Excellent, John. The Alonso shot belongs in a frame over the bar at a restaurant in Maranello. Although I suspect it would look good in your den as well.
Paul On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:13 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > 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.
