to Will Nicolls on winning... The local boy done good.

Thanks for looking

Keith
 
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badgerbaiter said:
loving number 8 a lot... Great action shot and the cowering spectators is the icing on the cake.
apart from the memory card did you have a succesful day?
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Hi Gary,

the day was brilliant. I can't believe how close you can get to the action. The Mk1 and Mk2 escort were just simply awesome, they seem to go everywhere sideways which make for much more 'interesting' viewing.

Cheers

Keith
 
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Some awesome shots! 4+5 are nice, 10 looks quite close? - I bet you got covered? I hope the lens is ok!?
 
Not bad! Some nice dirt trails there, #9 is quite impressive :D

They do all look a little dark and gloomy though... maybe you just picked a stage that was much darker than where we were?

Also, before someone else says it... shutter speeds... now I'm not going to say you are wrong or right actually, there are two things to capture in photos of these guys:

1) Wheel blur, motion blur - slow shutter speeds for this, starting at probably 1/250 or 1/200 downwards. Too fast and the car looks parked.

2) Dust/dirt/mud/rocks/sand/snow thrown up - to catch this in the air you need a fast shutter speed. The faster you go, the more definition the dirt particles will have. Too slow and the muck becomes just a grubby cloud.

You can't really balance those two things I feel, your shots have to be one sort or another.

Anyway, just some technical discussion to try and make at least one thread on this event have something other than "nice shots" in it.
 
desantnik said:
Not bad! Some nice dirt trails there, #9 is quite impressive :D

They do all look a little dark and gloomy though... maybe you just picked a stage that was much darker than where we were?

Also, before someone else says it... shutter speeds... now I'm not going to say you are wrong or right actually, there are two things to capture in photos of these guys:

1) Wheel blur, motion blur - slow shutter speeds for this, starting at probably 1/250 or 1/200 downwards. Too fast and the car looks parked.

2) Dust/dirt/mud/rocks/sand/snow thrown up - to catch this in the air you need a fast shutter speed. The faster you go, the more definition the dirt particles will have. Too slow and the muck becomes just a grubby cloud.

You can't really balance those two things I feel, your shots have to be one sort or another.
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Thanks for the feedback. I was in Ringwood South in the morning when the light wasn't brilliant and being in the midst of a forest didn't help. I then went to the Wareham stage where the light was much better.

Most of the Ringwood ones were taken around 1/160 f5.6 ISO 400. I suppose I could have gone a bit higher on the ISO to help give me an extra 1/2 - 1stop :shrug: I' must admit I'm still learning the relationships between sutter/aperture/iso but I'm graduly getting there. I suppose at least having poor light makes you have to work more to get better pictures

The Wareham ones were taken at 1/500 f5.6 ISO 200 so I think that shows how much better the ligt was on that stage.

Unfortunately I couldn't make it to the later stages in the afternoon when the light seemed even better, much warmer.

Cheers
 
DaveHope said:
Some awesome shots! 4+5 are nice, 10 looks quite close? - I bet you got covered? I hope the lens is ok!?
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just a little bit, but fortunately I took most of the brunt of it. It wasn't as bad as it looks really, and having the big lens hood on the 100-400 helped to protect it.
 
8, 9 and 10 were the standouts for me.
 
some brilliant shots there keith - cheers for a great day mate.

Do as that chap said and download a demo of lightroom from adobe - it seems to being up the morning shots better than PS. will get some of mine up later :)
 
bruceiow said:
some brilliant shots there keith - cheers for a great day mate.
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No problem. It was excellent. I didn't drop one of my memory cards in your car by any chance, I'm missing most of the Wareham stage shots :amstupid:
 
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