Frank - the really great thing about this competition is that they are all high school kids. Some teams have participation from their schools, but for the most part, the kids have to find their own sponsors. Most of the teams are from Nebraska and Iowa, but one team came all the way from Wisconsin. I've heard that there are other similar competitions in other parts of the country.
When you walk around and look at the trailers, you can see a big difference in the budgets. gs George Sinos -------------------- [email protected] www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:43 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Wonderful gallery! You really seem to have captured the spirit of the event. > > Were these different colleges and universities competing? I see that cars had > corporate sponsorship in some cases. Must be an expensive "hobby". > > ;-) > > I'm sure the kids will love your photos. > > Cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: George Sinos <[email protected]> > Sent: May 9, 2012 5/9/12 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: GESO - Power Drive 2012 -Big Gallery > > This is a big gallery of photos from Saturday's Power Drive finals. > Normally I try to make much smaller galleries, but this is for the > kids. They spend all year making these electric cars and they all > want to see their team's car and use the photos on Facebook. I don't > think anyone here in PDML will look at everything in the gallery. > > <http://www.georgesphotos.net/Events/Power-Drive-Finals-2012/22848454_PbdhqV> > > These competitions are a lot of fun to shoot. I was joined by four > other members of the Omaha Camera Club. The day starts at 7am with > check-in, safety inspections, performance and braking trials. The > actual races don't start until about 10am and finish around 2pm. It's > non-stop action and fairly spread out. My pedometer clocked over 5 > miles while I was on site. > > If I wasn't a believer in Lightroom for big batches of photos, I > certainly am now. This is the first relatively big job since upgrading > to Lightroom 4. I imported everything into Lightroom on Saturday > evening and made my selection of about 150 finalists on Sunday > afternoon. Monday, I made the final selections, then cropped and > processed what you see in the gallery. After processing a few photos > to see what needed to be done I made a three presets for processing > the remainder. Other than cropping, they could all be processed in > batches and it went fairly fast. The upload to Smugmug took a while. > Like most everyone, my internet provider's upload speed is much slower > than the download speed. > > I'm looking forward to doing this again next year. I always get ideas > about how to shoot better next time while I'm processing the current > batch of photos. > > gs > > George Sinos > -------------------- > [email protected] > www.georgesphotos.net > plus.georgesinos.com > > -- > 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. -- 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.
