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Champ Car

Postby Raskill on Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:04 pm

Sorry folks, but heres a couple of other images from the Motor Festival.

It was great to see the Champ car on the circuit, but for some reason they wouldn't let images be taken from the wall next to the track, so it was a mad dash to the roof of the pit complex for me. :?

The images are all taken with the Sigma 120-300 on a D2h body.

Conditions were overcast, which has helped produce nice saturated contrasty images.

The racing images are taken at 300mm.

Please feel free to comment!!!

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Thanks for looking.

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Postby sirhc55 on Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:40 pm

Great contrast, obviously a very good lens, and photographer. The shutter on the D2H series reminds me of the German MG42 :)
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Postby Yi-P on Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:48 pm

The close up are superb! 8)


sirhc55 wrote:The shutter on the D2H series reminds me of the German MG42 :)


Did you get to shoot with one?? :shock:
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Postby sirhc55 on Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:01 pm

Yi-P wrote:The close up are superb! 8)


sirhc55 wrote:The shutter on the D2H series reminds me of the German MG42 :)


Did you get to shoot with one?? :shock:


AK47 mainly :wink:
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Postby MCWB on Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:14 am

Lovely Alan, particularly the close-ups! Looks like the old Lola chassis rather than the new DP01, but I can understand them not sending a new one out with the first race being tomorrow. Did he do a timed lap? I don't see anything on Natsoft but I'd imagine he'd have smashed the lap record if he'd given it some stick. 8)
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Postby Paul on Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:44 am

Love the 2nd image Alan, great stuff! :D
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Postby Raskill on Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:02 pm

Thanks for the comments folks. It's been a busy few days, but I'm lucky I can come home for a couple of hours here and there.

Not like the other guys!! :lol:
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Postby Kyle on Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:55 am

Raskill wrote:Thanks for the comments folks. It's been a busy few days, but I'm lucky I can come home for a couple of hours here and there.

Not like the other guys!! :lol:


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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:37 am

Very nice, has has been said the closes up are a nice touch!
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Postby Jeff on Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:28 am

Hi Alan
All your shots on the weekend have been good but the Champ car ones I think are the best.
I have only downloaded mine and not really looked at them in detail,things got a bit frantic work wise when we got home but maybe tonight I will find some time.
It was good to catch up.

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Postby tbgphoto on Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:07 am

Nice shots and nice to see Will become the first Aussie to win a Champ car races.
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