06-18-04 Buttonwillow PICS

[balmo]

enjoy































more on the gallet pics of my website

[iyceman]

Nice. Looks like the 3rd to last guy almost lost it.

[balmo]

hehehe. this the best pic i took. thats jeff in his 240 coupe
"am i gonna drop dirt it or not? that is the question"

[jaae86]

Paul, great shot!!! I was about to say that as well. Hehehe......hope you had fun riding shotgun with me on one of the sessions.

Thanks Al for another great event! You and Eric made it a pretty smooth day. Good luck at Irwindale this coming weekend buddy!

[MikeDeuce]

Hey you got my good side! (B4, black coupe)... heheh. Nice pics man!

[JackDrift]

Hey, does any one have pics from the 15th at Buttonwillow????

[TRUENOCOUPE]

I have a bunch of pics from past events.

Im just trying to find time to get all up.

Mike - Post your pics.

Al

[MikeDeuce]

Originally Posted by TRUENOCOUPE

Mike - Post your pics.

yes, sir (balmo let me know if you mind):

Originally Posted by MikeDeuce

Some pics that my gf was nice enough to take while we were out there having fun:




heh

[jaae86]

Nice pics Mike! Glad to see you back at the track.

[balmo]

thats some nice pics man!
mike can i ask you some questions?
up to what zoom do you have in you camera?
what shutter speed are you using? i cant seem to find the right shutter speed where in the car is in focus while the backround is blurred.
thanks!

[thx247]

Damn drifters throwing dirt on the track!!!!!1

Next event I'm going to take photos of the track BEFORE we let you guys out there. The surface is soo clean, I swear to god the maint guys must start crying when they go out there to clean things up!

[TRUENOCOUPE]

no. Called Truck Blower.

[MikeDeuce]

Originally Posted by jaae86

Nice pics Mike! Glad to see you back at the track.

Thanks -- I told you I'd see you out there sooner or later . Sarah said you were making it easy to take all those pics of you with all the early sideways entries. Looked really good out there!

Originally Posted by balmo

thats some nice pics man!
mike can i ask you some questions?
up to what zoom do you have in you camera?
what shutter speed are you using? i cant seem to find the right shutter speed where in the car is in focus while the backround is blurred.
thanks!

Thanks for the kind words, I'll pass em on to the gf.
The lens is a 75-300mm, but since the camera's sensor is smaller than a 35mm frame it has an effective range of 120-480mm (1.6 crop factor). Pretty long reach, so it's great for these types of events.

I believe she was using on average, between 1/125-1/200 shutter speeds (i can double check the exif info later to make sure thats accurate), but even with the aperture dialed down to f22 and iso 100 it was so sunny out that it required a neutral density filter to get the shutter speed low enough. And of course, for most of those shots she was panning with the car to keep it sharp and to give the bg some motion blur.

Or were you talking about the pics with shallow DoF? Where the background wasn't motion blurred, but out of focus? For those I think she was just at the longest range of the zoom lens. You can also use the widest open aperture on your lens, but it was way too bright out there that day. There were also mad heat waves that helped blur/distort the background. Man I miss having a car with working AC... heh.

[balmo]

Originally Posted by MikeDeuce

Thanks -- I told you I'd see you out there sooner or later . Sarah said you were making it easy to take all those pics of you with all the early sideways entries. Looked really good out there!



Thanks for the kind words, I'll pass em on to the gf.
The lens is a 75-300mm, but since the camera's sensor is smaller than a 35mm frame it has an effective range of 120-480mm (1.6 crop factor). Pretty long reach, so it's great for these types of events.

I believe she was using on average, between 1/125-1/200 shutter speeds (i can double check the exif info later to make sure thats accurate), but even with the aperture dialed down to f22 and iso 100 it was so sunny out that it required a neutral density filter to get the shutter speed low enough. And of course, for most of those shots she was panning with the car to keep it sharp and to give the bg some motion blur.

Or were you talking about the pics with shallow DoF? Where the background wasn't motion blurred, but out of focus? For those I think she was just at the longest range of the zoom lens. You can also use the widest open aperture on your lens, but it was way too bright out there that day. There were also mad heat waves that helped blur/distort the background. Man I miss having a car with working AC... heh.

thanks for the info man! i just got my digicam and still quite dont know how to make with the effects. when i checked out the info on my pics, the shutter speed was set in 1/1000! thats why everything is "fozen". it was set at "sports" setting anyways. next time, ill put it in full manual and adjust the shutter speed myself.

[MikeDeuce]

Ahhh 1/1000... that would do it Good luck next time!