Wow, that's a great shot, Paul! Perfectly timed, you caught the wheelie, the wrinkled rear slicks, you can see enough of the Vette in the background to know that it's a race.
Love it! cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> Sent: March 5, 2012 3/5/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PESO: Sky HIgh Very cool, Paul! So your flood had a silver (nitrate) lining? On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > A curiosity for a slow Sunday. Click to make smaller. > Shot this with my Speed Graphic and Wollensak 127/4.5 Raptor about 35 years > ago. It was one of the few times I was successful shooting drag cars in > action with that camera. I also got my jerry-rigged Honeywell potato masher > strobe to fire here, as evidenced by the illuminated wheelwell. Film was > Ektachrome 64 4x5. Stop was probably f8. DOF is just barely adequate, as the > nose and tail of the car are a bit soft. Of course, that could also be a > result of the panning. Out of focus background elements have halos. That may > be a result of the wackiness of the lens. The transparency is very dirty. > Found it in the basement while trying to deal with my flood problem. I should > try washing it now that I've at least scanned it. The 16-bit scan that I > generated on my old Epson flatbed was over a gigabyte. I cropped it to about > 770 meg. The pic shown here is the largest that photo.net allows. I was an > ambitious young man, who lacked common sense:-). > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15291993&size=lg -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
