afternoon all.
great idea paddy
still cant get my head around msn
yep juniors photo of brett is the dogs! i havent seen it before, but it captures it perfecly. im with you on working with low shutter speed its a bit of a aquired art but definatly worth the effort, i practice (this may sound a bit sad and you do get some strange looks) by going down to the motorway and spend a few hours panning cars going past and dropping the shutter speed stop by stop with and without tripod.my results depend alot on how i feel on the day, at wildtrax i was bloody cold and suffering a bit with hayfeaver and i think it shows in my pics hence why i was bloody disapointed with the results from what should have been such a great track photograph wise, it normaly takes me at least an hour to get warmed up and start getting stuff that im happy with, it just dident seem to happen at round two.
venue has a lot to do with results imo, for example northampton raceway is fantastic only been there once but i loved, it the mistake i made was being lazy and not changing my shoot point enough hence all a bit samey but i was happy with the results i got, drift uk round 4 im going to do my tits to get more interesting varied shots, silverstone car parks on the other hand is a total bitch and i hate every square inch of the concrete spanker, i just find it so hard to capture anything there.
Does anyone else suffer from vampires? (people you photograph alot and the pics never seem to work) i do....badly, at the moment its steve carter, every time i point a camera at him the pic turns to shit, paz is another i dont think ive 1 decent shot of him drifting, and from my recent efforts i think phil and julie might be going the way the nightstalker. weird theres no real reason for it must be in my head.
what im trying at the moment is low shutter mixed with rear curtain flash, aslong as you track accuratly you get a lovely blur then at the end of the exposure BANG the flash captures the subject, ive been down as low as a 20th and got good sharp results i recon that in the right light you could go as low a 2 perhaps 3 seconds it would look the tits, you would instantly be able to see what was going on. this is one of my favorite pics only for the reson that somthing i tryed actualy worked, its brett on the exit of coram at snet, i dont know what speed he was doing but i amagine 90mph wouldent be far wrong, the settings are. 1/30 f11 rear curtain flash.
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does anyone else find capturing twin drift a total bastard?
this has turned into a bit of a boring essay now, sorry
im glad martins still around, he does take a dam fine picture.