Photos from Fintray Hillclimb, Sunday 13th May 2007

[johns]

Took over 400 hundred photos on Sunday, trying to learn how to pan moving objects. The vast majority aren't that great, but I did get lucky with a few. The one below is my favourite!

www.hallforest.co.uk/fintray for the remainder.

John

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[4Hero]

Nice pics John! What camera/lens are you using?

[scoobyiain]

really good pic that one

[RA Dunk]

your idea of panning and my idea of panning seem to be two diffrent things, mine involves a packet of bacon two fried eggs and a frying pan lol []

[johns]

Thanks!

I was using a Canon 400D with a Canon 70-200 F4 lens. At 200mm it wasn't quite long enough for some of the early distant shots, and at 70mm I couldn't get the whole car in at the closest point to the track, so hence a lot have only part of the car in shot []

Shot everything in raw, then ran through Lightroom to produce the gallery. 97% of the photos are just the way they came out of the camera with no post-processing at all, but I've adjusted a few of the better ones in Lightroom for exposure etc.

John

[johns]

LOL - my dad's idea of panning is sifting through mud and grit in highland streams and rivers looking for flecks of gold []

[RA Dunk]

LOL - my dad's idea of panning is sifting through mud and grit in highland streams and rivers looking for flecks of gold []

ahhh so thats why youve always got new cars lol [] i just bought a canon 350D my last time at home, maybe you and 4hero can give me a few tips at knockers on the 26th or next weekend at the sprint championship thingy if any of you are going, i might have a wee run down to get to grips with the camera weather providing []

[johns]

I'm still trying to learn how to use my own camera, but happy to pass on any help I can. I went along on Sunday and tried various different settings, and reviewed what worked and what didn't on the LCD screen.

I ended up using it in Tv mode, with the speed set to 1/100th - 1/150th, and ISO of 100 - 400 depending on how much light there was at the time, as faster the shutter speeds I started off with didn't give enough of an impression of movement.

John

[oobster]

Nice pic John

Same with me - I bought a 400D about 4 weeks ago and it's taking a bit of getting used to - never owned any kind of SLR before [:S] 

[terzo neil]

nice picture of wallace menzie in his supercharged busa single seater

 

notice a good few folk i know in the pictures, no picture of johns motor, what day did you go, sat or sun

[johns]

Neil,

was just the Sunday I went, and John was just running on the Saturday.

John

[Rob_D]

Nice shots john considering how close you were on the second set! [] Am away at the mo and haven't even downloaded mine!

[scouk]

Damn!  that's what I call some really nice sharp bright photos!  Well Done!!

 

Still practicing with the camera myself (Canon powershot S2)

 

From the looks of things I was standing about 20m down the hill from you [8-|]

 

Loads more of mine here: www.scouk.net/motorsport/hill-climb/fintray/2007/

Need to sort out a better gallery and get higher res images on there.. [*-)]

[arch]

Took over 400 hundred photos on Sunday, trying to learn how to pan moving objects. The vast majority aren't that great, but I did get lucky with a few. The one below is my favourite!

www.hallforest.co.uk/fintray for the remainder.

John

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John

Did you not get any of John St on saturday sitting stopped reading the paper waiting for the EVo's to catch up. []

[johns]

Archie,

afraid not - could only make it along on the Sunday.

Rob - you'll have to get your finger out and get the photos posted up - you should have more "keepers" than me, as my lens was a bit long for the close up shots and deleted loads of half cars []

John