Gartheiniog WRC 14/11/2015

[Mark-Anthony]

Hi All

Well what a long day yesterday was! I left the house at 4am, to get to wales for 7am. Arrived to be greeted with a 2 mile walk to the first stage, not what I expected on my first WRC experience with a bag full of camera equipment. after setting up on a real muddy corner, I got a few shots. then we decided to move, and the heavens opened! an 8 mile walk back to the car in wellys with wet clothes throughout isn't my idea of fun. but, never the less I had an amazing day, and will return next year more prepared.

Here are a few of my favourites, un-edited jpegs off of my camera. I will get round to the raw files later this week.

 

[Adam1987]

all very clear and sharp, i really like the first one shame about the shrubbery have you thought of cloning it out? sorry just read they are unedited JPEGs my bad.

 

[Mark-Anthony]

Thank you. I aim to do some editing to my raw files, so will give cloning a go

 

[Rob E]

Awesome shots there Mark! I look forward to seeing what you can do with the RAW versions

P.S - did you used to be a member on the corsasport forums?

 

[Mark-Anthony]

Thanks Rob. Yeah, I was a member on there. stopped going on there, when I decided to stop spending all my cash on cars haha

 

[G.K.Jnr.]

Great set of images Mark, If this was your first attempt at this sort of photography then you should be proud of your results.

George.

 

[Mark-Anthony]

Thank you, George. It is my first attempt at this sort of thing, hopefully the raw files will be better

 

[Mark-Anthony]

Well, here's a few of my edited files. I found a lot of them were out of focus (I blame the eBay special waterproof bag) .I plan to go next year again, with hopefully a new purchase of a D810 & a 150-600 lens. Not bad for my first attempt at motorsport photography I guess!

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[minnnt]

The RAWs are much better imo mate. Like the Subaru shot the best and also the shot of Jimmy McRae. I like the tree lined road and also the access road in the background.

 

[minnnt]

In the Subaru shot you should clone the twig out imo.

 

[Mark-Anthony]

In the Subaru shot you should clone the twig out imo.

I'll give that a try now, I'm still quite new to photoshop so ill see what i can do

 

[Mark-Anthony]

Patched the twig out and cloned the final bits. thoughts?

 

[minnnt]

Much better. Just makes it a much tidier final image.

 

[RodNeill]

Patched the twig out and cloned the final bits. thoughts?View attachment 50630

Cracking shot with sense of speed. Much better with twig removed.

 

[minnnt]

Just out of interest, what camera and lens are you currently using?

 

[Mark-Anthony]

Just out of interest, what camera and lens are you currently using?

On the day, i had a nikon D7000, sigma 70-200 f2.8 and a sigma 17-50 f2.8. I also had a sogma 2x tc just incase i wasn't close enough haha

 

[minnnt]

Ahh, so did i mate. Keep the faith, the D7k is a fine camera. I had mine paired with an 85mm f1.8 which is my longest lens.

 

[Mark-Anthony]

I had a weatherproof cover for my cam and 70-200, but on it's first use i found that the heat off my hands was steaming it up, meaning i couldn't see through the view finder.