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Hill Climb Pics

Postby MattyO on Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:13 pm

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Postby Jeff on Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:18 pm

Nice panning shots No1 is my favourite.

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Postby MattyO on Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:21 pm

thank you, i was aiming for decent motion blur while maintaining sharpness on the car.

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Postby colin_12 on Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:38 pm

#1 for me Matty.
Nice to see a little MX5 mixing it with them in #3.
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Postby Raskill on Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:42 am

Nice shots. Number 1 is very good, slow shutter speed, sharp image, good panning technique and colour saturaion.

2 & 3 seems a little soft, 4 is good also.

What setup you using?

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Postby MattyO on Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:23 pm

thanks mate,

i am sure the softness comes from the relative movement of the car in relation to the direction of camera pan, as the car isn't moving directly perpendicular to the panning direction, probably i just had the shutter open too long, but i was going more for the idea of motion rather than freeze frame shots like the yellow monaro.

I only just noticed this, but you can see teh drivers face in the passenger mirror of the monaro... pretty cool i thought.
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Postby the foto fanatic on Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:06 pm

I'm with them. :)

I like #1 - nice panning action, but car body is sharp
- wheels showing lotion blur
- LHS rear wheel off the ground
- exposure seems spot-on
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Postby Ghetto Panda on Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:29 pm

Greats pics. :D
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Postby BBJ on Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:49 pm

Maty, I like these shots a lot and you have done a good job with keep some motion in the wheels. I like #1 and 2 more and not saying there is anything wrong with the others but yeh like the first 2. I know at times these can be a bit uneventfull as they go racing by, but well done.
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Postby daniel_r on Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:08 pm

good pics!

The bit of critique I can offer up is there appears to be a fence or something in the panning blur in #2 behind the Monaro - I pulled the image into photoshop quickly, and a bit of a crop taking out the top 1/4 of the image (just below the 2nd sort-of-horizontal line) cleaned things up nicely... well thats what I reckoned :)
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