On 7/2/07, Peter McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I got sick of working weekends and/or renovating, so I went into the > Motor-Ex hot rod and custom car and bike show last Saturday. It was > held in a couple of the halls at the Sydney Showgrounds, which is right > next door to the 2000 olympics arena. A workmate had a car on show so I > wanted to see that, and figured it could be worth taking the trusty > ist-DL along. > > I figured well. It was a good show - lots of high-quality and > imaginative custom engineering on display. Some of the paintwork was > stunning! Like this - > http://picasaweb.google.com/petergly/MotorEx2007/photo#5081854109968582786 > or http://tinyurl.com/2v352v. This was on the bonnet of a door-slammer > funny car. I can sense the noise this car makes from this... > > It was a tricky environment - generally dim, with lots of hot-spots from > display lights. Flash just wrecked everything, so high ISO was the go. > No room for a tripod, but I generally found something to lean against or > was able to kneel down for steadiness. BTW, the airbrushing isn't out > of focus - it was soft in real life too. > > Oh yeah - EXIF: Sigma 18-55 kit lens, 1/15 @ f/5.6, 1600 ISO hand-held. > Focal length 45mm. >
Cool! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
