In an effort to create a place where people with the same interest can come together and show off their work, ask questions and help each other learn My brother Marty and I have created a site called vehicle photography.com. You can visit the site at http://www.vehiclephotography.com . I hope that you come on over and show off your works in the gallery.

PS, Moderators, I will be advertising it on this site so you will see the banners in a few days once Google approves them.

 

here's a little article using John Thawley as the example. Hope to see you guys there.
http://www.vehiclephotography....p?t=7

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by rcsmith &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">here's a little article using John Thawley as the example. Hope to see you guys there.
http://www.vehiclephotography....p?t=7</TD></TR></TABLE>

I checked out that site and it has good information for aspiring race photographers - especially the tips on getting nice shots at lower shutter speeds. I started out using fast shutter speeds like 1/400 until Mr. John Thawley took me under his wing and showed me the way. That was a year ago and now I usually like shooting at 1/100 for my action shots assuming the car is moving at 60 to 80 mph or so. I will adjust the shutter speed in shutter priority mode accordingly if the subject moves more or less fast. At night, of course I need to bump up the ISO to higher values like 800 to 1600 and run slow shutter speeds accordingly. At those high ISO values, the shots become grainier but thats life.

Thanks for creating a nice website for motorsports journalists and photographers.

 

Mac, ever used neat image? I like it for removing the noise, works wonders on casey's photo's that were taken at night.

 

One thing I don't get about the pictures is they all look crappy quality. There's alot of good cameras and lenses I see but the pictures must be getting reduced quality ?

This one was shot on a 350xt on auto with a 70-300 @ 300mm and set to small fine which is 1.3 MP so it should have been low quality and very soft and in really mixed lighting. A quick unsharp mask standard setting and auto contrast and it lords over the other pictures I've seen on that site

 

your picture looks like the car is standing still. If you actually read why some of the pictures have less quality (ie ISO) then you would understand. Also just reducing the quality of the picture for hosting purposes has alot of benifits.

 

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If I actually read - lol yeah thanks for putting your oppinion first. A picture can still be crisp when using a slower shutter speed to show motion, of course the picture looks like it's almost still, part of the shot was to capture the water on track insted of an unrecognizable grey fog. Or the drivers eyes or a million other things like the texture of the ground

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And to be honest I can't understand what your talking about, it's a site to show car pictures, since the "pictures" in that statement is the most important part there's no need to reduce pictures to those levels of grainyness

 

good luck trying to capture a car coming towards you without making it look like its standing still
i normally bump the shutter speed higher when a car is coming towards me
then lower it back down for them rolling across me

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by : alexander : &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">This one was shot on a 350xt on auto with a 70-300 @ 300mm and set to small fine which is 1.3 MP so it should have been low quality and very soft and in really mixed lighting. A quick unsharp mask standard setting and auto contrast and it lords over the other pictures I've seen on that site



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I shoot an Olympus E-1 with 300mm F2.8 OM 35mm film lens (not designed for the camera). Full manual mode is used because the lens is a manual lens (manual focus only, and it's kind of a guessing game). I'd love to get the image quality up with autofocus ability by going with the digital 300mm F2.8, but at $7,000 it's not an option. So I'll just make do with 15-20 year old lenses in the mean time....

 

Anothor thing to consider with the photos on the <U>Vehicle Photography</U> site is that they are compressed and lose original file integrity.

Two Examples:

1.

A picture of group of ALMS cars at the Houston Grand Prix and hosted on Vehicle Photography:




Same exact file, but hosted on SmugMug:



2.

F430 GT2 taken at the Houston Grand Prix and hosted on Vehicle Photography:



Same exact file, but hosted on Smugmug:




Modified by Vracer111 at 1:19 PM 5/12/2006

 

^^
clearly some difference there.