On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:45:38PM -0500, John Francis wrote:
>
> Mind you, COTA is the best of the modern tracks by a long way, IMO.
> And we had perfect weather, and a great race with actual racing on
> track, and only a couple of miner mechanical incidents. It was even
> possible to get reasonable shots from our grandstand (albeit limited
> to just a single viewpoint, of course), and the track policy limiting
> lenses to at most 10" in length (quite generous, from what I've seen)
> meant that the 60-250 was no problem (and 150mm-200mm was what was
> needed for a single-car shot with a sightline above the fencing).
>
> Pictures will follow at some point, but at the moment I'm moving to
> a new computer (so I can run LR4), and taking this as an opportunity
> to review the way I organise my images. Given my slight tendency to
> procrastinate I have no idea when I'll be set up to process the shots.
As promised (or threatened :-), here are a few images from the weekend.
Despite being limited to essentially just a single viewpoint (and with
internal reflections from the 60-250 showing up in a couple of the shots)
I did come home with some images I'm happy with. I haven't got LR set up
yet, so these are just preliminaries (using Camera Raw in PS Elements).
Probably the best shot I got overall. The guy didn't win the race, or
the championship (although he was still in contention for both), but
that doesn't matter to the Ferrari faithful:
http://www.jfwaf.com/USGP/Alonso.jpg
Here's the guy who did win the race:
http://www.jfwaf.com/USGP/Hamilton.jpg
And here's the guy who won his third straight championship a week later:
http://www.jfwaf.com/USGP/Vettel.jpg
This was the last-but-one race for the most successful F1 driver ever:
http://www.jfwaf.com/USGP/Schumacher.jpg
And this is the guy my wife and I were waving the flag for:
http://www.jfwaf.com/USGP/Button.jpg
All shots taken with the K-5 and the 60-250.
At this point on the circuit the cars are going around 150 - 160 MPH, so
at a shutter speed of 1/320 or so there's enough motion blur to show up
in the background (assuming I get the pan right; if I don't, then the car
doesn't look sharp) - the car moves around 8" during the exposure.
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