DDMC Championship Race Weekend

[Simon Harrison]

Better late than never with these I suppose!

I was also at Croft last weekend for the opening rounds of the Northern Sports and Saloon Car Championship. What a fantastic weekend of racing, not just from the NSSCC, but from the other classes that were racing as well.

#1 I think I've found out why they call it the 'Fun' Cup LOL
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/Galleries/forum/ddmc08/ddmc5.jpg

#2 A very pretty and well driven Lambo
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/Galleries/forum/ddmc08/ddmc7.jpg

#3 They're very photogenic these Fiesta ST's
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/Galleries/forum/ddmc08/ddmc1.jpg

#4 Double race winner Andrew Morrison in his SEAT Leon Cupra
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/Galleries/forum/ddmc08/ddmc6.jpg

#5 Simon Blanckley in an identical car pushing on through Clervaux
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/Galleries/forum/ddmc08/ddmc8.jpg

#6 The beauty of the NSSCC - there's 10 different cars and 9 manufacturers in this photograph!
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/Galleries/forum/ddmc08/ddmc3.jpg

#7 Whoops!
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/Galleries/forum/ddmc08/ddmc4.jpg

All of the pictures were taken with a 1D mk II, and either an 85mm f1.8, or a 120-300 f2.8. There's full galleries from each day of racing on my website: -

Saturday : http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.fotopic.net/c1514096.html

Sunday : http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.fotopic.net/c1515382.html

As usual, any comments or feedback would be most welcome.

Cheers,

Simon.

[chrispons]

Wow! Another A team performance,Simon .
Stunning colours ,sharpness and movement.
If I could take pictures like this I would be a happy bunny,they really bounce out at me.:)
Pons

[GSH]

I had a feeling #1 was coming when you said you knew why they call it the Fun Cup :D

#6 for me please. I may have to dress up as a tree and sneak up to Tower one day ;)

Note to anyone lacking a sense of humour. The above post is a joke. Unlike some photographers i shoot only where i'm allowed to :p

[jim9449]

Top set Simon, perfect;)

[Cadwell]

Very nice, Simon. I'll bet #1 was the only enjoyment to be had from the fun cup though!

[Borbor]

Awesome :) I like #2 and #7

What's the exif on those 2?

[Simon Harrison]

I've never created an animated GIF before, so I thought 'why not have a go?'. So here's my first event animation from my 1D mk II. It's the full sequence of the Beetle getting into the gravel trap in #7. I don't usually have the camera in high speed burst mode, but I was deliberately looking for something like this, so utilised the full fps rate on this occasion. You'll need to give it time to load.

http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/Galleries/forum/ddmc08/test.gif

I doubt it's something I'll do very often, but creating it kept me amused this morning while I muched my breakfast!
Cheers,

Simon.

[chrispons]

That's a bit of fun,Simon,works quite well.:)
Cheers,
Pons

[Simon Harrison]

Wow! Another A team performance,Simon .
Stunning colours ,sharpness and movement.
If I could take pictures like this I would be a happy bunny,they really bounce out at me.:)
Pons

Thanks Pons! I appreciate your comments.

Simon.

[Simon Harrison]

I had a feeling #1 was coming when you said you knew why they call it the Fun Cup :D

#6 for me please. I may have to dress up as a tree and sneak up to Tower one day ;)

Note to anyone lacking a sense of humour. The above post is a joke. Unlike some photographers i shoot only where i'm allowed to :p

Cheers Geoff. The grid girls certainly brightened up Sunday morning - poor bu@@ers were freezing though! I do like that angle at Tower.

Simon.

[Simon Harrison]

Top set Simon, perfect;)

Thanks Jim. Wouldn't go as far to say 'perfect' - there's things I would improve about all of the shots if I could.

Simon.

[Simon Harrison]

Very nice, Simon. I'll bet #1 was the only enjoyment to be had from the fun cup though!

Thanks Glenn, glad you like them!

You know, as in previous years, the Fun Cup was actually pretty good and reasonably entertaining. There was a big grid of evenly matched cars, and some really good battles throughout the field. Ultimately I do find them a bit boring after a while. However, that's not because it's the Fun Cup, but more that it's a 3 hour endurance race. Honestly, I think you could put pretty much any class of car out on track for that length of time for me, and I think I would feel the same way. I much prefer the shorter sprint type races that the NSSCC, Minis and XR2s gave us. Horses for courses I guess!

Cheers,

Simon.

[Simon Harrison]

Awesome :) I like #2 and #7

What's the exif on those 2?

Thanks Borbor. #2 was taken at 1/250s and #7 at 1/320s, both in shutter priority. In both cases, ISO was chosen to give me an aperature of f8 or higher to give me the DoF that I wanted.

Simon.

[BlairM]

Simon - great pics. Had a look through them all on your site and I love the ones of me at Tower, especially in the early part of Sunday's race running 6th with about 5 cars behind me. I just got mugged one lap (which you have a pic of too) cos every other one seemed faster!

Oh and nearly forgot my car looks cracking in the shot you took of it in the paddock. Think I may still have been in my hotel bed at that point..!

[kipper]

Nice shots Simon. Enjoyed the GIF!:lol:

[willy b]

Brilliant shots! how you creat the gif?

[Ian_H]

Great shots Simon, I see you managed to work out how to create the animated gif sorry I couldn't help at the time. Strange that those young ladies covered up as they approached me and Tony, can't think why ;)


Cheers
Ian

[Simon Harrison]

Brilliant shots! how you creat the gif?

Thanks :D. To create the gif, I re-sized the pictures I wanted to use down to 400 pixels, and then used the Animation option in PS. Once I had the timings and picture order set, I then used the save for web and devices option to output the animation as a gif.

Cheers,

Simon.

[Simon Harrison]

Great shots Simon, I see you managed to work out how to create the animated gif sorry I couldn't help at the time. Strange that those young ladies covered up as they approached me and Tony, can't think why ;)


Cheers
Ian

Thanks Ian. I had a play about with PS on Saturday morning and figured it all out. I didn't realise when I originally texted you that you were already out and about for the Jim Clark.

Cheers,

Simon